"Lord Zhang, are you nervous?"
Although no one from the Yuan Family had appeared in the alley yet, Yuan Tian suddenly asked this question.
Nervous?
Zhang Yuanrang did not know how to describe what he felt. He was not actually nervous; if anything, he felt rather relaxed.
"You don't need to call me lord. I'm only a mortal."
Zhang Yuanrang shook his head. Behind him stood an empty courtyard, without another soul in sight.
"Being able to work under you was an honor in its own right. I call you lord out of respect for your past. You were the imperial son-in-law, after all, weren't you?"
Yuan Tian spoke with a smile. In the past, he had disliked Zhang Yuanrang, especially since he could guess the truth behind what had happened back then.
Otherwise, as a city lord without real authority, despite commanding a great many troops, how could he possibly have stayed out of such a major dispute between the Yuan Family and the Wang Family over the Zhang Family?
The three great families of Azure City controlled all the civil posts throughout the city, invisibly binding his hands and feet all along. Yet he held the most powerful force in Azure City.
Now, however, he could no longer use any of that power.
"What did I tell you? Your soldiers definitely won't make it here. Anything you can think of, the Yuan Family can naturally think of too."
"That's easy enough to understand. I just want to know where you sent our daughters."
Yuan Tian asked the question. At present, only he and Zhang Yuanrang remained in the Zhang Family residence.
He had not seen either Yuan Lan or Zhang Yun since the day before yesterday.
"I sent them somewhere safe. If that senior can still make it