"Why be alarmed? Meiniang, you've done nothing to trouble your conscience. What do you have to fear?"
Shangguan Shenhao stood before the window railing with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.
Wu Meiniang's Battle Pattern Pavilion stood beside the river and commanded a fine view.
Wu Meiniang gave a bitter laugh. "Today, fifteen hundred household troops from the Shangguan Clan joined three thousand soldiers from the nearby Tianping Army and descended on Ancient Market Town, searching and sealing it off inside and out, as airtight as a heavenly net spread over earth and sky. Who doesn't know by now that the Shangguan Clan's patriarch is in a thunderous rage? Tell me, how could I not be alarmed?"
Wu Meiniang's expression then turned solemn, and she spoke cautiously. "If you wish to ask who killed Shangguan Longjian, Patriarch Shangguan, I truly don't know! This Fifth Grade expert seemed to spring out of a crack in the rocks, beyond the reach of my eyes and ears. Besides-
"The turmoil over the God-Defying Banner has yet to subside. At least ten experts are currently hiding in Xiushui Commandery without showing mountain or water. Even I can only catch glimpses of some of their movements through a few threads of spider silk and horses' tracks. Others are exceptionally skilled at concealing their trails."
She did not mention that someone had commissioned her to watch Shangguan Longjian's movements.
Wu Meiniang dared not breathe a single word of it.
If Chu Xisheng really had killed Shangguan Longjian, wouldn't that make her his accomplice?
If he hadn't, she would only be inviting trouble.
That fellow had really landed her in a pit this time-
"That makes sense!" Shangguan Shenhao nodded slightly. He considered Wu Meiniang's words quite honest.
"What I want to know now