After Wei Zhong returned to the palace, he reported to Bai Qingyan about when Sal Khan and his party arrived in Dadu City and relayed Sal Khan's words verbatim to Bai Qingyan, expressing his concern: "Your Majesty, the Monarch of Tianfeng Kingdom doesn't seem to come with good intentions, he might be targeting you."
"Could he possibly abandon his Tianfeng Kingdom to come to our Zhou and become my imperial consort?" Bai Qingyan chuckled lightly at Wei Zhong's serious demeanor, pointing with the pen to the jade cicada at the corner of the table, "Most likely, it's for the jade cicada in my consort Xiao Rongyan's hands."
Wei Zhong realized this made sense; after all, Sal Khan is the King of Tianfeng Kingdom. There's no way he'd give up his throne to come to Zhou and be the imperial consort. Their eldest lady wouldn't relinquish Zhou to become the Empress of Tianfeng, either. It's just that he overthought it.
