Kang Luo looked at Kang Xiao's dark face, hesitated, and asked anyway. "Imperial Brother, anything stirring?"

Kang Xiao's face turned even uglier.

Because he... couldn't get it up!

He hadn't been born that way. It was Ning Chen's doing.

When he was captured, Ning Chen had fired several shots in a row, and one had hit him at the very top of his thigh.

If it had been treated in time, he might have recovered.

But back then Ning Chen had only had an army doctor slap a bandage on it, and later Ning Chen's men tortured him. Between the two, he'd lost his manhood.

He watched the dancing girls sway their seductive bodies and float through the dance, and felt nothing at all.

Zhang Tianlun raised his cup and smiled at Kang Xiao. "Welcome back safe and sound, Master Kang, and to the brothers reunited. Come, this emperor drinks to you both."

Kang Luo and Kang Xiao raised their cups. They lifted them toward one another and drained them in one go!

Zhang Tianlun pointed at the dancing girls and went on, "Master Kang, if any of them catch your fancy, take them with you when you go."

In an instant Kang Xiao's face went so dark it was nearly dripping.

Take them back for what? A feast for the eyes and nothing more.

He felt Zhang Tianlun was humiliating him.

Kang Luo saw it and was afraid Kang Xiao would say something he shouldn't. They were allies now, after all.

He smiled. "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Tianlun waved a hand. "From the moment we became allies, we've been one family. No need for thanks!"

Just then a handsome man dressed in white walked in.

This was the man who'd carried Kang Xiao off from the Ministry of Justice in the Great Xuan's capital.

Geng Jing had found out his name was Bai Yixian.

Bai Yixian was skilled with both pen and sword. He idolized Kang Luo, so he copied him in everything, from the way he dressed to the way he did things.

And Kang Luo trusted…