Only then did Geng open his eyes quietly. He felt that every hair on his body was trembling to drag the person on the next pillow towards him and entangle together to his heart's content. However, he couldn't bear to destroy the quiet and warm atmosphere of this moment, thus he remained unmoving while being burned up by the flames of lust, enduring in both discomfort and happiness.

It had been almost eleven years since Gu Yun picked him up in the town of Yan Hui. In these eleven years, Gu Yun had spent more time in the frontier and in the battlefield, they had spent more time far apart than near each other. But he had never left Chang Geng's heart and soul for even a day.

Sometimes Chang Geng did not know how to love him properly. He always felt that it was difficult to repay him even if he used all of his life. Suddenly, he realized that Gu Yun was not the only fortunate thing he had ever met in his life, but rather, it was that all the difficulties he had suffered since his birth, were in order to save up enough luck to meet this man.

As soon as he thought so, every knot in his heart unravelled like a miracle.

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Yan Wang was injured in Jiangnan. Xu Ling stepped forward to handle everything. Master Xu was someone who did not eat either hard or soft, and no one knew where he managed to find Du Long, the son of Du Wan Quan. Young Master Du did not speak much, but he was not at all easy to fool, the difficulty in bribing him was also too high. Their family was so incredibly rich that even the Emperor owed a lot to them, a few meager gifts were not worth bringing up to this man.

At the end of September, Xu Ling, under the guidance of Yan Wang and the full support of Jiangbei Camp, calmed the mob rebellion and resettled refugees in Jiangbei. Then, as Yao Chen was serving as a temporary governor of Liangjiang, Xu Ling returned to the capital with the papers from Yan Wang.

At this time, the curtain of this nationwide case came to an end.

Yan Wang himself still lingered while recovering his wounds and strolled back to the capital without appearing. The vigorous campaign of ‘Canal Corridor’ initiated by him had already taken root. His papers only stayed in the palace for two days when the Grand Court Meeting arrived, and the Grand Council tried their best to support. The two departments were rarely quiet, several great families were busy gathering together their internal forces. They had no mind to pay attention to anything else. Fang Qin was temporarily dormant, and Emperor Long An gave his approval on the same day.