Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
Every step was exceptionally arduous, and every footfall was so heavy.
Just as Cui Jian had said, he and Li Mu Yang had been friends since their time in Jiangnan.
Regardless of what Li Mu Yang thought, at least that was how he saw it. Apart from Li Mu Yang, he actually did not have many friends with whom he could bare his heart. He did have plenty of drinking-and-womanizing friends.
Otherwise, he would not have seen through Li Mu Yang's disguise at the gates of Tiandu City last time without exposing his identity on the spot, nor would he have helped take care of Li Mu Yang's family while Li Mu Yang was far away at Starry Sky Academy.
Of course, he had mainly helped look after Li Mu Yang's younger sister.
Yan Xiangma knew how the Lu Family had cared for Li Mu Yang, and he also knew how Li Mu Yang and Li Sinian felt about the Lu Family.
If he killed Gongsun Yu, how would Lu Tianyu, Li Mu Yang, and Li Sinian view him?
But if he did not kill her, how could he satisfy Cui Jian? How could he answer to the Cui Family?
The sea of officialdom rose and fell, with murderous peril at every step.
Back then, when Chu Xianda had taken his hand and said those few words, he had thought it was a private conversation between the two of them, a secret buried deep in their hearts, something that would never reach anyone else's ears.
Yet when he told his grandfather about it the next day and went with him to see his maternal grandfather, the latter already knew the entire matter. He merely chuckled and told Yan Xiangma not to take it to heart.
At that