In the side room of a small courtyard.
After finishing today's treatment, the Nanming Immortal Emperor continued dragging Wang Shouzhe into a game of chess.
However, unlike the usual one-sided slaughter, this game went back and forth. The pieces crisscrossed the board, and the two sides appeared evenly matched.
It was not because Wang Shouzhe's chess skills had improved, but because the Nanming Immortal Emperor was deliberately controlling the flow of the game.
He had to let Wang Shouzhe taste a little sweetness, lest Wang Shouzhe be crushed by his overwhelming assault and quit after only two games. Where would the fun be in that?
"Your Majesty, how has your intelligence-gathering work been going?" Wang Shouzhe asked, as though he had not noticed the Nanming Immortal Emperor's intentions. He casually placed a piece, cutting off his opponent's offensive.
The Nanming Immortal Emperor rolled his eyes.
Listen to that tone~!
Anyone unaware of the truth might have thought Wang Shouzhe was the great Immortal Emperor secretly controlling the board, while Nanming was merely a lackey running errands.
But when he remembered that his old life was still in the other party's grasp, he lost the nerve to slam the table. He could only honestly report, "Nothing suspicious can be found on the surface. Yao Ruping was born into the prestigious Yao Clan of Supreme Purity Heaven. Before marrying that brat Xuanyuan Tianyu as his second wife, she had been a respectable young lady with an unblemished background. There were no stains on her past record."
After a pause, the Nanming Immortal Emperor grew excited again. "But after she married, she seemed like a different person. Who knew where she learned such profound seduction arts? Not only did she charm Xuanyuan Tianyu until he was dizzy and disoriented, but behind the scenes,