Chapter 315 – The Enigmatic Far West, A Marriage Alliance with the Ice Folk - Part 2
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Yuan had kept busy, setting up a flurry of business talks between the Flying Nimbus Group, Windfall Group, and every other major merchant guild in the region. During those polite exchanges, he’d quietly shackle people, one after another.
By the time he was done, more than 50 executives, accountants, and guards across the big merchant guilds were wearing human-skin manacles and answering only to him. They would not go hunting for secrets on purpose. But whatever the enemy tried to dig up, he would now hear about it as well.
With that net in place, Li Yuan took Xue Ning home back to Cloudpeak Province.
The Flying Nimbus Group was compromised; fine, he’d let it keep turning a profit and act as an open switchboard.
Every scrap of news Li Yuan learned, the enemy’s spies would learn too. And every scrap the enemy learned would flow straight back through his own spies.
It was a stalemate. Nobody would get the upper hand.
Currently, a carriage rattled toward the borders of Cloudpeak Province.
Inside, Xue Ning still looked dazed. Leaning against Li Yuan’s chest, she lifted the shade and watched a brittle yellow leaf spin past.
“Autumn already... I wonder how that foolish son of ours is getting on.” Her sigh was barely audible.
Li Yuan squeezed her shoulder. “Ping’an was born extraordinary. He’ll be alright.”
After a pause, Xue Ning said quietly, “This time, when we reach Cloudpeak Province, I want to become an undying husk—together with the four maids, Mei, Lan, Zhu, and Ju. If I trigger Yan Yu’s killing rule and buy our soul pouches from her general store, we can all transform. Then at least I can defend myself.”