The two were talking when Shangguan Yun emerged from the Sleeping Palace.
Shangguan Yun's eyebrows were tightly knitted, her thin lips pressed together.
Xiao Hen threw away the branch in his hand and, pulling Gu Jiao to stand up, asked Shangguan Yun, "What did the monarch say?"
Shangguan Yun frowned and said, "He told us to escape quickly."
If he hadn't said so, she would have already taken the children and fled.
But when he truly told her to flee, she no longer wished to.
Indeed, the human heart is the strangest thing in the world.
"There's no escaping," Xiao Hen said.
With the ambitions of Jin and Liang, not a single member of the Dayan royal family or Xuanyuan's descendants can hope to escape. Once Dayan's territories are trampled, there is only one outcome waiting for them.
Shangguan Yun nodded, "You should return to the Duke Residence first, I'll gather the ministers to discuss court affairs."
