As A-Xuan said he didn't go to court for the next few days. He would sleep in late, get ready with the help of his maids and after work, he would go out roaming the streets.
He did everything in his power to avoid the emperor and would send a eunuch to deliver his work.
His father sent multiple envoys to see him but A-Xuan sent him a letter telling him that he couldn't because of his whiplashes after exhausting himself at court that day.
Quickly all the ministers heard of what happened and understood his absence. A-Xuan used that excuse with everyone but only Yizhen knew that he would go out in secret every day.
After finding out the day after court that he went out he sent him a secret guard. He would receive reports of what he would do and see all day. Yizhen can't understand A-Xuan, everything about him is contradictory.
