He was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly froze. All he could see were her beautiful eyes, and all he could think about was Daji's every smile and frown.

"It's a success!" Mi Li exclaimed excitedly upon seeing this. With her keen eyesight, she could naturally tell that the other party's mind had been completely controlled.

Zuan breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked him about the secret of the person behind it all.

Ma An shook his head stiffly: "It's not the King of Qi, but my master."

"Who is your master?" Zu An frowned, wondering why he would use such a strange title.

“The master is the lord of Youying Tower,” Ma An answered instinctively.

"Shadow Tower!" Zu An was startled. This wasn't the first time he'd heard this term. Qiao Xueying had mentioned it to him before. She had joined Shadow Tower to save her people, and he himself had fought against Shadow Tower assassins. All he knew was that they were one of the most mysterious organizations in the world.

"Who is the master of Youying Tower?" Zu An hurriedly asked.

“I don’t know,” Ma An said, his eyes blank and lifeless. “The master of Youying Tower never shows his true face. He is always shrouded in darkness and mist. No one in the world knows his identity.”

Zuan frowned: "Then what other information do you know about him?"

Ma An replied, "I suspect he is likely a member of the royal palace."

"A person from the imperial palace?" Zu An was originally just curious about who this mysterious Shadow Tower Master was, but he didn't care too much. After all, no matter how mysterious the other party was, he was just the leader of an assassin organization and didn't have much influence on the court.

But when he heard that the other party might be someone from the imperial palace, he felt a chill run down his spine.

You see, he's been going in and out of the palace all these days, and he hasn't realized who might be the master of Youying Tower.

More importantly, the palace is the emperor's territory, so how could the master of Youying Tower hide in the palace right under the emperor's nose?

Either the leader of Youyinglou is one of the emperor's men, but Youyinglou accepted the mission to assassinate me back then, when the emperor was waiting for his Phoenix Nirvana Sutra, so it's unlikely that the two are from the same faction.

There is only one other possibility: the owner of Youying Tower has another public and legitimate identity that allows him to stay in the palace, which is why the emperor did not suspect anything.

But who exactly is this person?

Eunuch Wen? Zhu Xie Chixin? The Empress? Eunuch Lü? Guo Zhi? Or the Crown Princess, Consort Bai? Or perhaps some unremarkable palace maid or guard?

Faces appeared in Zaun's mind, even the faces of Pu Duandiao and Jiao Sigun emerged.

Zu'an's hair stood on end. He knew that he was in the palace with such a powerful figure, and that the other party might be secretly observing him all along, and that his every move had not escaped the other party's notice...

The exposure of Eleven's identity is a minor matter. His previous actions, such as releasing Qiao Xueying and Qiu Honglei, saving Yun Jianyue, and even having that absurd night with the Empress, are all crimes punishable by the extermination of nine generations of his family. If others find out about these things and use them as leverage, his life and death will be in their hands.