Xiao Tieleng was staring at that distant mountain outside his window, already doing this for a whole hour, watching until his face became even colder, as if there was a layer of frost that formed.

His expression was extremely cold, but there was a wave of vexed and dry heat that was hard to get rid of within him.

He knew that there were quite a few people who admired Lin Xi’s way of doing things in the royal court, especially those who came from Green Luan Academy, those officials who were a bit wild and untamed to begin with. They objected to the way Mu Chenyun’s case was handled to begin with. Once they found out about Mu Chenyun’s death, learning about the events that transpired after, there was even more of a powerful retaliation from these officials. This was especially the case when two of the nine elders seated behind the heavy layers of curtains already, through some of their influence, expressed a certain type of intent.

However, what left him the most gloomy weren’t these things, but rather the two youngsters behind him, Jiang Xiaoyi and Bian Linghan.

In Yunqin’s royal court, Xiao Tieleng was someone who pursued Yunqin law regardless of whether it was on the surface or in private, extremely clean, an official who could be described as clean and uncorrupted.

However, just like those inflexible Imperial Censors, there was one part that he could not overcome, already merged into...