When Qing Xue arrived at a separate building where the interrogations were being conducted, he found that he was not the first person who went there wanting to see Wen Lian.
In a hidden and partitioned corner, the Emperor already sat, listening to the woman who had once been favored by him spilling everything she knew.
Or so she made it sound like.
She said that an agent working for the Yuans had approached that Wen servant. This much was true. They had tempted him with rewards that meant he would never have to work a day again in his life. But his loyalty to the Wens ran deep, and thus, he only made the agent believe he was eager to do whatever was asked of him.
Secretly, as the matter seemed to be related to the First Prince, he had sent Wen Lian a message that said the Yuans were up
