Duanning Palace
Returning from Ningshou Palace, Xia Ruqing changed into her casual clothes and sat on the kang, staring silently at the scene outside the window.
Zi Yue stepped forward to comfort her.
"Empress, the Empress Dowager is getting on in years. You shouldn't take her words too seriously!"
"The matter of the royal selection should still listen to the Emperor!"
Xia Ruqing turned over lazily and lay down, sneering.
"I wouldn't even bother with it!"
"The harem already has so many people, what difference would adding another hundred make?"
When it comes to concubines, whether there's one or a hundred, it's all the same. It's nothing new.
I've endured all these years; why should I not bear this?
"My only worry now is that the Empress Dowager is up to her tricks again!"
She snorted coldly as she spoke.
"The Empress Dowager still has the nerve to claim she carried the Emperor for ten months!"
"Saying such nice things now, but what did she do back then?"
