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Fortunately, a palace attendant brought up the register of ladies participating in the selection of concubines, saving Empress Zhang Lanyi from a predicament.
"There indeed are a lot of young ladies participating in the selection, from the Zhang Family, the Wang Family, the Li Family,... every notable family in the Capital City is in it, but there are some subtleties," said Zhang Lanyi as she passed the register to Yan Wanqing.
Yan Wanqing needed only a brief glance to understand the situation.
It all came down to the fact that only the lesser daughters of truly powerful families were participating.
The true eldest daughters were not listed.
And for those families that were slightly declining, one could vaguely see some eldest daughters named in the register, such as those from the Zhang and Wang families.
