"City Lord, can we assign someone else to monitor Lin, the Storekeeper?" Xu Longyun was engrossed in official documents when Zhao Tong pushed open the door and walked in, his face ashen, his legs trembling where he stood.
"What's wrong?" Xu Longyun was startled by Zhao Tong's state.
"City Lord, I really can't take it anymore! Lin, the Storekeeper, he's not doing a single thing a proper person would do!" Zhao Tong's tears started to flow before he even finished speaking. A Hidden Guard of the City Lord's Mansion, a man of iron who wouldn't so much as blink if stabbed, now looked as pitiful as a child.
"..." Xu Longyun put down the documents, her fine eyebrows knitted slightly. "Did he bully you?"
"He... he forced me to eat the food he cooked." Unpleasant memories flooded his mind, and his stomach churned. He instinctively clutched his belly.
