Lang Hua paid no attention to Li Xuanyue's grim expression. "After the Princess left yesterday, the Empress Consort made me kneel in Xihe Hall for two hours, and even had me peel a whole basket of walnuts for him with my bare fingers."
Lang Hua spoke in a tone as casual as if he were remarking on the weather.
His delivery lacked any dramatic fluctuations, but had anyone been trapped in Xihe Hall alongside him yesterday, they would have felt the sheer peril he faced within those walls.
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