The Powerful Minister's Mad White Moonlight

On the first day Pei Changzhou became a Thousand-Household Commander in charge of punishments at the Northern Pacification Bureau, he pulled a mute woman named Su Wan, barely clinging to life, out of the water dungeon.

Her face was exactly like that of the young man who had taken a blade for him in a crowd of starving refugees all those years ago. He concealed the case records, hid her away in his residence, and searched the land for renowned physicians to treat her old injuries.

At court, the Northern Pacification Bureau and its Deputy Commander, Gu Xuanzhi, were locked in a fight to the death.

Gu Xuanzhi was wildly unpredictable. One moment he would be admiring flowers; the next, he would be flaying a censor alive.

With meticulous planning, Pei Changzhou uprooted all three of Gu Xuanzhi's sleeper agents in the capital, sending the entire court into an uproar.

But when night fell, Gu Xuanzhi stormed into the courtyard, covered in blood. The tip of his blade was pointed at Su Wan's brow as he glared at Pei Changzhou with blood-red eyes.

"So the salary Thousand-Household Commander Pei risked his life to earn goes toward keeping a mute little songbird?"

Pei Changzhou gripped the hilt of his Embroidered Spring Saber and stepped forward, his expression impassive.

"Lord Gu, before you touch her, take a look at the Imperial Guards behind you and ask yourself who commands them."