Businesses had to be allowed to keep running, the authorities had to keep up appearances, and, most importantly, no trouble could arise. Everyone staying in their proper place, at every level-that was how things ought to be.
An obstinate, unbending constable harmed himself and others, disrupting "order" even more than thieves and gangs did.
That was why Lü Dingwu had never liked that young constable.
Sharp, tenacious, meticulous, never letting go once she sank her teeth in, and unafraid to die to boot, she hated evil with an almost fanatical passion. She was practically a thorn in his eye.
But he would never devise some scheme to harm her. That was not his way. He only smiled, put her off, softened things, and tried to find a way to toss this hot potato away someday.
Even now, when he learned that the Three Offices were coming, he still stood firmly on the side of the order he had constructed. Magistrate Lu had personally entrusted him with a verbal message, and he had readily agreed. Polite stonewalling was his greatest specialty, after all.
Only when that unanswerable sword gleam lay across his neck did he realize... it had been far too long since he had truly drawn his blade.
He had grown used to closing cases with a few words and a few cups of wine. Now, it was as though a cold, unfamiliar world had suddenly crashed before his eyes. The boy's sharp sword and gaze sent an involuntary chill through his body-this was not the usual posturing and throwing one's weight around. This was the bloodiest, stormiest stretch of the Jianghu, and that Wild Goose Character Token was right before him.
-If the Immortal Platform took him away, would Zhaoyin truly be willing, truly be able, to fish him