Meanwhile, within the Renshou Palace, the atmosphere was oppressively somber.
News of Prince Xiang's detainment in the Zhao Prison of Xiuyiwei had arrived here half a moment ago. Yet, the Master of the Palace's mood did not improve; instead, it turned even more resentful and enraged.
"Yu Qiyu!" Empress Sun spat out through clenched teeth and her breath seemed to frost the corners of the room.
"How dare he! How dare he? This is utterly arbitrary and lawless! How could Yu Qiyu make a distant relative, a half-blood grandchild, the crown prince? Even a posthumous son at that. Qi Zhen, aren't all of your children more qualified than this bastard whose origins are unknown?"
"Don't these Ritual Officers and Literature Officers, and those scholars know this is against the rituals? To let a distant half-blood become the grand Imperial Grandson, did they swallow all their books?"
