Cardio on the Job~ (1)

The emperor stared at chief Zhao for a few seconds as he tried to remember who exactly chief Zhao was. 

He had a lot of ministers, all of them equally as useless, so unless someone was a standout, exemplary worker, who the emperor could push work on, most of the ministers went under the radar. The emperor probably wouldn't recognize a majority of his ministers.

Chief Zhao should've been an exception to this, considering how much dirt on prime minister Bai he had provided, but it simply didn't work that way.

The emperor hadn't really bothered to think about chief Zhao for quite some time.

Sure, he had thought of executing chief Zhao then and there after finding out that there indeed was no Jianghu member, let alone the boss, in the Bai family mansion. He had even thought of some rather gruesome and creative punishments methods.

But the ever distrustful emperor had some pride in him.