In order to see her daughter one last time, the Empress Dowager had been sustaining her life with herbal medicine for the past few days, and the Shou'an Palace was filled with a pungent smell of herbs.
When the family of three arrived, Fanghua could hear the sound of a woman's soft sobbing coming from the inner hall from afar.
Lu Xingzhou was not at liberty to enter the inner hall and stayed outside, greeted by the Chief Eunuch, Jiang Quan, of Shou'an Palace.
Even though he was not the Prince Consort, he was still the Empress Dowager's son-in-law, and the servants of Shou'an Palace dared not show him any disrespect.
Fanghua held her son's small hand and headed straight for the inner hall.
Upon entering, she saw several concubines kneeling in front of the phoenix couch.
