“Son,” Wen Lian whispered a few hours after Bai Ruyi left Kazane’s chamber. “We must be leaving. It is getting dark out.”
Though Bai Ruyi nodded, he next drew the attention of one foreign attendant, asking her to go inquire if Kazane wished for him to leave.
Before this time, news had already reached them here that the captured attacker had identified their target earlier to be only Qing Xue.
Some moments after the attendant went off, she returned bearing a message from her mistress: Kazane was requesting for the prince to accompany her to the main palace early tomorrow in order to see the Emperor.
At Bai Ruyi’s nod, Wen Lian spoke to her son again.
“Ruyi, come back with me to the palace. It is not safe for you to be alone at your residence.”
As the two were speaking, they had begun
