(￣︶￣) It's all right, you can go now
While Yangzhou was in turmoil over the frequent assassination attempts carried out by Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, Tanchun, and Xueyan, the Divine Capital, thousands of miles away, remained completely unaffected.
The only people who'd received reports about the assassination of Yangzhou's prefect and certain local officials and gentry were the relevant offices of the Heavenly Court. They'd stamped the documents as read and passed them up to the appropriate authorities to deal with. The immortal officials here hadn't given the matter much thought. They'd simply gone on with their music and dancing, carrying on exactly as before.
No one cared whether some minor prefect sent out to the provinces lived or died, especially in a remote region like Jiangnan.
After all, an imperial envoy immortal historian had died just the other day. What was one more prefect and a few petty officials?
In any case, aside from the handful of offices handling the matter, such a minor incident couldn't possibly affect the Divine Capital. Even ordinary people there had no idea it had happened!
Wasn't that right?
The Food Ward was still bustling with people, as lively as ever.
And one of the little troublemakers behind it all, the Great Immortal, was currently stuffing her face in an elegant private room at a restaurant called "Drunken Immortal Never Returns."
"..."
(￣~￣) Chew!
"Ah!"
(╯▽╰) So delicious~~
That's right!
Annie, the one and only, the all-powerful Flame Immortal, was busy eating her fill!
She'd passed and finished the Immortal Examination's Assembly of Immortals trial ahead of schedule. Then she'd left clones of Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, Tanchun, and Xueyan at Rongguo Mansion, making all the necessary cover arrangements and establishing alibis. With nothing left to occupy her—not even teaching her disciples—she'd naturally returned to her