Seeing the six women before him, Zhao Fu was somewhat surprised. He knew one of them, while another looked vaguely familiar.
One was Sun Sisi. The other was the female City Lord from the Eastern Azure region. Since she had participated in the campaign to destroy Great Qin, Zhao Fu had previously ordered a City Lord captured alive—and this City Lord was her.
"Who captured her?" Zhao Fu asked with a slight frown, a trace of anger in his voice.
He would not have cared at all if they had captured other women; they only needed to provide phoenix qi. But how had they captured one of his classmates?
Xian Ru looked somewhat surprised and asked, "Your Highness! Are you very familiar with that woman?"
Zhao Fu nodded. "More or less!"
Xian Ru understood and said with a light laugh, "No wonder! I noticed that the phoenix qi on her body was not innate, but caused by acquired circumstances. Now I see that it was because of Your Highness. Whether she is here or not would not make much difference to the phoenix qi. Your Highness may release her, but she has seen what Great Qin is like. For her, that would only bring disaster."
After the barrier walls appeared on all sides, Great Qin had shut down all of its shops in the four regions, fearing retaliation.
Sun Sisi had lost her job as a result, but she had not left the region. Then Great Qin Assassins set their sights on her. Great Qin did not care who someone was—as long as they possessed phoenix qi, they were all seized under Xian Ru's orders and brought to present to their Highness.
When she had first been tied up and brought here, Sun Sisi had been terrified. But seeing the