Having sorted out his thoughts, Tang Yu asked an Embroidered Uniform Guard for directions and quickly found the office of that Pacification Commissioner.
After informing the Embroidered Uniform Guard standing guard at the door, Tang Yu stood outside and waited.
After waiting for quite a while with still no movement inside, Tang Yu simply sat cross-legged by the door and began cultivating.
Fortunately, after nearly two hours, the Embroidered Uniform Guard from earlier ran out, looking terribly anxious as he said, "His Excellency the Pacification Commissioner was busy just now. Please come in, sir."
"It's fine."
Tang Yu patted the man on the shoulder, then entered the room and finally met his superior.
The man looked utterly ordinary, the sort who would vanish into a crowd and never be found again. Yet after serving in the Embroidered Uniform Guard for so long, his gaze was exceptionally sharp, carrying a sense that he could see straight into one's heart.
He sat in his chair, slowly sipping tea while sizing Tang Yu up with the same gaze.
When he saw Tang Yu's handsome face, one likely unmatched in all of Kyoto, he snorted inwardly and asked with some displeasure in his voice, "You're the newly arrived Tang Yu, Tang the Thousand-Household Commander?"
"That's right."
Sensing the man's intense hostility, Tang Yu's tone was far from friendly as well.
At times like this, the more one showed weakness, the more the other side would walk all over them.
Liu Yirui gave an "Oh" and said nothing further, lowering his head to continue drinking tea as if Tang Yu before him were merely air.
Neither spoke again, yet the tension between them was already thick.
Tang Yu showed him no courtesy and asked bluntly, "Lord Liu, it seems you have some issue with me?"