Ark, they don't revolve around you

"Your Majesty... I have heard this term many times, and I have also seen many so-called Your Majesties." Zhuang Ning sneered, "Don't make any insinuations. Ignore the above matters. Miss Shaoqing, listen to me and put the shackles on me as soon as possible."

He whispered, "At least then neither you nor I will be too embarrassed."

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In the darkness of the night, a loud noise tore through the silence.

That was the sound of blocks connecting to each other. Standing on the city wall, Pingshou Hou Zuo Xuanliao looked down quietly.

His son stood behind him and saw this magnificent scene. The two steel-forged beasts roared at the same time. At that moment, the whole world seemed to burst out with inexplicable power.

"Is it spectacular?" Zuo Xuanliao asked.

"Yes." Zuo Le sighed.

As the candle holder of Simaitai, he has been very busy recently. Fortunately, the mountains and seas have been pacified, and the next task has been handed over to other officials. Zuo Le finally has the leisure to accompany his father.

The father and son were not talkative people. After a moment of silence, Zuo Xuanliao pointed to the capital and said softly, "The capital has changed."

"The capital is changing very fast, with each passing year seeing new changes."

"But in my impression, the capital is still the same capital, and it will always be so prosperous."

"Aren't you happy, father?" Zuo Le was surprised. With Yumen connected to the capital, the foreseeable wealth and glory were right in front of them, but Zuo Xuanliao's brows were even tighter.

"This is a dragon's lair. If a real dragon gets angry, millions of people will die. Even I have to be careful. There is no place like Yumen."

"Father, be careful what you say."

"...I thought I had spoken out of turn." He rubbed his son's head.

At this moment, a dark shadow passed by, and there was darkness under the hat.

"Force?"

"Your Majesty has issued a secret order to impose martial law at Yumen, especially to guard against Rhodes Island."

"Rhode Island." Zuo Xuanliao stroked his beard. "It broke away from Yumen a month ago. Now, it has probably gone to the wasteland outside."

"Is there such a thing?" The imperial guard frowned, "Why didn't you report it?"

People like him were neither humble nor arrogant towards Zuo Xuanliao, and one could even hear oppression in his voice.

This is the capital city, where there are countless people with titles, and the imperial guards represent the emperor's will.

"Rhodes Island was an ally at that time. How could we not listen to our allies?"

"I will report this to the True Dragon." The Imperial Guard handed over another secret letter, "Please have a good rest, Your Excellency. The True Dragon has not seen the general for a long time."

In the blink of an eye, the imperial guards disappeared.

Zuo Le was shocked and said with a little displeasure: "If the imperial guards come, it will definitely be bad news."

That touch of black is an ominous sign in the Great Yan court. Although the imperial guards, the emperor's personal guards, and the minions of the real dragon sound good, most of the things they do are inevitably tainted with blood.

Zuo Xuanliao tore open the letter from the Imperial Guards, read it for a few minutes, and sighed deeply. Although it was expected, he couldn't help but sigh that the royal family was ruthless.

"Father, what is it?" Zuo Le asked in a low voice.

"When the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked." Zuo Xuanliao suppressed his emotions. He knew that he would no longer be at ease in Yumen. He had to keep a stern face and be cautious at all times to avoid falling into the abyss.

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Zhuang Ning woke up after a shaking.

After acquiring the ability to insomnia, he rarely fell asleep, but yesterday he still lifted this ability and took a short nap.

From the moment he was brought into the car, only Lin Qingyan had been with her, and it seemed like a long time ago.

"You can actually sleep, Doctor?"

"I'm so tired." Zhuang Ning yawned, "Where are we?"

"We have already arrived in the capital." Lin Qingyan had a cold face and emphasized for the umpteenth time, "I know you are suspicious, but I will only handle the case impartially. If Rhodes Island has done a favor for Da Yan, I will not be vague."

"I am indebted to Dayan... Lord Lin, you are not a little girl anymore. You have been in the Dali Temple for so long, how can you say such things with such confidence?" Zhuang Ning looked at the girl and couldn't help but sneer.

He and Lin Qingyan met because of the Longmen incident. The Integration Movement invaded Longmen, and in order to ensure that the city was safe, Da Yan sent three special envoys, and Lin Qingyan was one of them.

Logically speaking, this should have nothing to do with Rhodes Island, but Lin Qingyan took a liking to an elite operator of Rhodes Island, Huang, at first sight.

Zhuang Ning didn't understand the dispute between the two and didn't want to get involved. Rhodes Island had hundreds of operators and a lot of work to do. As long as it didn't get out of hand, he generally wouldn't ask about it.

What was unexpected was that when I saw Lin Qingyan again, this former official would actually devote himself to Rhodes Island.

In her words - this is self-exile. She made a mistake, and although the Great Yan court could not punish her, she had to do it herself.

Zhuang Ning really wanted to complain about when Rhodes Island became a place of exile, but considering the opportunity to establish a relationship with Yan, he finally agreed.

But he secretly knew that this girl would leave sooner or later. Nonsense, leaving a good career behind and exiling himself, could he expect it to last forever?

Sure enough, Jingzhe went back afterwards, and she was quite angry when she left. At that time, Zhuang Ning was still troubled by various affairs and didn't pay any attention to her at all.

They met again in Dayan, but the result was like this. Zhuang Ning thought it was ridiculous. He lowered his eyelids and secretly glanced at Jingzhe.

Jingzhe was also glancing at him.

The two looked at each other, and the girl was still so serious and unsmiling.

"What are you looking at?" she complained first.

"You stole glances at least ten times just now." Zhuang Ning said lightly, leaning back.

Apart from anything else, Dayan's car is still good, better than I thought.

"Doctor, you really don't want to believe me?"

"Trust you? I do." Zhuang Ning recalled the reason why Jingzhe left Rhode Island and smiled softly, "If you can't enforce the law impartially, wouldn't I become a joke?"

That was a long time ago. The memory was lost in a lot of events, and it wasn't until I saw her again that I recalled some of it, like an electric shock.

During that period of time, Jingzhe had just arrived on the island, but her popularity was not very good. As a talented woman with a proud temperament from an aristocratic family, the heir of the Tianshi Mansion, and the iron-faced judge of the Dali Temple... any combination of these elements was not a good thing.

It's not that she's annoying, it's just that she's too strict. Most people would stay away from people like this, right? Besides, this person's identity is too special.

So the person he naturally dealt with became the doctor, but Zhuang Ning didn't know what to tell her to do, so he simply kept her by his side for a while.

At that time, Rhodes Island was in its rising period, and new offices were set up in various places. From morning to night, he had only to deal with the snowflakes of intelligence sent from the offices.

Later, some of these tasks were shared by Lin Qingyan, and the two of them were more like colleagues than superiors and subordinates.

Some people once doubted whether it would be a bad idea to let an outsider see the intelligence about Rhodes Island. Zhuang Ning even spoke for Lin Qingyan, saying that she had been with us for a year and had long been known as a real Rhodes Island operator.

There was no way around it. Rhodes Island was short of people, and most of the information was unimportant anyway, so we could only accept it.

Even now, there are still not many people in Rhodes Island who can handle major matters and are trustworthy. Who from the civil service system would have the leisure to come here specifically? Therefore, as outstanding elites among the civil service, Zhuang Ning and Lin Qingyan get along quite well.

As for what caused Rhodes Island to lose such a talent as her, Zhuang Ning thought hard for a long time before he could remember anything.

He only remembered that it seemed to be an afternoon when the girl suddenly rushed in, slapped a line of paper in front of him, and was extremely angry.

He was probably overworked and thought about injecting himself with some medicine while taking the paper.

An application to leave the ship permanently, with two copies in common language and Great Yan language. As expected of a Shaoqing, the preparation is very detailed.

Zhuang Ning only glanced at the reason and whispered, "Because... it's unfair?"

"It's not fair!" the girl angrily said.

"Oh." Zhuang Ning nodded, interrupting the girl who was about to say more, "Because it's unfair."

He signed and gave the paper to Jingzhe, with a smile on his face: "Goodbye, Jingzhe, it's not impossible to come back and play occasionally."

Then he quickly left the office.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Ning couldn't help but sigh, so that's why, why did I feel more tired on weekdays, it turned out that the person who could share the clerical work had left.

However, too many people left Rhodes Island at that time. Although Jingzhe was in a high position and had great power, Zhuang Ning still treated him perfunctorily. In his eyes, he never thought that Jingzhe would stay for long, and he never thought about having a better relationship with Jingzhe.

He even remembered now that he had signed Jingzhe's resignation letter.

Zhuang Ning sighed, but Lin Qingyan became even more angry: "I will be fair."

"Your Excellency, you are not a repeater. I know you will be fair."

Zhuang Ning was a little annoyed by the word "justice"? This was a lawsuit against me. After all, the reason she left the ship was unfair.

Uh……

He really wanted to ask, what's unfair about this? But it was hard to say it now.

After all, the girl should have written down the reasons for the injustice in her application to leave the ship.

However, there were too many people writing applications at the time, and it was really a headache to read them all, so he just took a quick look.

As a result, he didn't even know why the girl left, and he was embarrassed. He couldn't just say, "Can you write an application to leave the ship?"

Zhuang Ning wisely chose to remain silent.

But this silence has a different meaning in Jingzhe's eyes, which is distrust, suspicion, ridicule, mockery... It is anger towards her and the entire Dayan.

If Zhuang Ning knew about this, he would inevitably ask if you have too many ideas, or if you have solved too many cases and have developed paranoia.

But if Zhuang Ning took a serious look at the application to leave the ship, he probably wouldn't have thought about it anymore.

What was written in the application was not just a so-called injustice, but an attack on the doctor's cruelty from top to bottom. It could be described as a manifesto written by Lin Qingyan in extreme anger.

What, "You don't have the humility of a person who bows his head, but you have the self-pity of a prisoner."

What "What you did is disregarding ethics and morality, which is unacceptable to the world."

What is this "Some people say that the doctor has the heart of a tiger and a wolf, harboring an ambition to swallow up the world, a mean and ungrateful person, looking around like a wolf and a tiger."

Because it is written in classical Chinese, it is painful to read. This is probably why Zhuang Ning couldn't stand it back then. Wouldn't it be better to write in vernacular Chinese? Are you writing a resignation letter or are you here to show off your literary talent?

But Lin Qingyan didn't know that. She must have thought that the doctor had read the report in its entirety.

In her impression, the doctor was very calm and signed for her calmly.

There was no expected anger, only extreme calmness.

But this actually shows that he is extremely angry and humiliated, like a powder keg that is about to explode!

Jingzhe left with the eyes of a winner, but the more majestic he was before, the more embarrassed he looked now.

She didn't know that Zhuang Ning was still racking his brains over why the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple next to him resigned.

This position is not low, so we should try to win him over as much as possible. As the backbone of Rhodes Island, why would we let him go?

Which worthless prodigal son let Jingzhe go like this? No wonder he was so tired afterwards?!

Oh, I did it myself, that's okay.

Zhuang Ning was confused. He dug up his memory bit by bit and finally traced back to the source.

It seems that there was a rumor at that time that Rhode Island was going to be sold to Victoria?

After all, he had a very good relationship with Vina at that time. In fact, even now, Victoria is where Rhodes Island's business is most developed, and a large amount of foreign exchange needs to be obtained from Victoria.

Was she angry about this?

That's not true, Zhuang Ning quickly clarified the rumor. Besides, what does the sale of Rhodes Island have to do with a Yan person?

Zhuang Ning gave up thinking about it, his memory was too fragmented. Although he had a photographic memory, there were some things he had never remembered, let alone forgotten.

What happened happened anyway.

After a period of time, the Dali Temple, the Tianshi Mansion, those aristocratic families, noble doctors... will all become like ants!

When Zhuang Ning stopped talking, Jingzhe became even more uneasy.

She thought she should apologize, but looking at the serious expression and the hint of mockery at the corners of his mouth, she couldn't say it.

When she returned to Yan Country, she heard that Rhodes Island was caught in the Londinium crisis, but when she really returned to Rhodes Island, the matter had been almost resolved.

Thanks to Zhuang Ning's command, Rhodes Island did not suffer much damage in the war, but the large outflow of talent has made the organization look like an empty shell.

She had only heard the rumor that the Doctor was going to sell Rhodes Island, but she naturally didn't believe it at first. However, after failing to meet the Doctor for several times, this idea became more serious, and she couldn't help but become annoyed.

To say that Jingzhe likes Rhodes Island very much, that’s not necessarily the case. She wants to see the Doctor more.

But selling Rhodes Island to someone else would also be like a betrayal, right?

If this is the doctor's choice, then it's fine, just accept it, even though Jingzhe once admired the doctor's attitude towards the rule of law, his love of learning and awe of Yan Lu, and his respect for life.