Inside Lingxin Hall, Empress Dowager Yan sat in a chair, the fingers of her right hand tightly clenched. Her brows were knitted, and her expression betrayed considerable impatience.
"Enough, enough. Stop pacing back and forth in front of me."
Empress Dowager Yan spoke irritably to her younger brother.
"Sister, tell me, what are we supposed to do now...?"
Yan Shan'ao stopped, sighed, and slapped the back of his hand hard, his voice laden with worry.
"What are we supposed to do? How would I know? Who could have known Qin Kingdom's Lord would pull something like this?" Empress Dowager Yan sounded equally vexed and angry.
Not long before, Yan Shan'ao had come to Lingxin Palace to see his sister and tell her about Qin Kingdom's Lord.
Only then had Empress Dowager Yan learned that Qin Kingdom's Lord had actually sent Qin's Grand Princess, Princess Qinyang, to the Zhou Kingdom to attend its ruler's wedding ceremony.
Had that been all, it would have been fine. Empress Dowager Yan would have had no objections; on the contrary, she would have been delighted.
After all, it at least showed that Qin Kingdom's Lord still remembered their old ties.
For the Zhou Kingdom, that was a blessing as vast as the heavens.
But she had never expected what came next.
Qin Kingdom's Lord actually intended to marry that Grand Princess to Xiao Mo!
And of all times, he had chosen the moment when His Majesty was about to marry Ruxue.
What exactly was that supposed to mean?
Was Qin Kingdom's Lord trying to wreck the occasion?
"Does His Majesty know about this?" Empress Dowager Yan asked her younger brother.
"He does." Yan Shan'ao nodded and sighed. "That old bastard Wei Xun told me not long ago that he had already informed His Majesty."
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