The first night Lu Mingtang married Pei Zhiheng, he understood that the marriage was a one-year contract.
She calculated very clearly - to keep her position as a concubine and earn enough to go home and save her parents.
But Pei Zhiheng saw through her from the second glance.
He did not expose it, but only allowed her to use the marriage certificate to force the ceremonial officer to withdraw. He watched her check the dowry box by box, and allowed her to manage the military supplies from the inner courtyard. Even when she was questioned, he put the princess's seal in the palm of her hand in front of everyone: "I gave it to you, who dares to question it?"
His control was like a silent net: Xuanyu Ling allowed her to call the guard posthorses, but he also faithfully recorded her every route out of the city.
He saw the escape route she prepared.
The Cold War broke out the night she discovered the draft of the book she was preparing to leave.
The man held the thin paper and said in a voice as cold as the snow in the north: "From the day you married into the palace, you have been preparing to leave."
Lu Mingtang did not deny it.
He was silent for a long time, so long that she thought he would take back all authority.
Finally, the man who always controlled everything pushed the Xuan Yu Order to her along with a blank customs clearance document: "Lu Mingtang, if you want to leave, I will give you the most comprehensive way. But if you are willing to stay, from now on, wherever you want to go, you don't have to use the token to keep a file - I give you the freedom without reporting."
