To Han Yu, these abandoned individuals were valuable assets. To Lady Rot Rose, they had likely been expendable.
Even so, such actions did not go unnoticed.
There had been incidents.
Shipments that disappeared during transit. Materials that failed to arrive without explanation. Messengers who vanished along the way, their fate unclear. None of these events could be traced back to her directly. They were subtle, well within the chaotic nature of the sect, and could easily be dismissed as coincidence.
Han Yu had never believed they were coincidences.
He had also never responded.
In a place like the Slaughtered Moon Divine Blood Sect, such exchanges were part of the unspoken rules.
Open conflict was unnecessary when pressure could be applied in quieter ways. Han Yu had accepted it as a cost, a form of acknowledgment that he had entered territory where others already held influence.
That was the extent of their relationship.
They had never met face to face.
