The Princess Consort performed the ritual gracefully, "Prince, please calm your anger. The wedding dress I'm wearing was bestowed upon me by the Empress, and she instructed that it must be worn today. I dare not disobey."
Mentioning the Empress, the Silent Prince couldn't find any fault with it.
The Princess Consort spoke up to smooth things over, "Since it was bestowed by Mother, the Princess Consort doesn't breach etiquette. It's getting late; hurry and perform the ceremony, so as not to delay the auspicious hour."
The consort, after all, still wasn't qualified to perform the wedding ceremony. As the head of the Silent Prince's Royal Residence, she wouldn't allow any opportunity for them to manipulate things like the wedding dress, so everything had to proceed according to the specifications for taking a concubine.
Then, a maidservant served tea, the Princess Consort first offered tea to the Silent Prince, then to the Princess Consort.
