"How is the taste?"
"Not bad."
Ji Ruyan replied with two words, and Wen Pin smiled warmly, "You just went to see the Grand Empress, right? Truthfully, she's tough on the outside but soft on the inside. I don't know why you've been avoiding her all these years. On the surface, she seems indifferent to the affairs of the harem, but in reality, she's been shielding Noble Consort Bing. Back when Noble Consort Bing was just a concubine and the Emperor was favoring her exclusively, the Grand Empress warned him against such favoritism, saying it would only harm Consort Bing. However, the Emperor..."
Wen Pin stopped here, leaving the sentence unfinished.
Ji Ruyan rolled her eyes slightly, could it be, according to Wen Pin, that the Grand Empress was secretly concerned for her mother consort?
However, the incident with the Xu Mansion back then indeed left her with a sense of oddity.
