What exactly happened?
He sat on the chair, his brows furrowed tightly, lost in thought, when Chi Jian walked in from outside.
"My lord," Chi Jian said, "someone from Zhao Ning Manor has come."
"They say the ancestral hall caught fire and that the tablet of the lady of the house has been damaged. They ask that you return immediately to deal with the matter."
Before the words were finished, Pei Yunmeng suddenly looked up, "What?"
...
In the ancestral hall of Zhao Ning Manor, the somber ranks of memorial tablets were chilling.
A man in brocade stood before the tablets, holding incense sticks, paying respects one by one.
A "bang" resounded as the door was pushed open, and someone walked in from outside.
The moment Pei Yunmeng entered the ancestral hall, he immediately looked towards a certain direction. Upon seeing that the rows of memorial tablets and the intact wooden beams, his expression instantly darkened.
"You lied to me?"