Dugu Zixuan patted her shoulder, her tone and expression both utterly calm.
Yet Dugu Yueli sensed the smell of scheming behind it, but there was nothing she could do. She could only obediently sit down.
She could rush out now and join up with her uncle, but with just the two of them, there was absolutely no way they could leave the Great Wall Dao Palace.
Inside the scene, in the side hall next door.
Lin Heng and Qin Hongyi sat facing each other, four or five meters apart.
Lin Heng lifted his teacup to wet his throat. Raising his eyes, he noticed that a Dao Pearl on the ceiling had changed from green to yellow, indicating that his mother had already brought Moon Glass over.
She was watching them right now!
She had come at precisely the right time. This was the tacit coordination of mother and son.
Qin Hongyi sat there silently sipping tea, also pondering what to do next.
Because what Lin Heng had said might have been rough, but the reasoning was sound.
At a critical juncture like this, Little Yueli really could not go back. Being scolded was one thing, but what about her liking Lin Heng?
They could not seriously tell Dugu Wuwu and the others, could they?!
But they could not hide it forever, either. Sooner or later, she would be held accountable for doing something like this; it was merely a matter of sooner or later.
From the standpoint of an uncle, he naturally did not want his niece to be dragged into this storm. Yet she had already sunk into it and could not get out.
*Yueli doesn't want to leave right now. If I forcibly take her away, it will probably cause no end of trouble. For now, I can