The light was dim.
The wooden window was slightly ajar, through which the night breeze could be heard outside.
The young man approached her step by step under the faint light.
Lu Tong's heartbeat raced.
She had long suspected that her identity would eventually be exposed; there was no doubt about that. But she had not expected it to come this quickly.
Fearing discovery by the Grand Preceptor's Mansion, and exposure in the midst of her revenge, she had always stayed in the shadows of the entire affair. Visiting the Ke Chengxing Mansion to claim her dowry, treating Scholar Wu's mother, and administering acupuncture to the Examiner Official's wife, she had never dealt with people from the Grand Preceptor's Mansion directly.
The only time she saw Qi Yutai, even then, he hadn't clearly seen her face in the night.
