"Carry out the Lord's orders." Feizhan and Feili turned and left.
Wuxiang extended a finger and gently snuffed out the candle flame. "It was finally coming."
In the Hall of Peace and Purity, Gu Hui sat beside his desk, with memorials piled high before him. Fortunately, his mental strength was formidable; otherwise, he might have died young from overwork.
He then took out a letter from among the books at his side. Its contents had come from Beyond Heavens.
As Beyond Heavens had been rather active, he had naturally made preparations long ago, sending someone there as a spy many years before. That person now held a high position.
"Heh, Beyond Heavens, Ye Dingzhi... I wrote to you before. Could you escape Beyond Heavens' schemes?"
After reading the letter, he held it over the oil lamp and burned it.
To him, the outcome would not affect him either way.
If Ye Dingzhi was plotted against by Beyond Heavens, it had nothing to do with him. There was no enmity between him and Ye Dingzhi.
If Ye Dingzhi escaped Beyond Heavens' schemes, he was merely someone living in seclusion outside Gusu City. That would affect him even less, seated as he was upon the imperial throne.
As for the Demonic Cult's eastern expedition, it presumably would not happen again.
Zhuoqing and Jinxuan stood quietly to his left and right, watching their emperor's actions as though they had seen nothing.
As for guarding the imperial mausoleum, Gu Hui had not obeyed that arrangement. Instead, he had kept the previous emperor's Five Grand Eunuchs by his side.
Together with the Five Grand Eunuchs belonging to him as the new emperor, there were ten in total.
However, the previous emperor's Five Grand Eunuchs held no official posts. They merely remained at his side,