Lu Changfeng met her gaze and paused inwardly for a moment, then chuckled. "Come on. Let's head back."
Qing Dai lowered her lashes and answered softly, "Yes." A barely perceptible catch lingered in her voice. She silently followed Lu Changfeng, never once looking back at Cloud-Deep Pavilion.
Luo Qingge leaned beside the window and gently opened a narrow gap with her fingertips, watching master and servant disappear into the darkness outside Moon-Gathering Tower until they were out of sight.
She gently closed the window, her brows drawing together as thoughts flashed through her mind. The Princess of Zhen Guo's Residence... I have to help him escape this whirlpool. Sitting around waiting for an opportunity is no solution. I have to break the deadlock myself...
[Bird-Speech Art] uses birds as one's eyes and ears. If I can master this extraordinary art and see what lies ahead, I can accomplish twice as much with half the effort... As long as I can find some way to hold back that colossus, the Princess's Residence, I can take him away from this land of trouble!
I still have to obtain the mystic bone in Henei Commandery... Changfeng, I'm afraid I can't wait for you to join me this time. But that's all right. Mountains and rivers stretch ten thousand miles, and the years ahead are long. I, Qingge, will repay today's promise with tenfold, a hundredfold the opportunities. Wait for me.
On the way back to the Princess's Residence.
Qing Dai could not help asking softly, "Sir, Master Luo... seems to treat you quite differently."
Lu Changfeng replied casually, "We both study music. As fellow travelers on the same path, it's only natural that we appreciate each other."
Qing Dai pressed her lips together, about to say more, when she suddenly saw Lu