News of the Grand Empress Dowager giving Lanqi a good thrashing spread around the palaces like wildfire. With that came the realization that Xuanye would not, in fact, be making her his next Empress after all. Each crack of the whip had put an end to Lanqi's tenure as the most favored concubine in the Forbidden City, which had begun on the fateful day of the Lunar New Year. S he hadn't even lasted till Spring.
When she was sent back to the Palace of Accumulated Purity, Lanqi was so weak that she was hardly able to stand. The Imperial Doctors arrived frantically to treat her, but with her injury in such an awkward place, Lanqi refused to let them take a look at her wounds. In the end, Aunt Sumala arrived and put an end to this stalemate. Under the instructions of the doctors, she helped to clean up Lanqi's wound behind a curtain.
