It turns out Lee had really been hiding in the remote area for quite sometime, she had no clue of what was going on in the capital. All he knew was Masher got married to a brutal and dishonest man who loved the company of the ladies but who lived in brothels. Lee didn't know that Masher gave birth to a healthy baby girl, perhaps the news of the heir were kept inside the palace and I had to give it up to the servants who didn't gossip about it considering how the gossips never seemed to stay inside that palace. Or perhaps they were threatened, or worse not allowed to go outside until Masher was ready to speak it out loud.