Wei Wenda looked at the young woman before him.
In her cool eyes, there was now a trace of tension she herself had not noticed.
Silence stretched for a long while.
At last.
Wei Wenda slowly uttered four words.
"Colluding... with demons."
A flicker of astonishment crossed Jiang Yuechu's eyes.
"Colluding with demons?"
How could that be possible?
In her memory.
Jiang Xun was rigid, conservative, even somewhat pedantic.
His greatest pleasures were tending to flowers and plants or reading.
Would a man like that collude with demons?
And how could he even do such a thing?
"When I first saw the case files, I thought the same as you."
Wei Wenda sighed.
"May I ask, Duke Wei?"
Jiang Yuechu raised her eyes, her voice a few degrees colder than before.
"What demon?"
Wei Wenda gave a bitter smile but did not answer directly.
He rose and walked over to the bookshelf, then turned an inconspicuous vase.
Click, click—
A hidden compartment opened.
He took out a yellowed case file and gently set it on the desk.
"Sixteen years ago."
"On Lantern Festival Night, every household was lit with lanterns."
"Demonic energy surged through Chang'an City."
"That night, a Great Demon somehow evaded the Demon Suppression Bureau's surveillance and made its way into the Imperial City."
Jiang Yuechu knitted her brows.
Chang'an was where the dragon energy of the world converged.
Ordinary demons would have their strength suppressed just by approaching, let alone entering.
How could they possibly dare to enter Chang'an?
And the Imperial City, no less?
As though he had noticed the confusion in Jiang Yuechu's eyes, Wei Wenda explained, "That was one of the questions surrounding the case from the beginning."
"Chang'an lies beneath the Son of Heaven's feet, where the Great Tang Dragon Vein converges. The