After asking his questions, Xu Xi left with Wu Yingxue, sparing the tax collector's life for the moment.

The tax collector's ultimate fate was to be dragged away by a middle-aged man with a scarred face.

The tax collector looked at his face, filled with terror, while others who also bore grudges against him silently accepted the scene of the tax collector being taken away by the middle-aged man.

Wu Yingxue learned the story of the middle-aged man from Xu Xi.