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"Outside the carriage, Zhao Yun kept pace, ducking and craning his neck to peer through the window. He hovered on the verge of speaking, full of questions but unsure where to begin."

"“Stop ahead at Zi Ming Pavilion,” Zhen Xiaoyin’s voice came from inside the carriage."

"The driver, Zhao Jia, raised an eyebrow in surprise. He recalled that since returning to the capital with his master, Miss Zhen had left the palace a few times—but she had never come to Zi Ming Pavilion, nor to this western market at all. The lane they were turning down led straight to the teahouse; if she wasn’t familiar with the area, how would she know to request it?"