At the banquet, Beidi's protégé Xiao Yu was pressed on the head and passed under the crotch of a dandy. The whole room burst into laughter.
On the high platform, Princess Regent Jing Yao coughed twice, covered the blood at the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, and looked across the crowd to fall on him.
She saw the hand he was holding in his sleeve - the knuckles were white and the veins were bulging.
She also saw a flash of cruelty in his eyes, like a wolf forced to put away its fangs.
Jing Yao put down the tea cup and whispered something to the maid beside her.
That night, a secret report about corruption in the Ministry of Revenue was "accidentally" delivered to Xiao Yu's entourage.
This is the hunter's first horn.
The prey, on the other hand, is completely unaware.
