Chapter 45: Wrong Way Round

Since Lei Shengda went off to the military camp, the general’s residence’s defenses had grown increasingly lax. Even with Lei Shengda still nominally at the residence, for Fang Rui it was no trouble at all to slip into the general’s mansion unseen, then sneak into the Grand Guardian’s residence to see Shen Yu, and return the same way without worrying about being discovered.

A dark figure vaulted the wall from the general’s residence into the Grand Guardian’s residence with a nimble, practiced grace. He had even calculated his landing points with precision.

Knowing the way like the back of his...