The next day, Song Jingchen and Shen Yijia entered the city as soon as the city gate opened.
When he returned home and changed his clothes, it was almost seven in the morning.
In the beginning, when he was investigating the girl's case, in order to make it convenient for him to enter the palace at any time to report the progress of the case, the emperor gave him a token to enter the palace.
Later on, the remnants of the previous dynasty were implicated. Even though the Song family's overturn of the case angered the emperor, the token was not taken back.
However, Song Jingchen was more inclined to believe that the emperor didn't take back the token because he had forgotten about it.
After all, this was the first time he had used this token after so long.
The guards outside the palace gate had changed to a batch of people he didn't recognize today. Song Jingchen pretended not to know.
