In the main hall of the Tian Family restaurant, only Zhao Lie and his twenty-right companions remained, locked in a standoff with the Tian Family's elite guards.
Tian Hong had ordered his men to surround them without attacking, waiting only for the bone-softening powder to take full effect so they could be bound one by one, thrown into prisoner carts, and sent to the Capital to claim a bounty from the Crown Prince.
Yet, half an hour had long since passed, and not a single one of the twenty-seven men on Zhao Lie's side had fallen to the ground.
Chapter 36