Song Qingshu smiled. "That man could never repay what he owes you in a lifetime, yet whenever you mention him, you do not seem particularly angry. It looks like you intend to make him repay his debt of gratitude with his body."
Zhao Min blushed. "What nonsense are you talking about!"
Song Qingshu merely smiled without replying. He looked around the secret chamber but found nothing unusual. Zhao Min truly was no ordinary woman. Had an ordinary woman been locked up for so long, she would probably have gone mad from confinement already. "Miss Zhao, have you been living well here?"
Zhao Min rolled her eyes irritably. "Why don't I lock you up in here for this long and see how you like it?"
Song Qingshu felt somewhat guilty as well. As a Golden Branch Jade Leaf, how had she ever suffered such hardship? He had been busy with one thing after another lately and had not had time to attend to her. Fortunately, he had remembered to have someone bring her food and water, or she might have starved to death by now.
"I have indeed been a rather poor host these past days. If you have any requests, feel free to make them now. So long as I can fulfill them, I certainly will," Song Qingshu said.
"If I asked you to let me go, would you agree?" Zhao Min sneered.
"Anything but that." Song Qingshu shook his head.
Zhao Min fell silent. Just as Song Qingshu assumed she was resisting through silence, she suddenly spoke. "I want to bathe and change clothes."
"Ah?" Song Qingshu did not react at first. He had imagined Zhao Min taking this opportunity to devise all sorts of ways to escape, but he had never expected her first request to be a