Inside the study, the charcoal brazier emitted a faint crackling sound, yet it failed to banish the intangible heaviness in the air.
A dust-laden middle-aged man with an ordinary face and eyes as sharp as a falcon knelt on one knee. From the inner lining of his padded cotton jacket, he drew out a seemingly ordinary hollow copper tube and presented it with both hands. On one end of the copper tube was branded a tiny, ferocious, roaring bloody wolf head emblem—the most secretive communication insignia of the Zhenbei Estate.
"Heir, a personal letter from the Prince!" The man's voice was hoarse, carrying the exhaustion of a long journey, but his spine remained straight.
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