"I want to go, then."
Celebrating a festival meant liveliness, and liveliness meant plenty of snacks.
Su Baiwen panicked and quickly tugged at her sleeve. "Sis..."
A fierce wolf beside them had already opened its jaws wide, yet his sister not only refused to run but was even heading straight into its mouth. Was she trying to scare him to death?
Su Qiao turned and entered the room. Only after Su Baiwen followed her inside did she speak coquettishly:
"Brother, I haven't left the palace in two years. I've almost forgotten what the outside world looks like."
All the words Su Baiwen wanted to say were stuck in his throat. His heart ached with guilt. "I'm sorry. Your brother came too late."
"You want to go see the lanterns? Then go."
With him keeping an eye on things, Ye Jinghua couldn't pull any tricks anyway.
"Thank you, Brother. You're the best."
Yushu Pavilion, which stood only a wall away from the Cold Palace, was soon completely renewed. The news that Prince Jing had personally gone to Yushu Pavilion also quickly spread to every corner of the palace.
The Emperor and the Empress naturally found out soon enough.
The Emperor didn't react much. He merely ordered people to keep watch on Yushu Pavilion.
The Empress, however, was different.
She had originally planned to find some time to torment Su Qiao and vent the frustration she had suffered at the Emperor's hands recently.
Su Qiao's sudden protection under Prince Jing's wing infuriated her.
Only then did she discover that several eunuchs and palace maids she had arranged in Yushu Pavilion had disappeared at some point.
Remembering that it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, she suppressed the fury filling her chest.
In the Imperial Study, Eunuch Liu approached the