On the ninth day of the first lunar month, after spending several days investigating with Ouyang Yan and others, Si Haofeng returned to Feng Chaonan's residence.
Their findings over these past days could be said to be virtually non-existent.
Though they had the backing of the Mountain River Academy, which deterred anyone from obstructing their investigation, they met plenty of resistance nonetheless.
The Imperial Palace was a place of utmost importance, filled with various taboos, and even with Zhuge Longsu present, it was difficult to conduct a thorough search. After all, not to mention anything else, there were three thousand beauties within the inner palace, each vastly different from these men.
If Ouyang Yan and the others turned the harem upside down, the Confucian reputation would also be destroyed.