Earlier, Consort Xian's Palace...
The maidservants retreated silently once the food and drinks were served. Inside, a beautiful woman in an aqua dress stood gracefully as her other servant helped her to wash her hand. Although the woman was in her early thirty, her skins were as smooth as when she had first entered the palace.
Consort Xian waved her hand, and the servant retreated tacitly. Then, the woman turned to the younger man beside him with her peach blossom eyes. "Why are you not eating? These are all your favorite snacks. You haven't come here for a long time, Zhi Hao, don't tell me that your taste has changed?"
Qin Zhi Hao snapped out of his thought the moment his mother spoke to him. He let out a helpless sigh and reached for the cakes on the plate. "That's not it. I have a few things in my mind."
