The moment the pipa string broke, the black cape of the Marshal had already wrapped around my shoulders.
"Miss Su's piano sound is more alluring than the rumors say." Xiao Jingheng's voice was like jade soaked in ice, but the way his fingertips brushed the fox hair on the tip of my ear made me tremble - he could actually tell that I was from the fox tribe?
"The Marshal is wrong." I tightened my grip on the pipa strap and backed away, hiding the banknotes I had saved for three years in my sleeves. "Wan Tang is just a concubine of the prime minister's house. How can she be a monster..."
"Prime Minister?" He suddenly chuckled, his red eyes glowing with the cold light unique to the wolf tribe under the candlelight, "When Lin sold you into the Red Sleeves, he didn't say that your mother was a princess of the fox tribe."
My back was pressed against the carved wooden window, and cold sweat soaked through my inner clothes - this man not only found out my identity, but also found out my mother's secret?
"Follow me." He took off the jade pendant from his waist and slapped it on the table. "From now on, no one will dare to call you 'monster', and no one will be able to lay a finger on you."
I stared at the jade with the word "Xiao" engraved on it, and my throat tightened.
Three days ago, my nails were broken by people sent by my aunt to force me to accept guests; now, this murderous god with an army of 200,000 people wants to treat me like a treasure?
"Wantang wants to escape to Jiangnan." I bit my lip and said, "Freedom is better than... Than anything else."
