Yan Shaoxuan said, "At the Hot Spring Palace, an assassin appeared!"
"What?!"
At the word "assassin," Shang Ruyi's eyes widened at once, while Yu Wenye beside her also knit his brows. Yet after his initial shock, he instead grew quiet, frowned slightly in thought, and suddenly asked, "Is it that an assassin appeared at the Hot Spring Palace, or that Father met with an assassination at the Hot Spring Palace?"
Hearing this, Shang Ruyi turned to look at him again in surprise.
Yan Shaoxuan was slightly taken aback. A faint glimmer of appreciation flashed in his eyes as he looked at Yu Wenye, but he did not show much of his emotion. After pondering for a moment, he said, "It was at the Hot Spring Palace that an assassin appeared."
Shang Ruyi silently drew in a deep breath.
An assassin appearing, and an assassination attempt—at first the phrasing sounds similar, but on closer thought, they are completely different matters.
