Chapter 10: A Private Meeting
When Li Hanguang first stepped into the sleeping palace, he immediately understood Xi Jiuge’s intention— she meant to kill him. She knew nothing about her old classmate of two thousand years, but he had observed her long enough. Even without speaking, he could read her habits with effortless clarity. Cold, arrogant, and detached— Xi Jiuge’s world contained only Baidi and Ji Shaoyu. Even if the eldest daughter of the Xiling Clan arrived, she would never be invited to sit on Xi Jiuge’s private couch. He, an outsider with whom she had a violent history, had no right whatsoever to enter her inner hall, let alone drink tea poured by her own hand. And when she handed him that jade cup, he recognized it instantly. Tianxian. The name sounded pure, almost celestial, but among the heavens it was the most infamous poison—beautiful as a blooming immortal flower, yet its petals held a toxin so swift an...
