After all, the Brocade Guard specialized in gathering information and eavesdropping, which perfectly suited Zilan Pavilion's role.
And ever since they joined Zilan Pavilion, its way of doing things had changed somewhat.
It had gone from having a group of beauties gather intelligence through "socializing" to simply drawing their blades in the middle of the night and pressing them against their targets' throats.
After all, while the beauty trap was useful, sometimes a blade was simply more efficient.
What was more, the Brocade Guard had mastered both the "Great Memory Recovery Technique" and the "Great Interrogation Technique."
Once they confirmed a target was suspicious, they didn't have to worry about him refusing to talk.
"So that's how it is..." Qian Renxue nodded thoughtfully, then lowered her head and continued looking through the booklet.
The more she read, the tighter her brows furrowed.
A moment later, she closed the booklet and spoke gravely:
"If what this booklet says is true, then the Heaven Dou Empire is rotten to the core."
She listed the problems one by one. "The military, politics, business—there are problems in almost every area."
"Either they're Xue Ye's die-hard loyalists or they're taking bribes and embezzling. The truly clean and capable ones can be counted on one hand."
"Then let's clean house from top to bottom," Zhao Linchuan said, picking up the thread. "This was already a country that brainwashed ordinary people by using noble bloodlines."
"Can you really expect the officials governing it to be honest?"
"Then who will govern the country?" Qian Renxue frowned. "It's easy enough to kill them all, but what happens after that? Who will handle the affairs of state? Who will manage the provinces? You can't expect me to run everything alone, can you?"
"The Brocade Guard can temporarily take over the