"Well..."
Jin Sheng listened to the White-Haired Elder, his face full of embarrassment.
He hadn't really offended anyone at the Hidden Edge Banquet, had he?
At most...
He had merely glared at Jiang Xiaobai a few times in displeasure.
Of course, he was also rather relieved that all he had done was glare.
Otherwise, given Jiang Xiaobai's tendency to act without hesitation, he might really have blasted him with that thing!
Outside the Imperial Study in the Imperial Palace.
Xiao Jinxuan slowly walked out with Eunuch Gao and looked up at the night sky, visibly puzzled.
"That's not right!"
After looking for a moment, Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help saying, "That sound just now was like rolling thunder. Why doesn't the sky look as though it's going to rain?"
Indeed, he had come outside because he had heard that rumbling sound.
He had thought rain was coming, yet the night outside was peaceful.
There were a few clouds, but the stars shone brilliantly.
No matter how he looked at it... it didn't seem like rain was coming.
Eunuch Gao also glanced upward, then bowed slightly. "Your Majesty, perhaps this is the legendary thunder without rain!"
"Oh?"
Xiao Jinxuan raised his brows, then finally nodded lightly. "Perhaps!"
With that, Xiao Jinxuan gave it no further thought.
Great Hua covered a vast territory. A few strange celestial phenomena were hardly surprising.
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the Imperial Study.
A eunuch hurried over, with another figure following behind him.
"Your Majesty!"
The eunuch approached and said respectfully, "The person you summoned has arrived!"
As his words fell, the man behind him took two steps forward and bowed. "Your subject, Qin Zhaoye, pays his respects to Your Majesty!"
Indeed, the newcomer was Qin Zhaoye, who had placed second in this Military Examination.
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