They entered the side hall of Cian Palace and were greeted by an exquisite little garden. The entire side hall was hushed and peaceful, with only a faint candlelight glowing in the Buddhist shrine in the main room.
Two young palace maids stood guard at the entrance to the side hall's courtyard.
Perhaps out of fear of secrets leaking, the maids stood some distance from the shrine.
[Holy crap, these two maids once attended the Empress Dowager and her male favorite while they did the deed!]
[Absolutely legendary-]
In ancient times, it was perfectly normal for servants to attend their master and mistress while they shared a bed.
Although Jian Ruonan knew that, actually encountering it still struck her as rather unbelievable.
She swiftly devoured both maids' gossip, then led everyone present toward the shrine with a swagger that acknowledged neither kith nor kin.
Dantai Mo followed behind, pushing the wheelchair, and could not resist asking the Black Tortoise System, [Why was Fifth Miss so surprised to learn that those two maids attended the Empress Dowager and her male favorite in bed?!]
Wasn't that common knowledge?
The Black Tortoise System replied, [Because Fifth Miss likes men with male virtue.]
[Xiaosi, don't tell me you want to become a rotten cabbage?!]
Dantai Mo replied, [...No, I was merely curious.]
The Black Tortoise System said, [Because where Fifth Miss comes from, most people live as one couple for their entire lives.]
Dantai Mo had known from the beginning that Fifth Miss was not from this world. Like Black Tortoise, she had come from somewhere very far away, and her thinking differed from that of Great Xia's natives. [Do all the men there possess great male virtue?]
The Black Tortoise System considered it. *[Not exactly. The government there mandates monogamy. A man can