Hua Yan returned to the West Garden, where Yun Chi had already come back and was sitting in the Gallery Hall waiting for her to have dinner.
Hua Yan glanced at him and saw that he looked thoroughly exhausted, surely worn out by the flood disaster at Chuanhekou. The Emperor had recovered from his illness but didn't attend to court affairs, pushing everything onto him. Now, the Crown Prince was working harder than the Emperor himself.
This showed that there wouldn't be much difference even after he ascended to the throne in the future.
Yun Chi smiled at her, "I heard you spent the whole day reading in the Library Pavilion. I didn't realize you had such patience to quietly immerse in reading."
