The next morning.
Xiao Mo had just gotten up to wash the vegetables when he heard Master Niu and the others chatting. The Eldest Miss, Tushan Jingci, had tried to sneak out of the manor last night, but one of the maids had caught her.
The Eldest Miss had shouted, "I don't want to go back!" while the maid carried her away tucked under one arm.
The Eldest Miss was now confined to her room by Madam Tushan, where she had to face the wall and reflect on her mistakes.
Remembering how confident Tushan Jingci had looked last night,
Xiao Mo couldn't help smiling.
She was only a five-year-old girl. She probably possessed no more than the innate, most basic concealment art of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox clan, and had likely not even begun her cultivation.
How could she possibly escape?
Still, Xiao Mo was rather curious.
Immortal Fox City wasn't some lawless place, and who in the city would dare disrespect the Eldest Miss of Tushan Manor?
So why wouldn't Madam Tushan let her daughter take a single step outside?
Just as the matter of the Eldest Miss's escape from the manor came to an end,
in a courtyard at Tushan Manor,
a beautiful woman sat in a wooden chair.
She wore a moon-white, strapless palace dress, with a sheer shawl of the same color draped over it.
The shawl was very thin. The texture of the fabric beneath could be seen through it, though not quite clearly.
Her legs were crossed, her right pale leg resting atop her left, the knee turned slightly outward. The hem of her skirt had slipped open along the line of her legs, revealing a stretch of thigh that looked like fine mutton-fat jade soaked in warm water.
Higher up, the bodice held