Chapter 310: Beyond Reach
Three days later.
Inside a quiet little building in the Great Li imperial capital, the newly appointed Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion Master, Zhu Wuming, formally took charge of the Great Li branch and began working through the Pavilion's affairs.
At that moment, on the other side of the desk piled high with documents before him stood Song Xingwei in a moon-white dress.
Zhu Wuming was somewhere around fifty years old, built large and broad, nothing at all like the refined and scholarly air of Master Youshan. He looked more like a rough fighting man.
But his appearance was in striking contrast to his voice, which was remarkably soft and gentle, the two utterly at odds with each other.
"I have only just arrived in Shangyang City to take over the Pavilion's affairs, and there are many things I am not yet familiar with. I will be relying on Miss Xingwei's guidance."
With his full beard, leopard eyes, and heavy brows, Zhu Wuming struck Song Xingwei as looking rather fierce, yet when he spoke in that tender voice of his, it made her skin crawl.
Song Xingwei reached for the booklet at her waist by instinct, almost recording a demerit on the spot, but in the end restrained herself and said with a dismissive curl of her lip, "Whatever you want to know, as long as I know it, I will tell you. But..."
As she said this, her tone shifted, and she glanced out through the window of the small building, "I do not actually have time to answer your questions today. I need to go outside the city and watch my good friend's elder brother fight."