"Which one is Mao Yongcheng, the Palace Affairs Office's chief eunuch?"
At the sharp rebuke, Manager Mao of Prince Huan's Estate—already sweating so profusely that the ground beneath him was wet—went limp and collapsed to the floor.
Though no one answered, the eunuch in the azure python-patterned official robes immediately knew who Mao Yongcheng was.
"Take him!"
At the low shout, two eunuchs flashed out from behind the azure-robed eunuch and lunged straight at Manager Mao of Prince Huan's Estate.
Seeing that someone had come to arrest him, terror deepened in Mao Yongcheng's eyes, yet they were filled with unwillingness. He knew perfectly well who had come for him.
It was the Left Grand Governor of the Punishment Department within the Great Zhou Internal Directorate.
The Punishment Department of the Great Zhou Internal Directorate was a place that struck terror into the hearts of every eunuch. Of those taken inside, scarcely any emerged whole.
Even more fatal was the identity of the eunuch in azure python-patterned official robes before him.
The Punishment Department had two chief governors: the Left and Right Governors of the Punishment Department.
Under normal circumstances, these Left and Right Governors rarely made arrests within the Internal Directorate themselves. Only when the Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace personally gave the order would they be dispatched.
In other words, the Left Grand Governor of the Punishment Department coming personally to arrest him meant that Grand Supervisor of the Inner Palace Yu Chaoen had spoken.
One could well imagine Mao Yongcheng's terror.
But even an ant stole life.
Mao Yongcheng had no desire to be silently dragged into the Punishment Department, then silently turned into a lump of rotting flesh.
In his desperation, Mao Yongcheng suddenly raised Prince Huan's Golden Token in his hand and roared hysterically, "Prince