Note: this chapter contains a flashback.
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The Empress immediately agreed with the Emperor, and it turned out that she immediately fell in love with the two orphans after meeting them for the first time. She even asked the imperial tailors to make the best clothes for them, and she also asked the palace cooks to cook their favorite food every day.
Zhang Hei even had the illusion that his mother had come to life once again in the form of the Empress, and that was because the Empress' warmth reminded him so much of his mother.
It seemed that he wasn't the one who thought that way because his brother's condition gradually improved as well after they moved into the palace. The Empress patiently took care of the boy, and the boy began to open up thanks to her affection and care. The boy was even willing to talk and laugh, and Zhang Hei couldn't have felt more relieved than that.
