"You said Noble Lady Gu's face turned pale with fright, and before she fled, she said something,"
Noble Princess Consort Rong sat in the seat of honor, gently stroking her ornate and exquisite nail armor as she pondered. "'Didn't I hide you in the self-sounding clock? Don't come for me, it was the Empress...'"
Those two sentences contained far too much information.
It was enough to overload Noble Princess Consort Rong's low-powered CPU. She nearly rubbed her nail armor raw. Below, the little eunuch, Shi Tou, stared intently at the floor, scared to death.
"Alright, you may go and collect your reward."
To Shi Tou's surprise, Noble Princess Consort Rong didn't ask any more questions and simply dismissed him. Throughout his entire report, what she cared about most wasn't the suspicious details of the incident, but how pathetic and disheveled Jiang Xian had been.
Her hands were still trembling from copying texts all last night.
