Song Xilan's words pushed Cao Ying into a perilous and awkward position.
This was the Empress's Flower Pin Banquet. As it was hosted by the Empress herself, all attendees must have undergone a rigorous selection process and received her personal approval.
Yet Cao Ying had chosen to stir up trouble over something even the Empress had approved of. Was she questioning Song Xilan, or was she questioning the Empress herself?
What's more, the most awkward part was that news of Cao Ying being confined by Mr. Cao had long since spread throughout the city's circles of noblewomen. Behind her back, they were all laughing at her!
Prince Ling has never even deigned to look your way, yet you go around declaring you'll marry no one else, stubbornly turning yourself into an old maid approaching her twenties! You even forced your own father to propose the marriage before the Holy Emperor, only for him to get a vicious tongue-lashing from Marquis Xuan Chang!
