Hundred Households Officer Liu shuddered in fright, his face beneath his night clothes instantly turning deathly pale. Forcing himself to remain calm, he pulled off his mask and revealed a smile uglier than a sob.
"Marquis Su, what brings you here? I just couldn't sleep tonight, so I came out to enjoy the scenery and get some air."
"Couldn't sleep, so you came out to enjoy the scenery and get some air?"
Su Fei raised an eyebrow, his gaze sweeping over Hundred Households Officer Liu's night clothes, his tone tinged with mockery.
"Do you need night clothes to enjoy the scenery? And you even climbed onto the wall especially to look at it. Is the scenery inside the Thousand Households Office so unworthy of your discerning eye, Hundred Households Officer Liu?"
The barrage of questions left Hundred Households Officer Liu tongue-tied, and he stammered out an excuse.
"It's worthy, it's worthy! Marquis Su, I was just afraid that walking around at night would disturb the others, so I was planning to go outside for a walk."
Su Fei could not be bothered to listen to any more of Hundred Households Officer Liu's nonsense.
He interrupted him outright.
"You were the one who leaked the news that Hundred Households Officer Song was leaving the city to investigate a case to the White Lotus Sect, weren't you? Over all these years at the Thousand Households Office, just how much intelligence have you passed to the White Lotus Sect?"
"How many benefits did the White Lotus Sect promise you altogether?"
When Hundred Households Officer Liu heard Su Fei mention this, his expression changed drastically. Knowing he could no longer conceal it, a flicker of panic flashed through his eyes.
He wanted to turn around and flee.
But he had underestimated Su Fei far