"Mr. Gai, please sit!"
"Jing Ni, serve tea!"
Seated in his chair, Qing Mo raised a hand toward Gai Nie in a remote gesture of support, then invited him to sit before him.
"Thank you, Imperial Preceptor!"
Gai Nie nodded lightly. He slowly sat opposite Qing Mo and laid his sword horizontally on the table.
When Jing Ni placed a cup of hot tea before Gai Nie, the Ghost Valley disciple softly thanked her as well.
The fact that Jing Ni, once a top Heaven-ranked assassin of Web, had become the personal maid of the Qin State's Imperial Preceptor was no longer a secret.
Ever since Qing Mo had saved Jing Ni, Zhao Gao, the current master of Web, had immediately followed Qing Mo's instructions upon receiving the news and destroyed every piece of information regarding Jing Ni within Web.
As for Jing Ni's past betrayal of Web, he never mentioned a single word of it, as though it had never happened.
As a dog attached to absolute power, Zhao Gao understood clearly that Qing Mo's words were absolute within Qin State.
Though he had now earned some favor from the King of Qin, Qing Mo, the Imperial Preceptor, stood equal to the king. If Qing Mo truly wanted him dead, he would not even need to notify the King of Qin.
Moreover, Zhao Gao, being a shrewd man himself, had clearly sensed over the years that an extremely secretive and powerful force had appeared at the King of Qin's side.
Though Zhao Gao did not know what this force was, he knew perfectly well that the power in the King of Qin's hands far surpassed Web and could even crush the entire organization with ease.
That enormous force Zhao Gao had vaguely sensed was the Black Ice Platform, personally