As a grand master, Gongsun She's intuition told him that Li Ruoxuan had specially recruited the tiger guards just to protect themselves against him!
Although he was a grand master, the intelligence system of the Zhaixing Administration as well as the investigative abilities of the State Preceptor of Northern Liang himself were very refined. Both parties were certainly aware that he had not left Qingzhou City.
Hence, the question stands—if the tiger guards had been called in by Li Ruoxuan, then… perhaps the mysterious person who had just ascended to the level of a grand master was Li Ruoxuan? Was it possible that his true motive of recruiting the tiger guards was to protect himself, while under the guise of accompanying Qi Qingyao to the Capital?
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