Yun Chaoxi obediently replied, "Be dignified and composed."
Madam Yun nodded, took a step back while supporting her daughter's shoulder, and looked her up and down.
She had only wanted to check if her daughter had lost weight and whether she was doing well in the palace, but she immediately noticed the mottled red marks on her daughter's neck, which spread from her slender, fair neck down to the snow-white skin hidden beneath her clothes.
The daughter's face was rosy and tender, as if you could squeeze water out of it, and her eyes were full of spring, just like a peony bud about to bloom.
Her figure is more shapely than before, slim where she should be slim and curvy where she should be curvy.
Madam Yun blushed.
This...it seems her daughter is doing much better in the palace than she thought.
The mother and daughter had a long private conversation, and Madam Yun even had breakfast with Yun Chaoxi.
Looking at the dishes on the table, which were even more exquisite than those in the Prime Minister's residence, Madam Yun felt relieved, though still a little uneasy.
"I heard that Consort Xian in the palace is pregnant. You must stay away from her. I know you are smart, but which of these concubines in the palace hasn't been here for several years? You grew up under the protection of your family, and you are not as cunning as them, so you should avoid them."
Yun Chaoxi thought to herself that she probably wouldn't be allowed to avoid Consort Xian even if she wanted to. She had already prepared herself to fight with these people when she chose to enter the palace.
...
Although it was called a night banquet, the banquet actually started in the afternoon.
Half past noon, Chu Xiao came to fetch Yun Chaoxi to the Taihe Palace. Consort Xian also came with the Empress Dowager, followed by several concubines who remained in the palace.
As soon as Consort Xian sat down, Yun Chaoxi felt a gaze filled with malice fall upon her.
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