She spent about half an hour in the bath. By the time she came out, the sky had already grown dark.
Cui Lingyao stood under the eaves in a light nightgown, looking up at the twinkling stars. 'I wonder if Xie Jinbai will come tonight,' she thought.
'He has to, right?'
If he really had people in the Duke Mansion watching her, how could he possibly restrain himself from coming after receiving news that she had spent the day boating on the lake with Shen Tingyu, holding his hand to pick flowers, and chatting intimately with him in a pavilion for a long time?
He was a cautious man. Whatever the reason for his suspicions about her identity, dispelling them wouldn't be something she could accomplish overnight.
'When he gets here, what will he do…'
The thought of that moody, domineering, and extremely possessive man made Cui Lingyao's skin crawl.
Fortunately, since he hadn't shown up in person, he probably wasn't certain that she was the Cui Lingyao from before.
