"Me?" Nian Qiuyan stopped writing and looked up at her. "Since the thing has already been retrieved, then as far as I'm concerned, this matter is over."
"Over?" Yu Sui asked, as if she hadn't understood.
Nian Qiuyan smiled. "The County Princess may not know, but people like us only act on orders. Without instructions from above, naturally we do nothing."
He called Yu Sui the County Princess, as though discussing official business with her.
Yu Sui stared at him without blinking and got straight to the point. "With Senior Martial Brother's temper, he won't tolerate the fact that you're actually part of the Lan Corpse Organization. Even if his good-and-evil-tangled nature could tolerate it, Zhongli Shan and the others wouldn't."
The Zhongli Family had spent years leading troops on campaigns. Sometimes they encountered insidious methods, such as using Lan Poison to control their soldiers.
It wasn't meant to make them addicted in a short time. Rather, the Lan Poison destroyed their Five Elements Qi completely. After being poisoned, they would see hallucinations and then be goaded into killing one another.
Even if they were lucky enough to survive, the burst of strength would leave them terribly weakened inside. At that point, death would still be their only way out.
Zhongli Shan would certainly never accept that his good brother was a Lan Corpse who manufactured and sold Lan Poison.
Lan Corpses were evil personified. Anyone with a sense of justice wouldn't tolerate them.
Yu Sui thought Xing Chun, Kong Yiyi, and the others weren't the sort to get along with Lan Corpses.
But if Nian Qiuyan said he had no choice and had deceived them while keeping it all secret, then it was hard to say.
If Nian Qiuyan wanted to, he knew how to make those people soften