With two people and a bird in tow, Nangong Ye naturally could not travel fast. By the time she returned to the Danyang Marquis Household near the Imperial City, it was already afternoon.
Since Momo and the others were all busy in the palace, no one was moving about the residence.
Nangong Ye landed before the two-story Main Room in the Rear Residence. Seeing that Xie Jinhuan still had his eyes closed and had not awakened, she quietly took him to the Second-Floor Bedroom first.
Jiang Xian helped carry Coal Ball along, her face a picture of "Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to be doing?" She surveyed the elegant mansion along the way. When they passed Jinhuan Pavilion and she saw the enormous Red Round Bed inside, disbelief entered her eyes.
"Such a big bed? Is this where Young Master Xie sleeps?"
Nangong Ye's icy expression stiffened slightly. Too embarrassed to say that this was the Danyang Marquis's pleasure house for toying with his mistresses, she merely said casually,
"It's a place for practicing. No one usually stays here."
As she spoke, she supported Xie Jinhuan into the normally furnished Master Bedroom and helped him lie down on the bed. She had intended to undo his outer robe, but discovered that he wore nothing underneath. As both his mother-in-law and the Daoist Sect's Iceberg Fairy, she could hardly ask Jiang Xian to leave so she could undress him alone.
She could only make do and cover him with the quilt first.
Standing behind her, Jiang Xian saw Nangong Ye bend over beside the bed, her black-and-white Daoist robe outlining the full, peach-like curve of her buttocks below her waist. Such long legs, such a big bottom, she muttered inwardly. Perhaps unwilling to reveal her slight