The way he dressed was very skillful, and he didn't look like a king who had been served since childhood.
Just as he had fastened his undershirt, he heard hurried footsteps coming from the entrance of the tent.
Su Wei lowered his narrow eyes slightly and put away the scroll on the table.
"presumptuous."
His voice was calm, but the sense of oppression it conveyed made the guard stop instantly and kneel down to plead through a layer of gauze.
"Your Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for my intrusion! May I ask if everything is alright?"
Su Wei walked to the couch and picked up a moon-white outer garment. Something fell down with it. "I'm fine. Why are you so flustered?"
"I just heard some unusual noises coming from the shed. After checking, I found a hole dug in the ground to the north. It looks like..."
Su Wei suddenly interrupted and said slowly, "It may not be a human."
The guard was a little surprised: "What?"
"I think the person digging the pit might not be a human." Su Wei smiled faintly, playing with the hairpin he had just picked up. "This is a wilderness. Maybe it's just a rabbit that got confused."
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On the north side of the camp, in front of the right tent of Guang Yaoying, Xiao Nanhui rubbed his trembling calves, and the uneasiness in his heart finally calmed down.
She looked up at the sun and it seemed to be just past noon.
Thinking back on what happened that day, she felt it was extremely long.
A soldier from the same camp who was passing by came towards her and was about to greet her, but was stunned to see that her hair was half loose.
Xiao Nanhui only then realized that he had been running all the way with his hair disheveled.
She spread out her palms with lingering fear, and the moment she saw what she had slipped out, she was stunned.
Where's the hairpin? Where's her hairpin?
In the palm of his hand, soaked with cold sweat, there was only half a long and narrow jade pendant.
A cuff with half of it cut off.
Shackle-shaped pendants are rare to begin with, and those that have been cut in half to this shape are even rarer.
But she had just seen one not long ago.
Xiao Nanhui was completely confused.
Isn’t this... the jade pendant she saw in Prince Kang’s palace that night?
When she fainted in Xuemi Palace and woke up again, the jade pendant was no longer on her.
But why is it here?
How could it be in...that person's tent?
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