Before the morning mist had even cleared, Lin Xinghe was already kneeling by the well, washing her third tub of clothes.
The linden-soaped water in the wooden basin had turned her fingertips pale, yet she remained seemingly indifferent, scrubbing with a steady, unhurried rhythm.
Out of the corner of her eye, she swept a glance toward the covered walkway—Lin Xiao's cyan-patterned satin boots were just stepping through the hanging flower gate, followed by a man wearing gray cloth working clothes, the collar revealing the tip of a grayish-green scale armor that looked identical to the one at the secret realm's exit last night.
Chapter 33