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Qi Xuansu said, “How could you come to a place like this by yourself? Aren’t you afraid of being eaten alive? Who gave you such courage?”
Qin Xiang looked at the corpse of her bodyguard with a complicated expression.
Noticing her gaze, Qi Xuansu asked, “Who is he?”
“He’s my milk brother,” Qin Xiang replied.
Most mothers from wealthy families did not nurse their own babies. Instead, they hired wet nurses, who also had their own children. The children who were nursed by the same woman had a milk kinship even though they had different parentage. Some milk siblings had close relationships because they grew up together. That was how some of the emperors chose their confidants.
Qi Xuansu glanced at the corpse. “He’s also a child who doesn’t know the dangers of the world. Did he agree to accompany you here as soon as you asked him to?”
Qin Xiang squatted beside the corpse and kept silent.
“What about the person who tricked you?” Qi Xuansu pressed on.
Qin Xiang shook her head.
Qi Xuansu did not bother to guess whether she was shaking her...
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