The beauty spoke, and Duke Tal naturally promised her everything, attentively escorting her back to the castle. He even had some beauty foods delivered to her for before sleep and personally picked a bouquet of flowers for her, to let her fall asleep surrounded by their fragrance at night.
Madame Butterfly rejected his probing, and Duke Tal, paying no heed to Xu Huo standing by his side, stroked his chin and entered the adjacent room. Shortly thereafter, one of the bodyguards left the castle.
Xu Huo's bedroom was on the third floor; after sending the two of them off, he returned to his own room.
With Mr. Dong there, he of course knew that a bodyguard had left the castle, but the bodyguards around Duke Tal were clearly skilled players; he couldn't afford to contemplate tracking them.
However, this Madame Butterfly was quite interesting.
"Sir, I've found two more of the notebooks you left behind earlier," Mr. Dong entered with the booklets and some food.