Concealing the Truth

Seeing Madam Tang sleeping so sweetly in bed, Huang Rong could not help but sigh. "What a breathtaking beauty, the kind anyone would pity at the sight of her!"

A person's acupoints would automatically unblock after several hours, so Madam Tang's had already been released. However, when they had been released in the middle of the night, she had instinctively gone back to sleep.

Hearing movement beside her, Madam Tang opened her drowsy eyes and saw an incomparably beautiful, alluring young matron standing before her. The charm radiating from Huang Rong's every movement even astonished Madam Tang, who had always been proud of her own beauty. But she quickly came to her senses. Though this woman was beautiful, the anger in her eyes suggested she had come with ill intent. "Guards..."

Madam Tang instinctively tried to cry for help, but before she could make a sound, she saw a pair of eyes as brilliant and beautiful as gemstones.

"Look at me... look at me..." Huang Rong stared intently into Madam Tang's eyes, her voice gradually becoming hazy and unreal.

It turned out that after Huang Rong returned last night, she had soaked in the bath until nearly dawn. The increasingly cold water gradually calmed her down, and she finally realized there was a huge flaw in her earlier plan: when Song Qingshu told Madam Tang about last night the next day, she would surely be utterly confused.

Although Huang Rong had arranged the scene with perfect realism, perhaps Madam Tang would merely think that exhaustion had caused her to forget some of what had happened that night and would not grow suspicious. But Huang Rong could not take that risk. Song Qingshu was a meticulous man; if Madam Tang's reaction exposed a flaw to him, all of last night's efforts