He snuck along his path without incident.
Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief...
"Hm?"
Gongshu Qing suddenly shuddered and snapped his head up.
And then...
He saw someone sitting on a tree branch, flashing a huge, wild grin at him.
He was completely stunned. "Zhao... Zhao Ci?"
Zhao Ci: "Surprise, motherfucker!"
Gongshu Qing: "???"
...
「At the foot of Wanggui Mountain.」
「Inside the manor.」
Zhao Yan sat on a high platform, quietly supervising.
In the courtyard, seventy-two junior officials from the Imperial Clan Court, organized into pairs, monitored the thirty-six White Jade Platforms corresponding to the Small Barriers.
Zhao Qing, sitting beside him, didn't quite understand. "Yan! Do we really need to be this tense? They only went in an hour ago. What kind of trouble could they possibly get into so soon?"
These thirty-six Small Barriers were marked on the map as refuge points.
