Although Gu Xun was away, he had heard the news of Mei Wanying and Ling's return to the Capital City.
It takes a man to know a man, and he suddenly understood why he had been "driven" out of the Capital City.
He had other official duties at hand, yet he was forced to delegate them and sent away to handle trivial matters.
Gu Xun had thought he would be stuck in this remote place for a long time. After all, Mei Wanying and Pei Yan had rekindled their romance. Opportunities to see her were rare, and Pei Yan wouldn't easily let her return to Jiangnan.
But unexpectedly, he received a verbal decree from the Emperor, ordering him to wrap up his duties as soon as possible and return to the Capital City.
This was completely out of character for His Majesty.
Gu Xun couldn't make heads or tails of it.
'He had a vague intuition that Pei Yan might be setting him up…'
