Not long after I became acquainted with Qingyan, I initially brought him with me to Gaochang out of sympathy because Bai Ruozhu was reminded of her father Bai Yihong in the distant Capital City whenever she saw him.
Over the course of our journey together, she had come to regard Qingyan as a familiar elder, but now she discovered that he might have been looking forward to their return all along, which naturally made her feel uneasy.
At that moment, a coughing sound came from the house; Qingyan had awakened.
Everyone looked toward the house. It seemed Qingyan had heard the monarch's words. He looked at Bai Ruozhu with some difficulty, not daring to meet her eyes, and struggled to get up. He bowed to the monarch and said, "Your Majesty, it has been many years since we last met."
Jun Haoran snorted coldly and said, "Didn't you go off to join the barbarian princess Sangshu? Now that you're back, don't tell me you have some unseemly motives?"