The carriage stopped outside the door of the Overwatch Council. Fan Xian exited the carriage and went straight into the yard. Along the way, he smiled slightly at the officials he met. This was the first time he had come to the Council after the "chaos of the rumors," and met with the expected fire in the eyes of all the officials.

In reality, many of the officials in the lower ranks did not know who Ye Qingmei was. However, they saw those s.h.i.+ning words every day and, below it, the name that looked down on all the men in the world. They had eventually developed a familial sense of familiarity and closeness.

Under Chen Pingping's—intentional or not—dissemination, the heads of the Eight Bureaus, Zong Zui, and those old fellows, had begun to publically speak to their subordinates about what kind of merchant family the Ye family had been back in the day. And what the Ye family had done for the Overwatch Council. Finally, they had reached a conclusion: without the Ye family,