The guard moved like a shadow to Dugu Xuancheng's side. "Your Highness, we've found out which room the young lady is staying in."
"Yes, take me there."
Xiao Jing is a man of some cunning; I'm not sure if I've truly seen through him.
Now that Pingting is in this nunnery, I'll have her find a way to get close to Xiao Jing, thus adding another bargaining chip to my plans."
Dugu Xuancheng's only worry now is the instability at home. After all, Xiao Jing has already betrayed his master once. How can he guarantee that such a fickle person will really be loyal to him?
What if the coup fails and everyone flees to Ji Yun, but Xiao Jing, accustomed to a life of being second only to the emperor, is unwilling to relinquish his position?
So he thought of Dugu Pingting, his abandoned daughter, whom he had raised for more than ten years, and it was time for her to put her remaining strength to good use.
Once she gets to Xiao Jing's side, she can play a buffering and mediating role, or even better, make Xiao Jing infatuated with her, so that he can control Xiao Jing without losing a single soldier!
Around dusk, as Dugu Pingting was wondering if Xiao Chengyao would come, the door was forcibly pushed open.
She was terrified when she saw the unfamiliar figure and was about to shout when Dugu Xuancheng swaggered into the house.
“Your mother cries every day, saying you are a lady from a respectable family, that you are good in this way and that way, but now you are so good that even your father doesn’t recognize you!”
Upon seeing his daughter, Dugu Xuancheng felt both anger and regret.
To have the audacity to poison the Empress Dowager, and to have done so for so many years, is, frankly, a result of inheriting some of his ruthless nature.
He was just a little lacking in temperament and experience, which allowed the Empress Dowager to catch him red-handed.
If I had known she had such courage and intelligence, I should have nurtured her properly; she might have become an asset.
"Father?" Dugu Pingting stared at the newcomer, her eyes wide with disbelief, and she even rubbed her eyes.
Dugu Xuancheng sat down and hummed in agreement. "What, can't your father come to see you?"
How have you been doing at the nunnery these days? Have you realized where you went wrong?
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