Then came the question: assuming Emperor Yongchang had known all along that the Heavenly Queen was the Demon God Peacock King, why had he sent Qi Shiyun and Lianshan Xin to the Miao Frontier to find the Evening Drum?
Did he want to depose his consort? Kill the donkey once the grinding was done? Or was the premise wrong? Had Emperor Yongchang merely stumbled into this without knowing the truth at all? Also, if the Heavenly Queen really was the Peacock King, with her authority over the Nine Heavens and her intelligence network, she surely would have known where the Evening Drum was long ago. Then she could simply have settled the matter without a sound. How could things have come to this?
Would the real Yan Shuang have had a chance to visit people's dreams everywhere, gathering help?
Besides, why had this woman calling herself Yan Shuang started appearing in dreams only recently, rather than earlier or later?
What trickery lay behind this?
It probably was not aimed at him. Lianshan Xin remembered very clearly that Yan Shuang had said she had visited the Dingyuan Marquis's dreams before he even arrived in the Miao Frontier. Now she had dragged Feng Xuange into it too.
The Governor of Miao Prefecture, Yan Xiezhi, had even gone to find her already.
One woman had caught almost all the Miao Frontier's upper ranks in a single net.
Compared with Yan Shuang, Shen Wenxin, whom the Miao Frontier's upper ranks universally praised, was like a Raw Recruit.
A true beauty who brought disaster did not need to let anyone gain the slightest advantage from her to stir the winds and clouds.
The Shen Family woman still needed practice.
Lianshan Xin swiftly ran through his various doubts.
Divine Constable Lianshan Jingcheng had once said, if