Chapter 449: The White-Robed Appointment

Ao Zheng's reply came quickly, he did not wait overnight and had someone come over that very evening.

In front of Pei Jue, he made an exceedingly modest apology.

Feng Yun had just finished bathing and was wringing her hair by the stove when she heard Pei Jue talking with someone outside the door. She pricked up her ears and slowed down.

After a while, footsteps approached from behind, steady and with a familiar presence stopping behind her.

Pei Jue leaned in and took the towel from her hands to help her dry her hair.

"Why don't you let the maidservants attend to you?"

Feng Yun said with a smile, "Because the king doesn't like having outsiders in his room, ah. I don't want them staring at you either."

Half joking, half serious, there was little emotion in her words.

Pei Jue paused, his movements becoming even gentler...