Early that morning, inside an elegant villa.
Zhu Meng's heavily bearded face was livid. He smashed the expensive teacup in his hand to pieces, and the sight of his subordinates standing before him with bowed heads, unable to utter a word, only fueled his anger.
"Useless! Every last one of you is useless!"
Zhu Meng pointed at the subordinates before him and demanded furiously.
"A snake demon that enormous just vanished? I told you to watch the Totem Clan. What the hell were you doing? If this plague hadn't kept me tied up, I would have given you this dressing-down yesterday!"
His subordinates could barely raise their heads under his scolding. Some were frightened, some ashamed, and some resentful...
In the end, Palace Guard Captain Wu Pingjing stepped forward and spoke respectfully.
"Councilor, please calm down. We did keep a close watch on every important member of the Totem Clan, as you instructed. But we never expected them to entrust the Totem Black Snake to a woman in their clan named Tang Yue."
"Although she is an Advanced Mage, she isn't particularly outstanding within the clan, so we didn't immediately assign anyone to keep a close watch on her..."
"What?!"
At that, Zhu Meng clenched his fist and said angrily.
"As a Judgment Officer, this Tang Yue dared openly defy me, a councilor? Even if she is Chief Judge Tang Zhong's own niece, my arrest warrant still stands. If the Hangzhou Judgment Hall or the Lingyin Temple Judgment Hall objects, arrest everyone who objects along with her!"
He had never expected the plan he had prepared so carefully to be derailed by a fairly unremarkable woman. What an infuriating mess!
"Councilor, there's more. A young man named Mo Xie is accompanying Tang Yue."
At that moment, Wu Pingjing reported another