Song Qingshu paused, then calmly poured her a cup of wine. "Why do you think it was a Princess Consort rather than a County Princess, a princess, or someone else?"
Jin Bingyun replied, "There are only a few Princesses, so it is easy to rule them out one by one. As for County Princesses, at first I thought it was Princess Shaomin, but after thinking it over, I realized that could not be right. Prince Ruyang's Mansion is heavily guarded now. It would be impossible for you to hide there without their knowledge, much less have the chance to bring me in as well."
"Later, I thought back carefully. Although that woman's voice last night had been disguised, I could clearly tell it was not the voice of a young girl. The County Princesses in the city are all quite young, so naturally it could not have been any of them."
Song Qingshu frowned. "That is not quite right. The unmarried County Princesses may be young, but plenty of them are married. Do they no longer count as County Princesses?"
Jin Bingyun shook her head. "Once County Princesses are married, everything depends on their husbands' families. The resources they can command are limited. I truly find it hard to imagine who could hide an Imperial Criminal like you."
Song Qingshu smiled. "But to leap from that to guessing it was some Princess Consort is rather abrupt, isn't it?"
Jin Bingyun pressed her lips into a smile. "Originally, it was only a casual guess. Even I did not quite believe it. But your reaction now has instead proven that my guess was right."
Song Qingshu had not expected this woman, who looked as pure as a blank sheet of paper, to dig a pit for him to jump into. Yet after