Qiu Yao was startled by his words; she was completely caught off guard.
She waved her hands repeatedly in alarm. "No, no, no, Eunuch Ding, please, you go ahead."
"This isn't the Imperial Palace," he said, once again playing the card that never failed to lower people's guard. "Everything here is inconvenient. I’m a eunuch—what are you afraid of?"
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