"Don't disbelieve me."
Xu Yuan sighed softly, his fingers lightly tapping on the tabletop, the gentle "thud", "thud" of the sound echoing:
"To avert any foolish actions you might take against me, within a quarter of an hour, there will likely be a high-ranking official coming to see you. It might be the Minister of Prisons, but there's a greater chance it will be your master, the head of the Secret Investigation Department. In any case, this person will tell you that he'll take over the matter."
"You will feel discontented and wronged, but he will use a strong rationale such as 'your rank is not sufficient to handle these matters' to exclude you."
"And when I see him, I will tell him that you took my Sumeru Ring, and he will demand you return it to me. However, by then, a Yang Marrow Pill will be missing from my Sumeru Ring—nothing too expensive, just about ten thousand taels of silver."
