"Cough, sorry. I lost my composure..."
(Yelan never told me about this?)
Ningguang had many reasons for coming here, but there were only two most direct ones.
First, she had come to report on her duties and hand over her identity and authority.
Second... she had come to give that bastard Yelan a beating as Liu Bai's properly wedded wife.
Did climbing into his bed mean she had won?
She would show her why ancient times had bedchamber concubines!
Ningguang truly had not expected Jean, such an upright knight with such an honest face, to say something like "appearing as his wife."
(But it seems... Miss Barbara isn't very happy about this?)
Ningguang studied Barbara and Jean's expressions.
The displeasure in Barbara's expression when she heard the word "wife" was plainly visible.
(It seems Captain Jean hasn't settled matters at home.)
Ningguang had handled this far better.
Her own spymaster and the equally high-ranking Yuheng had long since climbed into bed with her.
And above them was Xianyun... or rather, Cloud Retainer, backing her up—though the prerequisite was that absolutely no one could find out what she was like in bed.
Combined with Liu Bai's prestige from the battle against Chiyou, the fact that Liyue had not submitted a petition signed by ten thousand people urging her to marry him already showed how much everyone respected her.
Still, seeing it was one thing. Ningguang had no desire to meddle in Jean's affairs.
"Miss Ningguang, do you know where Lord Liu Bai has gone?"
"He went to the Sky Dome Zone. He'll be back today... Since there are quite a few extraterrestrial visitors in this household, they like to call such a trip 'going out for a walk.'"
"I see."
Her initial question had been answered.
After that, the atmosphere between