Luo Jinyao, Yu Wenqiu, Nuo Tao...
Damn it! Why wasn't she at the Northern Border? Why had she come back early?!
If she were still at the Northern Border, all she would have to do was bring out the savings she'd accumulated over more than a decade, and Gu Chengming would surely agree to dual cultivate with her!
Aaaaaah, I want an assignment at the Northern Border right now! I want to die.
She scrimped and saved every day, amassing such a fortune precisely so it would come in handy at a critical moment, didn't she? Yet when the time truly came to "generously part with her wealth for a righteous cause," she was a thousand miles away.
The atmosphere in the side hall was frighteningly oppressive.
Just then, someone gently pushed open the hall doors.
A young man in an Imperial Observatory uniform poked his head inside and entered, holding a letter. "Senior Sister? Are you busy?"
It was her junior brother, Zhou Hui.
Xu Huaiyi took a deep breath, instantly reining in her resentment before it could spill over, and resumed her usual composure.
She tilted her head slightly, her voice calm. "What is it?"
Zhou Hui came forward and placed the letter on the table. "Oh, nothing important. I went to the city gates on an errand just now and heard a few Town Night Division officers chatting. Apparently, Gu Chengming is back. He should be back in Jishan Ward by now..."
Before he could finish.
Whoosh!
Xu Huaiyi, who had been sitting calmly in her chair, shot to her feet so abruptly that she knocked over the teacup beside her.
Tea spilled across the desk, soaking the file on the Joyful Union Sect.
Zhou Hui jumped. "S-Senior Sister?"
Xu Huaiyi wasn't looking at him. Her eyes