Before long, Tenner arrived, still half-asleep, and asked, "Miss Grace, what do you need?"
"On Chang'an Street, there's a shop with no sign," Grace said. "There's only a black flag hanging by the door, but not a single word on it."
"A shop that strange? What do they sell?"
"Intelligence," Grace replied. "Tomorrow, take some money and buy me information about someone."
"Who?"
Grace said a name: "Rachel Young."
This Chief Zhang—Grace had always felt suspicious of her.
She seemed a little too nice to me.
The moment she arrived, she tossed her original assistant aside.
At first, Grace wondered if maybe Chief Zhang just really liked girls?
There aren't many female herbalists in the Herb Division, but it's not like I'm the only one—there are four or five others!
So why was she so nice to me, someone she'd never even met before?
After the whole Prince Charles Chang incident, Grace had a feeling that Chief Zhang took her under her wing with ulterior motives from the very start...
Was it on Vice President James's orders?
Or was there some other reason?
Rina Chu was the one who told her about that place. According to Rina, it was super reliable.
And as it turned out, she was right.
Tenner's investigation results came back fast.
Grace was genuinely surprised as she looked through the file in her hands.
The report documented everything about Chief Zhang, from her birth all the way to now—nothing was left out.
It included detailed information about her father, mother, siblings, and her husband's family.
It even said that, more than twenty years ago, before she was married, she had an affair and gave birth to a child.
She sent the child away—to an ordinary family with the surname Hsu.
That family named the child Lily.
At this point, Grace's eyes paused on the page.
Lily? The Hsu family?
Wait a second—wasn't that Lily Xu?
Sure enough, it said that after her first birthday, this little girl was found to have the Celestial Five-Element Root.
Her adoptive family poured all their resources into raising her.
She joined the Vermilion Spirit Alliance, and her future looked incredibly bright.
Unfortunately, because of a love affair, she died young...
So that's what happened!
Grace suddenly understood.
Looks like Chief Zhang was out for revenge for her illegitimate daughter from the very beginning.
She'd even suspected that Vice President James had bribed her!
But Vice President James doesn't directly oversee the Herb Division.
From what she'd observed lately, those two barely seemed close at all.
That's why she had Tenner buy intelligence and investigate—and she actually found something.
But wow, this intel... Digging up secrets about an illegitimate child from over twenty years ago? That's impressive!
"That place is called the Phantom Bureau," Tenner said. "They gave me a VIP card. We're officially their VIP clients now—anytime we need info, we just show this card and they'll help us out! They can get intel on gods, immortals, demons, humans, ghosts—anyone on Ten Wilds Continent!"
As he spoke, Tenner handed the card to Grace.
There were only two lines on it.
The first line just said: Phantom Bureau.
The second line was a name: Wang Ba.
Grace burst out laughing. "Wang Ba? Are you messing with me?"
Tenner laughed too and said, "Nope, he said his surname is Wang and he's the eighth child. So he's Wang Ba."
"Alright then... Oh, by the way, you said we're VIP clients?" Grace asked Tenner. "This report is so detailed, I bet it cost a fortune. Did you just pay a deposit, or the full price? How much did they charge?"