Lu Zhiyi was still shaken. If not for Liang Feiyu, she would have been the one caught in the act.
Liang Feiyu and Lu Zhiyi went to the scene where the illicit lovers had been caught. To their surprise, someone was trying to implicate her when they arrived.
That person pointed at the disheveled woman on the ground and said,
"Miss Lu, how could you do such a thing?
How could you do this in the Imperial Palace?"
Lu Zhiyi immediately stepped out from behind the crowd and said,
"What did I do?
I'm standing right here, and I haven't done anything.
Even if you want to frame me and ruin me, you should at least find a better excuse."
Everyone looked at the bedraggled woman on the ground, then at Lu Zhiyi, who stood there with her clothes perfectly neat, neither servile nor overbearing.
Someone stepped forward and brushed the hair away from the woman's face. Only then did everyone see that her face was unfamiliar. None of them knew her.
Qi Yanzhen flew into a rage and interrogated her on the spot, only to discover that she was merely a palace maid.
The man having an illicit affair with her was Qu Jingming, a notorious wastrel from Illusion City and the concubine-born son of a fourth-rank civil official.
Even Qi Yanzhen had heard of his reputation as a wastrel.
In the end, Qi Yanzhen bestowed the palace maid on Qu Jingming.
Lu Zhiyi looked gratefully at Liang Feiyu once again. Only then did she ask,
"You've saved me several times now, yet I still don't know your name. Would you tell me?"
"Liang Feiyu, heir to Marquis Pingyang."
Lu Zhiyi nodded.
"Lu Zhiyi. My father is Great General Baiwei."
Liang Feiyu nodded. "I know."
Lu Zhiyi looked at