People came and went on the streets under the sky of night. 

“Yuyan, do you hold it against me for telling you to get out of that private room?” said Tang Tianlong apologetically after they walked out of Wangfu Hotel. 

Tang Yuyan smiled wryly but did not say anything. She surely had complaints but she did not want to articulate them. 

Tang Tianlong sighed. “You know the rules of the Tang sect. It’s been hundreds of years and every generation is the same, otherwise we Tangs wouldn’t have persevered to this day. We have to guarantee the sect before all else, and the interests of the sect are far from what’s right and what’s wrong. Neither Mu Jianfeng nor Ye Kun are people we can offend.” 

“But Shentu Tianyin dared to.” Tang Yuyan couldn’t help thinking about the courage Shentu Tianyin had to intervene in that situation. She did not fear death on the battlefield but she lacked that sort of courage. 

“You cannot compare yourself to her. The Shentu clan has only established itself for the past thirty years. It is a clan formed via rapid growth and it has...