Not long after dawn, a waiter brought them breakfast and informed them that they were free to move about within the designated areas of the castle today, noting that there would be another ball in the evening.
Both men possessed energy levels far beyond the ordinary. After breakfast, neither felt the slightest bit sleepy, so they prepared to go out and look around.
While waiting for Qi Jingtao, Shang Yu paced the room and suddenly discovered a gap between the wardrobe and the wall. Since there was nothing there that could harm him, he pulled the wardrobe aside, revealing a clean, bare wall—there was not the slightest trace of a secret passage. Seeing this, he quickly opened the wardrobe doors and found that the interior was perfectly tidy; there were no mechanisms, and the secret passage had simply vanished. He probed with his senses and found that the layer of black mist he had seen last night was also gone. It was now just an ordinary wardrobe against an ordinary wall.
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