Hua Yan, despite not being a person who shuns ugliness and favors beauty, couldn't help but be overjoyed upon seeing a beauty as resplendent as flowers and jade. Initially, half the reason for coming to the Capital City was for the beauties in the Eastern Palace; however, after entering the palace, she was utterly disappointed to find not a single beauty there.
Now, having seen Zhao Qingxi, she truly felt that Zhao deserved the title of Nanchu's foremost beauty. Her heart couldn't help thinking that Yun Chi was simply blind and his heart clouded with lard; how could he honor such a perfect and delicately tender beauty and not choose her, who wasn't even mentioned by name in the roll of beauties?
Had it not been for his several unseemly advances toward her, she would have suspected that the massive emptiness of the Eastern Palace's inner quarters was due to his ill health.
