In one's life, there was always a moment when one cannot contain anything in mind except for an absurd idea for no reason. A strong desire seems to devour the whole spirit, even if reason outside the brain risked its life to stretched its claws and scratch the door.

      For example, many years ago, when Gu Yun's head was delirious from fever in the wild northwest, he thought of resigning from his position and wandering around the world.

      For example, many years later, Chang Geng came out of the imperial palace with the breeze and snow, only wanted to see Gu Yun who was thousands of miles away.

      Chang Geng ran back to the Marquis's manor without thinking. Two iron puppets at the door turned around and watched him silently. As soon as he met the purple light in the puppet's eyes, his steps suddenly stopped.

      Chang Geng and the two iron monsters looked at each other for a long time; he finally slowly recovered from the state of almost succumbing into madness. With a sigh, he reached out and touched the ice cold arm of the iron puppet, slowly lowered his head and bowed down, breathing out a dense white mist.

      In the past, they separated then reunited, there was a time when they didn't see each other for four years, yet it did not seem to be as difficult as this moment. Chang Geng himself didn't know whether he was becoming more fragile, or whether he was becoming more and more greedy for Gu Yun. There seemed to be a string in his heart; ever since Gu Yun suddenly wrote a letter saying that he missed him, it began to tense up.

      When every thrilling battle in the south reached the capital, the string would become tighter. When the situation in the court became more dangerous and complicated, it would also become a bit tighter. Until it suddenly broke at this moment without warning.

      At this time, the gate opened from the inside, it was the manor guard captain Huo Dan.

      Huo Dan saw Chang Geng's strange expression and was surprised: "Uncle Wang is asking me to find you, Your Highness. What's the matter?"

      Chang Geng's eyes were slightly red, but he adjusted a smile in the fastest time, he patted away the snowflakes on his body: "Nothing, I was dizzy from running too fast. What does Uncle Wang need me for?"

      Huo Dan was a crude man. He didn't see anything unusual after hearing it, he helped him up and whispered in his ear: "There is a guest who is inconvenient to appear. He said he has an urgent matter to report. He was unable to come to the Grand Council to meet and can only come to the Marquis's manor."

      The visitor was a man of about thirty-four or thirty-five. Chang Geng didn't know him, but he must have met him somewhere, he seemed familiar. As he adjusted his disordered mental state, he tried to recall the identity of the guest.

      Fortunately, the man himself came forward and said, "I am Liu Zhong, deputy governor of the Foreign Affairs Mission, greeting to Your Highness."

      The so-called "Foreign Affairs Mission" was built by a group of pro-peace factions from the Ministry of War, using a connection they have with Honglu Temple, it was built by their joint effort. For fear of touching Emperor Long An's temper, they did not even dare call themselves "peace envoy", they had to bear the half-ass name of "Foreign Affairs Mission", raised the  banner of "one civil, one militant", finding some bullshit reason to go on the front line to "make the enemy retreat through other ways"; this was purely with the intention of making trouble for Gu Yun.