His veins bulged, yet he did not finish his words.
If it had been in the old days, those who dared to treat him like this would have been sent out of the Capital, died on the battlefield, and met a fate of family destruction and personal doom.
Unfortunately, times had changed, and the glories of the past were no more.
Xue Ping closed his eyes and endured, slowly calming the fierceness within him.
In the case involving Shen Ming, the returning general Chen Bian had already arrived in the Capital.
But with the myriad of troubles on his mind daily, he dared not make contact, monitored by those Military Generals. The fact that he could handle the matter of Zhao Zhong quietly was already very clever. Doing anything extra was risky and likely to be discovered.
When those generals of Chen Bian sensed something was amiss, they wouldn't be foolish enough to contact him.
They acted as if they did not know each other.
