Catastrophe
After receiving entourages and gifts for another whole day, Lai Mingjie felt so exhausted. He then walked along the hallways, in search of one of the rooms in the Imperial Mao Residence. What he didn't expect to see was Xu Rouguang standing in the middle of the hallway, facing one of the walls. Xu Rouguang then turned to him as he got closer.
"What are you looking at, wife?" Lai Mingjie yawned as he walked next to him and draped an arm along Xu Rouguang's shoulders. He then looked at the wide panel on the wall where Xu Rouguang was facing. It didn't have anything on it, and that made it suspicious.
"This place... used to have a path to Emperor Xue's room. It's hard to see before, and it would only be open to those Emperor Xue wanted to see." Xu Rouguang hummed, keeping the melancholic smile on his face. He reached out and patted the wall. "This panel would disappear, and a long hallway would lead to his room.