Kacha!

Within an official residence within Clear Distant City, a loud and clear wood fracturing noise sounded.

A red sandalwood table was struck by Zhang Lingyun’s hand, a corner of the table exploding.

Zhang Lingyun’s expression was ashen, grinding noises audible from between his teeth.

“Just a trifling merchant company shopkeeper, yet you dare try to deal with me instead? You actually made me suffer such extraordinary shame and humiliation!” He felt endless rage, as well as the feeling of being struck viciously in the face by someone, yet he was completely powerless to return the favor, leaving this young official who originally had boundless prospects feeling as if his entire body’s blood began to burn with venomous flames!

The opinion of the public wasn’t that easy to change, moreover, his good friend Feng Zhengming was originally supposed to be of great assistance for him in Sunrise Roost Province’s provincial bureaucracy. However, after today, Feng Zhengming’s path in the royal court was already equivalent to being completely cut off, at most serving as his follower in the future, serving him as an ordinary cultivator.

“Originally, I just wanted her to listen obediently and be used by me. However now, it seems like if I don’t...