The woman named Fan Xiaochai was the daughter of a lineage holding a grudge against Xu Xiao. Master Lin, meanwhile, was a doofus being used to bring the assassin into the palace. Taking the chance of sightseeing, Miss Fan drew a map of the palace and a portrait of Xu Fengnian, awaiting a chance of assassination.
Xu Fengnian had no mercy for those people. After all, he had learned quite a lot about the world in the three-year travel.