As if there was something terrifying behind him, his adrenaline was bursting to the max. Chen Miao Ping had never run so fast before, so fast that his shadow never touched the ground. His heart never stopped pumping in fear, up until he ran straight to the entrance of Chang Guo Gong's estate and saw the two guards in front.
Chen Miao Ping leaned against the lion statue in front of the door, chest heaving and out of breath. Seeing him like this, the two guards asked,
"Gu-Ye, are you okay?"
Chen Miao Ping waved his hand in the air and was about to say something when his eyes caught something in his peripheral vision. It was that "ghost" coming up from right behind him. But this time, there were actual human beings beside him, so he wasn't as afraid anymore.
When that thing was closer, Chen Miao Ping realized that it was actually a man with a proper human face and that their hair was just in disarray. He was limping as well, which could only contribute to the frightening picture he created in the dark of the night.
Wang Yu had not recognized Chen Miao Ping. As he headed towards the Chief Surveillance Bureau, he had asked around and learned that Chen Miao Ping would usually walk down this road when he got off work. When he saw Chen Miao Ping in his official's outfit, his heart hadn't been too sure, and he was just going up to ask.
But who could expect that the other man would start running out of his sight and wouldn't even stop even after he yelled after him. And to finally see him now, standing there in front of his eyes, Wang Yu started to tear up and knelt on the ground with a clear and audible "bam",
"Are you City Warden Inspector Chen Da-Ren?!"
Chen Miao Ping grabbed onto the feet of the lion statue, hiding the majority of his body behind it. He popped his head out of the lion's ass when he heard that and asked,
"This official is the City Warden Inspector. What business do you have with me?"
"I beg for Da-Ren to save our lives!"
Wang Yu was moving frantically in a strange way but he bowed his head hard against the ground a few times, telling Chen Miao Ping everything that just happened at Chun Xiao House,
"Xue Yi's personality is unyielding, and she will not succumb to the requests of that prince. Before she left her room, she had this insignificant citizen go find Da-ren for help. Please, I beg for Da-Ren with his generosity and graciousness to lend a hand!"
Ye Lu Jin Qi was someone who surrounded himself with servants and guards in the front and the back before going anywhere. Add on that Li Qin Wang and it was very evident that pitting Chen Miao Ping against this type of opponent, with his position as a tiny, tiny warden inspector, might just be a one-sided difficulty.
Beyond that, one must consider that he could be breaking the non-aggression pact between the two countries, and to speak of the most unfortunate fate, he may receive punishment from the Emperor from this rising issue.
Chen Miao Ping, as a City Warden Inspector, was the overseer of everything related to the citizens' affairs within this city. So there was nothing wrong with Wang Yu coming to find him, but that wasn't the problem.
The problem was that there seemed to be no law which stated that forcing an entertainment lady to accompany her guests was wrong. There was no possible nor logical reason to use to stop that from happening.
This Wang Yu knew as well, and seeing Chen Miao Ping not speak, his face turned ashen and his body slumped in defeat. He hugged the stone stairs in front of the Chang Guo Gong estate as he said quietly,
"......Apologies for causing trouble for Da-Ren."
The moment he said that, he suddenly slapped himself hard. He stood up and then ran off, stumbling back the way he came.
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