Back inside the carriage, Zu An smiled at Zheng Dan. “Shall we continue?”

“No!” Zheng Dan frantically shook her head. The sudden developments just now had scared the living daylights out of her. If she had moved just a second later, they would have been exposed, and she would surely have died from embarrassment.

“Don’t worry. What are the chances that something unexpected will happen again?” Zu An continued to pester her.

However, Zheng Dan kept shaking her head, no matter how he tried to cajole her.

Meanwhile, outside the carriage, Huang Huihong frowned. Did this Zu An have some sort of fetish for having his legs massaged?

Only a scoundrel like him would make a distinguished daughter and the wife of an official do such a thing.

Huang Huihong shook his head. He couldn’t be bothered about this right now.

That ambush had set off some alarms within him. A bunch of nobodies had almost successfully killed Zu An. He didn’t dare show any more carelessness.

It wasn’t just him, either. The entire Imperial Guard seemed to share his nervousness.

However, the...