Tsk, tsk, tsk...
Ye Jingtang was genuinely surprised to see a row of Yellow Books. Had he not been on official business, he would have picked one up to read.
He swept aside his distracting thoughts and turned to continue searching for clues, but suddenly felt something was wrong. Looking back, he carefully examined 《Secret History of the Seductress》 and found that it was not sitting straight, as though someone had read it recently and casually put it down.
Seeing this, Ye Jingtang carefully picked up the book and lightly ran his fingers along its edges.
If a book was frequently opened, especially to a particular page, creases would develop at the binding over time, making it easier to fall open to that page.
Ye Jingtang had spent years repeatedly studying a copy of Tears of the Chivalrous Woman. An old bookworm himself, he understood this well.
Carefully feeling along the edges, he soon discovered that one page was indeed different from the others. He opened it and looked-it described a certain empress dowager digging a tunnel out of the palace to conduct an affair with an heir, then taking poison to fake her death and being buried in the Imperial Mausoleum. The heir secretly dug a tunnel into the mausoleum and took the Empress Dowager away...
Did this Heir of Prince Wu have fantasies about the Empress Dowager?
Ye Jingtang instinctively analyzed the heir's sexual preferences, but on further thought, that did not seem right.
Having studied Tears of the Chivalrous Woman for years, he knew far better than any constable which passages deserved a ten-line glance and which deserved lingering over, word by word.
The two marked pages contained no sex scenes. Instead, they described tunneling into the Imperial Mausoleum in considerable detail, including "how to break through