To be honest!
Lin Daiyu and Tanchun had originally thought that once Annie had tossed Zhao Da and Zhou Hou down to the lower realm, leaving them to fend for themselves in some minor world, everything would be fine. No one could possibly find any valuable clues and trace them back to the two of them.
After all, there were countless minor worlds, and the Heavenly Court had no way to travel to them. There was simply no way to investigate, so they had both assumed they could sleep easy from then on.
But who could have guessed...
Only a few days had passed. The Imperial Consort's homecoming visit hadn't even happened yet—not even the New Year had arrived—and then everything changed.
See?
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One morning, while the little courtyard on the floating island where Daiyu and the others lived was bathed in the first light of dawn, while the winter sunlight lazily streamed through the window lattice and lit up the rooms and halls, and while a certain troublesome little girl was still fast asleep even with the sun shining on her backside, Lin Daiyu and Tanchun—both looking tense and urgent—hurriedly pushed open the door and rushed into the room of a certain troublesome little girl immortal, with the equally tense Zijuan and Xueyan right behind them.
As soon as they entered the room, they saw that sunlight was already streaming in through the window, but the expensive red sandalwood canopy bed was still covered by layer upon layer of gauzy curtains. Through them, they could make out a lump beneath the silk quilt, curled up in the middle of the bed.
"!!"
Seeing this, Lin Daiyu didn't bother with anything else. She went straight over and first had Zijuan and Xueyan gather up the heavy curtains. Then