Only then did Hu Xiaotian release her. Taking her hand, he went back to sit down and told her, one by one, about the hair-raising experiences he had been through lately.
After hearing him out, Murong Feiyan felt that the whole affair was simply too incredible to believe. Yet she could not deny that the news he had given her had turned her mood upside down. In an instant, the whole world seemed beautiful again. There were things a person might refuse to admit aloud yet tacitly accept in their heart. Although Murong Feiyan would never reject Hu Xiaotian no matter what he became, given a choice, a whole man was naturally far better than a eunuch.
Once her delight subsided, she could not help worrying about Hu Xiaotian again. She said quietly, "Then Eunuch Quan may be plotting some grand conspiracy. He wants to use you."
Hu Xiaotian did not tell her that Quan Dean had passed ten years' worth of internal power to him. He sighed. "Even knowing perfectly well that he's using me, I can only let him use me for now. The lives of the entire Hu Family are in his hands. I still don't know what he actually wants me to do. In any case, that old fellow is sinister. He seems to be setting up a very large chessboard."
Murong Feiyan nodded in wholehearted agreement. "Was he also the one secretly instructing you to have Zhan Peng and me join the Divine Strategy Office?"
"Of course it was him," Hu Xiaotian said.
"I received the notice yesterday," Murong Feiyan said. "Zhan Peng and I both passed the preliminary selection."
"Whatever conspiracy he has, we'll take things one step at a time," Hu Xiaotian said. "He may have Zhang Liang's stratagems, but I have a