Sang Luo froze. She hadn't expected Yan to return.
'Then again, it makes sense. The wards on the underground palace were triggered, so of course he'd rush back immediately. It's sad, really. I wrote him a letter when he left a few days ago, but I still haven't received a reply. The treatment for a stand-in and the real thing truly is different.'
"Little Luo." Yan's Adam's apple bobbed, and he sounded a little nervous.
Sang Luo, by contrast, was very calm. "Has the Divine Venerable decided on an explanation for me?"
"You... you know everything." His voice was strained.
'What was there left to be unclear about?'
The two times Yan had slept with her.
The first time, induced by visions from the Seductive Medicine, he had mistaken her for the deceased Princess of the Red Fox Clan.
