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Chapter 1164: Speak While Kneeling

    

an order directly from the Prince. Starting today, the patrol shifts within the manor will increase from three shifts to six shifts. No guards are allowed to take leave and must remain on duty within...Chapter 1164: Speak While Kneeling >

Before the person arrives, their voice reaches first.

Li Chen looked up in the direction of the voice. He saw a middle-aged man in silk clothes, glittering with jewels and adorned with gold, silver, and jade, walking out of the rice shop.

This man was thin, but he liked to adorn himself with extravagant decorations, making him look like a clothes rack strutting around with a pile of jewels on it.

This man had a sneer on his face, standing at the door of the rice shop and sizing up Li Chen. "Judging by your accent, you're also from Beijing" in Xizheng Hall, she would always be by the bookshelf against the wall reading stories. So Wan Jiaojiao deliberately left that area empty, while surrounding her own and Li Chen's area with nearly an...