"Commander Xu, what position does His Majesty want to give me?" Luo Qian kept pulling faces along the way. "The emperor's mind is impossible to fathom." Luo Qian curled his lip. "He must want me to replace you as Chief Commander of the Imperial Execution Bureau. Why else would you look so unhappy?" "You!" Xu Hu flared up, but just as he was about to let loose, he caught Luo Qian's mischievous grin. The bastard was teasing him again. He drew a deep breath and kept telling himself, Don't get angry. Don't get angry.
Xu Hu gave him a sudden tug, and they were standing outside the Eastern Heaven Gate of the mist-shrouded Celestial Palace. A palace attendant had been waiting there for them. At the sight of them, he hurried over. "My lords, you're finally back! Come with me to see His Majesty, quickly." Luo Qian found it strange. What could be so urgent?
As Luo Qian entered the Soaring Firmament Treasure Hall, he heard someone shouting from afar. "Come out! I know you're there! I saw you when I came in. Don't think you can hide from me again!" He knew that voice well. Who but Zhu Ke'er, one of his prospective wives, would dare make such a racket in the Soaring Firmament Treasure Hall?
Now Luo Qian understood why the Supreme Pure Emperor had been in such a hurry. But when he glanced at Xu Hu, surprise flashed across the man's face too. Evidently, that little troublemaker Zhu Ke'er had not arrived before Xu Hu left.
Luo Qian quickened his steps and caught Zhu Ke'er by the arm as she searched the hall for the Supreme Pure Emperor. "Ke'er, stop fooling around." She held a curved, gold-painted pole like a walking stick and was poking into the