Wang Yue saw Fang Duobing looking envious, so he put on a mysterious air and said, "Si Gu Jian! I offered to teach you back then, but you refused to learn."
Fang Duobing looked at him with disdain. "If you don't want to tell me, then just say so. How much do you worship my master that you even renamed your sword technique after him?"
Wang Yue was speechless. He didn't feel like dealing with this blockhead. He'd actually wasted a chance to learn. If he'd offered the same opportunity to Ning Que, that kid would never have passed it up.
He turned to look at Yu Qiushuang in the room and casually reminded her, "City Lord Yu, your elder sister is now helpless, and she's no longer fit to rule this city. Aren't you going to come out and take care of Jade City's affairs?"
Yu Qiushuang had seen that her elder sister hadn't cared whether she lived or died, and had left her to escape alongside the others in such dire straits. She hadn't expected things to take such a turn. Now she was the one who would become the city lord.
She wasn't the sort of person who knew nothing about the world. After only a brief hesitation, she found paper and brush in Yun Jiao's room and quickly wrote a letter. Then she called out coolly, "Guards!"
At her call, more than a dozen people came rushing into the courtyard. They dropped to one knee and said respectfully, "At your service!"
Yu Qiushuang nodded, then said sternly, "Send a party of men to escort Young Master Zongzheng to the Zongzheng Family, the residence of the current prime minister. Take this letter with you and explain that my engagement to Zongzheng Mingzhu is annulled. If Zongzheng Mingzhu