Shangguan Haitang looked at Lin Lang. "I don't believe you, and I won't become your subordinate."
That was what she said, but doubts had already formed in her heart.
Everything her adoptive father had asked her to do seemed intended to keep the Eastern Depot in check and maintain stability at court, but the deaths of Brother Duan Tianya and Brother Yidao were truly too suspicious.
If Iron Claw Flying Eagle really was her adoptive father's man, then her adoptive father should have been capable of rescuing Brother Duan and Brother Yidao, yet he had chosen to kill them.
If he could abandon two adopted sons in the past, he could abandon her, his adopted daughter, in the future.
Thinking back to the several times her adoptive father had suggested she marry Wan Sanqian, it had all seemed to be for her own good, but perhaps it was also for Number One Manor and Wan Sanqian's wealth, which rivaled a nation's.
Lin Lang smiled. "You don't have to be my subordinate."
She could call him Daddy just as she did Zhu Wushi. He would shower his good daughter with affection.
Shangguan Haitang was puzzled. "Aren't you practicing Cao Zhengchun's Heavenly Dipper Child Skill?"
"You've kept a woman from a Pleasure House in your residence all this time, and those sorts of sounds often come from it. Everyone thought you'd long since lost your virginity. Who would have thought you'd fooled them all?"
"What, do you intend to give up such a powerful skill?"
Lin Lang put on a deeply devoted expression. "I wouldn't mind breaking my Child Skill for you. It was love at first sight for me."
The first time he had laid eyes on Shangguan Haitang, he had wanted to sleep with her. Wasn't that love at first