Luo Jiang froze, then quickly understood. She took the slip of paper, and when she looked at Jiang Yi again, her gaze had changed somewhat. Jiang Yi had suddenly slipped her a note—could he also be someone the Imperial City Office had planted here?
But she had heard he was one of the Crown Prince's old hands, not a newcomer.
After handing over the note, Jiang Yi said, "Miss Luo, aren't you going to read it?"
Luo Jiang found it a little strange, but merely reading the note could do no harm. She unfolded the folded paper and lowered her eyes to it.
"Boom!" At that single glance, the contents struck her like a thunderbolt. Her entire head buzzed, her face instantly turning deathly pale as she struggled to say, "M-Mother..."
Mother was already gone? She had passed before Luo Jiang could support her?
Standing opposite her, Jiang Yi watched as the girl's pale face swiftly took on an ashen gray hue.
Luo Jiang did not even ask Jiang Yi whether the note was true. She knew perfectly well what circumstances her mother was in. That was why, despite possessing martial skills, she had worked for the Imperial City Office.
Moreover, very few people knew that she still had a birth mother. No matter how desperately she wished this were false, there was every possibility it was true.
What if... what if it was true?
No! She had to return home and see at once!
After a brief dizzy spell, Luo Jiang could no longer care about anything else. Without another word, she rushed outside.
"Hey? Miss Luo, you're leaving just like that? Shouldn't you ask Prince Dai for leave first?" Seeing this, Jiang Yi immediately followed after her, pretending to call out anxiously from behind.
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