Xie Xun's screams like a slaughtered pig echoed from the room. The Imperial Physician was applying medicine to him, and from the sounds of it, one would think they had a vendetta against him.
Ah Juan and a few others stood in the courtyard, the night breeze blowing away her intoxication, sending a chill down her spine.
"The Old Emperor is terrifying. Even when you're drinking in the Duke Mansion, he knows what's happening from the palace..."
Liu Miaoying learned from her father that the Emperor sent people to secretly protect Ah Juan, but she hadn't expected that His Majesty would also want to know everything Ah Juan was doing, saying, and whom she was meeting.
They hadn't been drinking for even an hour when someone from the palace arrived.
Liu Xuan lowered his eyes in thought. If Duke Ping Mansion had His Majesty's informants, those from the palace wouldn't have come so quickly. Otherwise, if the Duke knew, it would harm the relationship between the sovereign and his subjects.
