After the incident of assassins killing civilians on the streets of Yanjing City had stirred up public unrest and the culprits were not apprehended, another major event occurred in the palace just two days later.
Consort Li was speaking with Ji Wan, a young and beautiful maiden recently sent by the Ji family. Ji Wan was charming, although not as outstanding as Consort Li when she first arrived, yet now was in her prime, vibrant like a newly blossomed bud—crucially, she was only sixteen years old.
