"Yue Langjun, this…" It was rare for Cao Mingbao to hesitate to grant Yan Zheyun entry into the emperor's study but today, Cao Mingbao took one look at the simple bowl of noodles that Yan Zheyun carried on a lacquered tray and started shuffling his feet with indecisiveness.
A/N: Thank you very much for reading and for the lovely gifts, comments, golden tickets, and power stones! <3
This chapter took a very long time to write and I had to revise a significant part of it because I didn't initially intend to drop so much information at this point about Liu Yao and his mother. But after a lot of deliberation, it did feel like the right place to do it. So here it is!
Banquet. Next chapter. Promise. (':