Zhao Xianda was not a man of backbone.
Though he spent all day preaching loyalty to the ruler and devotion to the country while training the Shadow Guards, telling them to let their bodies be smashed to dust, Pan Long had only needed to snap one of his fingers to make him fold.
His memory still stopped at the moment Pan Long captured and interrogated him, and the broken tip of his little finger still hurt.
So he confessed readily, without concealing a thing.
According to him, he had accepted a commission from Qian Changkuan, a vice minister of the Ministry of Justice, to handle some of the ministry's long-standing cases. They were all dirt left behind by the Wind Patrol Envoys and had sat in the ministry's files for more than a decade, some even longer. This time, the ministry intended to clear them out properly and see that the victims received justice.
At the words "received justice," many people looked toward Yang An. She gave a Cold Snicker, her face full of disdain.
Clearly, she had no need for this "justice."
Zhao Xianda's job was to deal with cases like hers.
He came to Xiangping City, found Yang An, and used the Great Freedom Heavenly King Spell to control her. He made her berate Shang Man in a restaurant until he could not get a word in, then sent her to kill herself at the relatively quiet Prefectural Yamen.
He chose the Prefectural Yamen specifically to avoid running into a True Person Grandmaster.
A True Person held the yamen of You Province, where both the Marquis of You Province and the Provincial Governor worked. The Xiangping County Yamen was crowded with all sorts, and extraordinary people from the Three Teachings and Nine Schools turned up there from time