The dust stirred by the panicked flight of the imperial envoy's retinue had not yet settled on the post road of Canglang City.
Inside the main hall of the Prefect Mansion, the bizarre atmosphere—a mixture of the gaudy, pearl-adorned heavy incense and the bloody, iron-willed aura of the Northern Frontier—still lingered.
On the scarlet carpet, a few dark spots marked where cold sweat had dripped from Eunuch Gao, the imperial envoy.
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