Chu Lu had a bit of a headache at the moment.
There seemed to be some secrets hidden within Cuihua, but he had no idea how to unravel them.
He opened the Chat Group's task interface again and found that the task could now be confirmed as complete.
So he thought, Forget it. Let's leave it at that for now.
He rose to leave.
"Hey! Why are you leaving?" Cuihua cried in shock. "Let me out too!"
"No rush. Stay in there for a while longer," Chu Lu said.
"How can you do this?! We're fellow townsfolk!"
Ignoring Cuihua's cries, Chu Lu returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation and gave the matter another careful thought, checking for anything he might have overlooked.
But no matter how he thought about it, nothing seemed amiss.
Marquis Zhenbei was bound to fail. Before long, Chu Lu would probably receive news that the marquis had been imprisoned.
As for Liu Jinli, who had been released alongside the Empress, she had long since been captured again.
"Mm. I shouldn't be needed here anymore." Chu Lu nodded. "Xu Liniang, the matter is settled. It's about time for me to head back."
"Thank you, Chu Lu." Xu Liniang thanked him sincerely, then asked, "But how should we deal with Cuihua?"
"That's for you to decide," Chu Lu said. "Whether you keep her well-fed and well-treated, or torment her day and night, it's all up to you."
Chu Lu thought that there was not much bad blood between him and Cuihua, so he had no particular urge to do anything to her. Besides, when all was said and done, he was an outsider in this affair. Xu Liniang was different. Both the suffering of her past life and the troubles of this one had been caused by