The day I fell into Taiye Lake, he saved me. Everyone thought it was an accident. Only he looked at me and said, “You certainly jumped without hesitation, miss.”
He knew I'd done it on purpose. I knew he was deliberately keeping quiet.
Later, while investigating my father's case, I traced it to the Empress Dowager, to the Prince of Zhenbei, and finally to the truth about my own birth.
Whenever I was in danger, he was there.
I asked whose side he was on. He said, “Yours.”
I didn't believe him. Not until the day he took an assassin's blow for me, when I saw the jade pendant at his waist.
It was the one my mother had left me.
He said he'd been waiting for me for three years.
