"I never truly left the Bamboo Silk House," Wu Ningli explained. "Oh, publicly, of course I did. But once you enter the Dark Half of the House, you don't ever 'leave' as long as you're alive. Hall Master Bian granted me leave to follow my husband as long as I continued to provide intelligence and support to the sect. I hadn't become a person of any great importance by marrying Yun Kong but the people I came in contact with in the Shining Blade Hall were the sort of people that other members of the sect would find it difficult to reach so my position held enough value to the sect to allow me the freedom to marry and raise Ling'er outside of the sect."
"But when Father died, you went back." Wu Ling said, his heart beginning to grow numb to the shock of revelation.
