The Lady of the House, a Girl Like a Fox

By the time Su Che left Shi Chibao, the sky had grown dim. Rather than go to the Circuit Censorate to attend to business, he headed straight home.

Captain Shi had been brimming with so much gloom that Third Young Master Su felt he needed to invite Lady Snow over for a few games across the board to set himself right.

As reports gradually came together, Su Che felt he had caught hold of the main thread.

Someone like Yue Luan had to come from somewhere. The Devil Sect, the Sword Palace, even one of the great Mystic Gate sects were all possibilities. Su Che assumed a force stood behind him.

Shi Chibao had lent that little courtyard to Wang Jian—or rather, to Lady Xie. That meant the woman from the Chen Commandery Xie Clan had ties to the force behind Yue Luan.

Whether this reflected the will of the entire Langya Wang Clan and Chen Commandery Xie Clan, or was Lady Xie's doing alone, did not matter. What mattered was that this force seemed deeply connected to the Great Liang Court and had remained hidden behind the scenes all along.

Su Che did not consider himself especially well-informed. Still, he came from the Duling Su Clan and commanded the Imperial Demon Hunters in his region, yet he had never heard of a force with ties to the court.

That was rather strange.

He remembered that Lady Xie had always been well-informed. She had been the one to warn him when Shikshananda intended to move against him.

Everything around Prince of Wuling's misfortune had carried the scent of a conspiracy, too. It all seemed to have been arranged in advance.

If not for the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden, that ultimate wild card, Su Che might already have been dead, and