Koala Reads

"Her attitude was respectful and proper, without the slightest hint of overstepping. It seemed as if the ambiguity between the two of them behind the screen just now was merely an illusion. She shrank back into her proper - behaved shell once again, becoming the widowed woman in the Marquis's Mansion who kept herself out of worldly affairs."

""Humph.""

"The Emperor Jingxiang's interest, which had just been piqued, waned a bit."

"He released her wrist."