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Cang Yinyue saw the newcomer and calmly cupped her hands in greeting. "Greetings, Catcher Ji. I've just returned from handling a case and happened to be gathering with a friend here."

Hearing this, Ji Feiyun glanced at Li Musheng, his eyes narrowing slightly. "I'm used to entering through windows. I didn't disturb you two, did I?"

Cang Yinyue slowly shook her head and pointed at the wooden wall beside them. "I presume Catcher Ji is here for Guan Shanxue. She's next door."

Seeing this, Ji Feiyun sighed softly and lowered his voice. "That young lady always has to stir up trouble whenever she comes to Shangyang City, and she always picks on me. If Divine Catcher weren't looking out for her, I wouldn't want anything to do with her."

Cang Yinyue smiled. "Catcher Ji, you don't understand a woman's heart. She deliberately targets you like this—I'd guess she's taken a fancy to you."

Ji Feiyun chuckled and shook his head. "The person she's taken a fancy to isn't me, but someone else."

Just then, a sharp stream of icy qi suddenly sliced sideways through the wooden wall next door, its momentum undiminished as it slashed directly at the three people in the room.

At the same time came Guan Shanxue's voice, cold as frost. "Ji Feiyun, since you're here, get over here at once."

"No."

Ji Feiyun gave a low shout and instantly flashed forward, thrusting both palms out horizontally. Surging true qi transformed into a gale that blocked the attack before Cang Yinyue.

The icy qi and fierce wind collided and dissipated, but the shockwave sent the surrounding tables and chairs flying, shattering them into fragments midair.

"Guan Shanxue, you're becoming more and more excessive."

Ji Feiyun spoke in a deep voice, drawing in his true qi and slowly retracting his jade-like palms glowing with blue light.

Yet when his peripheral vision fell upon Li Musheng behind him, his eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly.

Li Musheng was clearly standing somewhere different from before. He had not even noticed when the other man had moved?

At that moment, Guan Shanxue, dressed in white whiter than snow, lightly tapped the ground with her foot and flashed over the shattered wooden wall into Ji Feiyun's private room.

"Since when did you people from the Imperial Secret Police become the Fifth Prince's lapdogs?"

A mocking look appeared on Guan Shanxue's fair and lovely face as she stared coldly at Ji Feiyun.

Ji Feiyun quietly withdrew his sidelong glance at Li Musheng and frowned. "Shanxue, what do you mean by that?"

Guan Shanxue gave a cold snort and looked toward Zhou Chuan and the other two, who had been frozen in the next room by Ice-Cold True Qi. "They're from your Imperial Secret Police, aren't they?"

"Of course."

Ji Feiyun nodded and glanced at the three men. "But why did you attack them?"

"If one of them carelessly disturbed you and upset you, I can apologize to you on their behalf."

A cold smile appeared on Guan Shanxue's face. "They secretly followed this wastrel the entire way, intending to seize some leverage against him and use it to threaten that Vice Minister of Revenue into abandoning the Seventh Prince for the Fifth Prince."

"I heard them say it with my own ears, and that is precisely what they did. What excuse do you have for this?"

Ji Feiyun's expression changed. He swept his gaze around the room and lowered his voice. "Guan Shanxue, don't speak recklessly in this kind of setting, or even Divine Catcher may not be able to protect you."

"Ji Feiyun, do you think I'm talking nonsense?"

A flash of anger crossed Guan Shanxue's eyes. She was about to strike, but Ji Feiyun promptly pressed down her hand with his scabbard and whispered, "No matter what you heard, this is not the place to talk. Besides, I know you have always admired that false prince, but times have changed."

"If you don't want to drag Divine Catcher into prison, I advise you to stop while you can today!"

After saying that, Ji Feiyun slowly withdrew his scabbard.

Guan Shanxue moved her lips, but in the end, her willow brows knitted tightly as she fell silent. Anger and helplessness appeared on her lovely, creamy-white face.

Seeing that she no longer spoke, Ji Feiyun visibly breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to Cang Yinyue and said, "Catcher Cang, please do not let today's matter leak out."

Cang Yinyue's gaze deepened, and she nodded lightly. "Has Catcher Ji forgotten my identity? As a fellow member of the Imperial Secret Police, I naturally know what to do."

Hearing this, Ji Feiyun gave a slight nod and turned to look at Li Musheng. Cang Yinyue immediately said, "Rest assured, Catcher Ji. This concerns His Highness the Fifth Prince and the Imperial Secret Police. My friend knows what matters more and what matters less. Today's matter will surely rot in his stomach."

Ji Feiyun pondered for a moment, studying Li Musheng for a while before saying, "You do not seem to be from the imperial capital. In all things, listening to Catcher Cang is likely the right choice."

With that, Ji Feiyun turned and walked toward Zhou Chuan and the other two in the neighboring room, while true qi surged through his upturned palm.

With one palm strike, as though a spring breeze had swept past, ice and snow melted away.

The Ice-Cold True Qi on the three men dispersed at a visible speed, and they soon returned to normal.

Zhou Chuan and the other two all breathed a sigh of relief. Moving their stiff bodies, they approached Ji Feiyun, about to speak, only for him to raise a hand and stop them.

At that moment, a constable hurried over and said anxiously, "Vice Minister of Revenue Gao Changrui has brought a group of people this way. They'll reach the ground floor any moment now."

Hearing this, Ji Feiyun looked back at Zhang He, who was huddled in a corner, then waved his hand to signal Zhou Chuan and the other constables to leave.

He himself returned to the private room where Li Musheng and the other two were.

"Do you want to return to Six Fans Gate Headquarters with me?" Ji Feiyun asked.

Seeing Guan Shanxue keeping a cold face and saying nothing, he shook his head again. "Don't cause any more trouble, or even Divine Catcher won't be able to shield you."

As he spoke, Ji Feiyun walked toward the window. Before leaping out, however, he looked back at Cang Yinyue with meaningful eyes. "During the days Catcher Cang has been away, Head Constable Fu has missed you dearly and kept talking about you. Come back and see him soon."

With that, Ji Feiyun's figure vanished through the window.

Li Musheng turned to Cang Yinyue and asked curiously, "Who is Head Constable Fu? Your father? Or your mother?"

Cang Yinyue shot him a glance. "My fiancé."

Li Musheng raised a brow. Beside him, Guan Shanxue swept her gaze over Li Musheng's handsome face, then suddenly sneered. "You already have a fiancé, yet you still come out to seduce pretty boy toys. Cang Yinyue, you truly have no shame."

At those words, a cold gleam flashed in Cang Yinyue's eyes, killing intent erupting. She reached toward her waist.

But halfway through, she suddenly stopped and said coldly, "I can't be bothered to stoop to your level."

Then she called to Li Musheng beside her. "Let's go."

But at that moment, Ice-Cold True Qi surged from Guan Shanxue's fingertips as she suddenly struck, pointing a finger at Cang Yinyue.

Yet to Guan Shanxue's surprise, before that finger could even extend, the true qi within her body was instantly sealed, and she could not move an inch.

"When had... Cang Yinyue become this formidable?"