Song Qingshu truly had never expected this. He had thought she was merely some little palace maid Li Qiushui had casually found in the imperial palace. After all, the palace lacked everything except pretty young maids. Yet this little maid was actually Tianshan Tonglao!
Tianshan Tonglao's face was flushed bright red. It was impossible to tell whether it was from shame or anger. She had been practicing her martial arts upstairs when Li Qiushui suddenly restrained her. She had assumed Li Qiushui meant to kill her, only for the woman to strip her naked and force a pink pill down her throat.
Her first thought had been that it was some poison like the Tendon-Severing Bone-Eroding Pill. Yet after a while, there were no signs of poisoning. Instead, her body grew hotter and hotter. Li Qiushui had looked at her with an especially strange, teasing smile. "Senior Sister, your junior sister is still thoughtful, isn't she? Knowing you've been lonely all your life, I specially let you have a taste of a man."
Then she had been sent to Song Qingshu's bed. Tianshan Tonglao had wanted to stop it, but the drug's effects had flared up within her, leaving her in a hazy, half-conscious state with only instinctive reactions remaining.
Only after Song Qingshu circulated his inner energy to dispel the drug from her body did she slowly regain consciousness. Realizing that she was completely naked and tangled up with him, she had nearly wanted to die. She wished the ground would split open so she could crawl inside.
She quickly noticed that Song Qingshu had not recognized her identity, which left her conflicted. In the end, she simply continued pretending to be unconscious, acting as though nothing had happened and deciding to get through the night first.
But how