Quiet room.
Li Taiqing paced back and forth, her childish, dumpling-like face belying a maturity far beyond her years, heavy with a grave solemnity.
On the cloud bed, Zhu Xiushi listened to the sequence of events, scarcely believing her ears. After a moment, she stammered: "So... you dual cultivated with him, and to avoid awkwardness, you played the fool until now... and you even kept calling him 'Dad'?"
Chapter 472