"So this is all forbidden territory by Chief Overseer of the Fisheries from here on out, huh?" Pei Ye stopped in his tracks, glancing behind him, where the empty grassland vanished into the quiet and dim.
Killing someone and wanting to kill them are indeed different, Pei Ye, whose sword had been stained with much blood, was very clear on this point. He might not necessarily want to kill the person he had just met, but he did not hesitate at all when he made his move.
Some people kill because they should be killed; some kill simply because, at that moment, they exist in The Pugilistic World together.
"Come if you dare, then die," was a phrase that echoed something similar.
When the Purple-robed Eunuch pushed open the door of the study, there was no look of rage on his face, just as he hadn't hidden those short notes and books in any secret compartments; they were simply spread out openly, basking in the glow of the morning sun.