Cheng Yuexiu's repeated inquiries left Yaner with no inclination to explain further. With a quick "farewell," she turned and hurried back to the mansion, needing to promptly inform her mistress about Dong Qing accompanying Lin Yuan to dine out.
"How could she!" Watching Yaner's retreating figure, which seemed to be fleeing, Ah Ling pouted and muttered to herself, "Just takes the silver and runs, how unprincipled!"
But Cheng Yuexiu's eyes showed a glint of cunning. In the year she spent with Su Qiuyu, she had not been completely oblivious. She had heard a few things, it seemed that Miss Su's beloved, Second Young Master Xia, had met a young woman in Zhuma Town and had even skipped returning to the capital during New Year's because of her.
Could it be that the young woman who had come to the capital was this very person?
