Soon, Dong Wenshu arrived with a great throng of people.
Seeing that his daughter was unharmed, Dong Wenshu breathed a sigh of relief. Facing the Azure-Robed Literatus quietly leafing through a book beside her, however, he did not quite know what to say. His son had already told him who this man was.
As for Shi Chun nearby, he had no idea who he was, nor did he need to concern himself with him.
With so many outsiders around, Dong Wenshu could hardly say much. He turned back to ask Dong Liangyu what had happened.
Dong Liangying said she had no idea either. She had suddenly been immobilized too and had seen nothing.
The crowd then surged over to the damaged window at the other end to inspect it, chattering away.
Even those who had witnessed the window breaking from outside had not seen who had flown out. It had happened too fast.
On the mountaintop within the city, City Lord Li Xianghong encountered another puzzle. The activated City-Guarding Grand Array had suddenly shut down. She summoned the person in charge to ask what had happened, but that person had not figured it out either. All they knew was that it had suddenly shut down for a moment, then worked normally when restarted.
At the Book Hall, people from the City Guard also came over and politely asked what had happened. They merely recorded the strange events everyone described and dared not press for further details. Those were their superiors' instructions as well: they had been discreetly warned that a powerful figure backed this place and told not to provoke it.
Most people did not know that this so-called powerful figure was the Demon Empress. Those who knew about the matter had not gone around wagging their tongues or spreading