Leveraging Anning's considerable prestige, the two individuals on the brink of ending their friendship were forcefully pulled back from the edge of a fallout.
But the atmosphere between them remained extremely awkward.
Anning understood; after all, they had almost come to blows, with harsh words on the tip of their tongues before he abruptly hit the brakes.
It would be odd if it weren't awkward.
Anning could only patch things up further: "By the way, Dan Dong, it was I who denounced Paul Balas. I was the one who intercepted the letter from Madame Boarne to Paul Balas."
Right, let the hatred come at me, so you won't break with Robespierre.
Dan Dong looked at Anning with surprise: "You intercepted Madame Boarne's letter to Balas? Why?"
"Because my fiancée surmised that this letter would contain something detrimental to the Republic, and she wasn't wrong. Balas places his own interests first, even at the expense of France's.
