As for those escaped prisoners?
Heh!
Just grab some drifters from outside the Imperial City and replace them.
What, you say those drifters don’t look like the original prisoners? Who the hell cares about that?
"Sir!"
Right at this moment.
Shi Sheng, who had been silent for a while, finally looked up, hesitantly glancing at Ye Liuyun.
"Not willing to let it go?"
Shi Sheng’s face betrayed every ounce of his emotion, and Ye Liuyun picked up on it easily.
Shi Sheng was deeply unwilling—those people he’d spent effort capturing were just let go like that.
If it keeps going like this, what’s the point of arresting anyone at all? They’ll get released anyway, so why bother—it makes no fucking difference anymore.
"I just think it’s pointless!"
"No, it’s got a point!"
Seeing Shi Sheng like that, Ye Liuyun suddenly broke into a grin.
"Even if they end up getting released, isn’t it only natural if they get roughed up a little while you’re arresting them?"
"???"
Shi Sheng’s brain froze.
He heard Ye Liuyun’s words, but for a moment, he didn’t know what to make of them.
But off to the side was Si Nan.
After a brief moment of thought, realization dawned—he stared at his boss in shock.
"As expected of you, sir. Sharp as ever!"
"?"
Shi Sheng was even more puzzled, seeing Si Nan understood so quickly.
"Wait, what are you two talking about? I don’t get it!"
"Idiot!"
Si Nan rolled his eyes at Shi Sheng in exasperation.
But then he patiently explained.
"What the boss means is simple: we keep arresting people like usual. Even if they get released, when we nab them, if you just break a leg or something, then when they get out, they’re crippled, right?"
"So if they wanna stir up trouble again, they’ll think twice!"
Listening to this explanation,
Shi Sheng’s eyes went from muddled and confused to bright and eager.
He looked at Ye Liuyun as if seeing a genius descended from the heavens.
"As expected of you, sir! Even ideas like this, you can come up with!"
Good! This idea is great!
Shi Sheng had always despised those pampered pricks.
Now, thinking about having the chance to break their legs in the future, Shi Sheng was honestly considering whether to practice a leg-smashing martial art, so he could do it fast, precise, and viciously.
Ye Liuyun didn’t bother with Shi Sheng, who was lost in his own fantasy.
After a while, Si Nan looked at Ye Liuyun a bit nervously.
"Sir, good idea, but won’t this make some powerful enemies?"
After all, anyone who could get released must have serious connections.
If you really piss them off, there’s bound to be trouble.
"Maybe it’ll be troublesome for now."
Ye Liuyun didn’t even try to deny it.
But then he paused, smiled, lifted his hand, and patted Si Nan on the shoulder.
"Once I break through to Grandmaster, none of this will be trouble anymore!"
"Huh???"
Grandmaster, what the hell?
Is breakthrough supposed to be that easy?
You know, most martial artists spend their whole lives stuck at the bottleneck, never crossing over.
But here comes Ye Liuyun—
Breaking through to Grandmaster is as casual as eating or drinking.
Under Si Nan’s stunned stare, Ye Liuyun just smiled and didn’t explain further.
"I’m heading to the Imperial Prison. Contact me if anything comes up!"
Saying that, he ignored Si Nan’s dumbfounded look and walked over to the Imperial Prison.
These days, quite a few people in the Embroidered Uniform Guard know Ye Liuyun loves visiting the Imperial Prison to watch prisoners get tortured. Some even conclude he’s probably mentally twisted.
Honestly.
No decent person enjoys watching that shit.
As for those rumors,
Ye Liuyun tried justifying himself at first, but now he doesn’t give a damn.
Let people talk—their gossip won’t affect him one bit.
Si Nan could only watch as Ye Liuyun walked away.
When he turned back, he saw Shi Sheng still deep in his fantasy, probably thinking up ways and angles to smash those bastards’ legs more efficiently.
"Say, if I smash both their legs at once, will they be completely unable to go out making trouble ever again?"
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Damn, you really are a twisted little genius.
Si Nan was speechless.
"Can you focus on the important point here? Didn’t you hear what the boss just said?"
"Hear what?"
Shi Sheng looked at him blankly, wondering why Si Nan was so worked up.
"Grandmaster!"
God, you’re hopeless.
If he wasn’t worried about being overheard,
Si Nan would’ve shouted at him right on the spot.
Instead, he just dragged Shi Sheng aside and muttered in a low voice.
"The boss just said he’s going to break through to Grandmaster!"
"So?"
Shi Sheng did hear it.
He just wasn’t as excited about it as Si Nan—instead, he looked up with a weird look.
It was as if he couldn’t figure out why Si Nan was flipping out over this one sentence.
,,,
You’ve got nothing but muscle between your ears, huh?
"That’s a Grandmaster!"
A martial artist at the Grandmaster Realm is an absolute force wherever he goes, respected everywhere.
Even in the Great Qian Dynasty, Grandmasters are always in short supply.
"I know Grandmaster is a big deal!"
Shi Sheng was a true martial arts maniac.
No way he didn’t get what Grandmaster meant.
But—
"If it’s the boss, breaking through to Grandmaster is only natural!"
As he said this, Shi Sheng was completely calm—it was obvious this was just his honest opinion.
"As long as it’s the boss, never mind Grandmaster—even Grandmaster Supreme, I’d buy it!"
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