“Your highness….” Fanny trembled. She would never forget his gaze for her whole life. It was terrifying.

The next second, Fanny squeezed a smile and pretended to be afraid. “I was wrong. I wasn’t making sense.”

Ambrose looked cold and did not speak nonsense but asked, “Let me ask you, why did you capture Aurora and Eira? What was their crime?”

Fanny hesitated and said carefully, “Your highness, you may have forgotten, but, when we were at the Emei Sect’ 1000th-anniversary celebration, you came to look for Eira. At that time, the Sect Master Senior Sister had told you Aurora had an unlawful relationship with a wild man and gave birth to Eira. She’s a bastard, a child out of wedlock. She disobeyed the rules of the sect, and logically we did what had to be done.

“Aurora broke the sect’s rules and humiliated the Emei Sect. It was logical for the Sect Master Senior Sister to capture the mother and daughter.”

Fanny acted naturally as if everything made sense.

When he heard that, Ambr