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Chapter 29 Inside the Fu Ning Palace
"... Your Majesty, please uphold justice for me!"
Side hall, Fu Ning Palace.
There was a fierce atmosphere in the hall, but the emperor sitting on the throne was looking bored.
On the right of the throne was kneeling Commandery Princess Ningyi Qiu Yelan and scholar Ruan Qingyan. Now Qiu Yelan was crying sorrowfully. As for the person she was crying to, or at least apparently so, the emperor's sight occasionally swift to a yellowish bottle of GuiGuZi descending from a mountain. He found it quite new for him and wondered if this has been recently changed.
But not necessarily... he hasn't been to Fu Ning Palace for a long time, maybe he's wrong.
He should have been in charge of the royal court since he was married at the age of sixteen.
However, Empress Dowager Gu continued to control the court from behind on the pretext of his lack of experience. Later, the senior officials had too much discontent against it, espec
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