Yueliduo pondered bitterly for three days. She did not seek another audience with Wang Chong, afraid he would simply anger her to death. Instead, she sent someone to invite Su Luoyan. Su Luoyan was rather surprised, unsure why Yueliduo wanted to see her, but she gladly accepted the invitation.
Wang Chong had neither the habit of favoring prisoners nor that of mistreating them. To him, prisoners had only two possible endings: the disobedient were killed, while the obedient were incorporated into the Tailwind Army, starting as laborers. If they performed well, they were assigned to the military officers under him.
Yueliduo lived in nothing more than an ordinary tent, without anyone to attend her. Apart from sealing her acupoints to suppress her martial arts, Wang Chong could not be bothered to restrict her movements. So long as she stayed within three hundred paces of the main tent, no one came to pester her.
Yueliduo judged that she could not escape, but she had brought back some of her own utensils. At the moment, she was brewing tea with leaves produced in Huizhou and a tea set from Huzhou. She had changed into the dress of a Central Plains lady. Had her appearance not differed from ordinary people, with eyes the color of lake water, an intoxicating blue, and skin like cold snow on high mountains, a startling white, she would have looked just like a well-bred young lady of the Central Plains.
Su Luoyan had not brought her personal maid either. She sat down opposite Yueliduo and said with a smile, "Have you thought something through, Great Consort?"
Yueliduo filled Su Luoyan's cup seven-tenths full and said calmly, "I am not of the Shangtuo Tribe."
Su Luoyan naturally knew that this great consort was a female disciple of the Eternal