Bab 28: Eve of Change I

"Had you known, you wouldn't have gotten injured and been forced to hide and seek help, is that right?" Meng Fuyao cast him a glance. "You're from the Yun Family?"

"Yun Hen. An adopted son," he introduced simply.

Meng Fuyao's eyes flickered as she thought about the fact that the feud between the Yun and Pei families had been caused due to Yuan Zhaoxu and herself.

Guilt led to digression. "Isn't Qi Xunyi skillful?" she threw a rhetorical question, flicking the map of the Forbidden City that Yun Hen had given to her. "He doesn't control the troop, does he? How will he act then?"

"I have no idea," replied Yun Hen, deep in thought. "I suspect that someone is assisting him."

"Who?"

After a brief pause, he answered, slowly and gravely, "Zhangsun Wuji."

Meng Fuyai raised her brows in astonishment and asked, "He's a prince from another nation. Why would he get involved in Taiyuan's matters?"