"Little Jujube, stop for a moment. The young master has ordered you to go see him in the side hall immediately."
"The young master?"
At those words, Xiaozhao's hands abruptly froze, and her heart skipped a beat.
Lin Xuan?
Why had he suddenly summoned her?
Could it be... could it be that her sneaking into Huan Shi Water Pavilion at night had been exposed?!
A powerful wave of anxiety instantly surged through her.
She took a deep breath, trying hard to calm herself. Lowering her head, she put on a timid, submissive act and followed the old servant woman toward the side hall.
Along the way, countless ways of dealing with the situation flashed through Xiaozhao's mind.
Yet when she reached the door of the side hall and glimpsed the white-clad figure standing inside with his hands behind his back through the crack, every excuse she had prepared vanished from her mind.
In their place came a memory that made her flush with shame.
That night by the hot spring pool, she had hidden behind an artificial rock and witnessed with her own eyes how this man had entangled himself with three beautiful maidservants in the water.
That strong body brimming with explosive power, that terrifyingly huge thing, and the wanton, coquettish cries of those three women...
Those scenes had been branded into the mind of this innocent young woman, impossible to erase.
That night, she had even experienced, for the first time in her life, an unspeakable reaction from peeping at such things.
Now, seeing the culprit again, Xiaozhao felt her cheeks burn. Even her delicate earlobes, hidden beneath her tangled hair, unconsciously took on a faint blush.
She had the illusion that this man's eyes could see through every one of her disguises and stare directly into the