She looked at Jiang Sheng, her heart aching with dismay.
"First to Scale the Walls, you said you wouldn't make the lord..."
He was a grown man who weighed well over a hundred pounds... Could he really live with himself after tricking an innocent, pure-hearted thirteen-year-old boy?
At that moment, silence spoke louder than words.
Shen Tang's expression said more than a thousand words could.
Jiang Sheng said, "I did say that."
[The lord does not doubt his minister; the minister does not fail his lord.]
Jiang Sheng's earlier answer surfaced in Shen Tang's mind.
She nearly choked on a mouthful of blood. You call that an answer? You dodged the question so thoroughly that you might as well have said nothing!
Shen Tang's face turned faintly green. Kang Shi, sitting beside Qi Shan, felt inexplicably guilty and let his mind wander off.
Come to think of it—
Did the lord know about the side effects of his Way of the Scholar?
Kang Shi wasn't entirely sure.
Shen Tang didn't force Jiang Sheng to confess on the spot. He could tell her that secret in private later. For now, the most important thing was to get to the bottom of the old feud between him and Yuan Liang. Unless they resolved it, there was no way to expect the two of them to get along.
If they managed to go a few days without tripping each other up, that would be a miracle.
She said, "Sigh, let's set this aside for now and talk about it later. What exactly happened between you and Yuan Liang?"
On the surface, Shen Tang wasn't taking sides, but Jiang Sheng ought to understand that Qi Shan had been with her for a long time. Their bond was far beyond anything Jiang Sheng could match.