Chapter 36 - The secret Meeting

The messenger from the small town arrived at the Western Clan residence shortly after dinner, when Lord Seo Mun-gyeom, the head of the Western Clan, was still sitting inside his private study with a cup of freshly brewed tea and several reports spread across the low table, yet the peaceful evening ended the moment he opened the letter bearing his nephew's seal and read no more than the first few lines before the expensive porcelain cup left his hand and smashed against the wooden pillar beside him.