"Wow! So much delicious food~"
A banquet was being held in the palace that day, also serving as a reception for the envoys from the North Qu Kingdom.
As the family of the emperor's most trusted brother-in-arms, Wenren Luoshui and her family had naturally been invited.
She had brought her personal maid, Yin Xing, along to the banquet, and mistress and maid were secretly passing food between them.
Wenren Luoshui passed everything on the low dining table before her to Yin Xing so she could have a taste, too.
The system, which had turned into a tiny kitten, watched helplessly as the food in front of it dwindled and protested with dissatisfied little mews.
Unfortunately, its protests were useless. Wenren Luoshui merely gave its little head a perfunctory pat.
[Boo-hoo-hoo! You humans really do love the new and tire of the old. Once you've got someone, you stop loving them!]
Unable to eat the delicacies it wanted, the system kept grumbling inwardly. Wenren Luoshui could not be bothered to trade barbs with it, so she picked up a pastry that looked rather dry and stuffed it into its mouth.
The pastry was not only dry enough to choke on but sticky, too. After a few chews, the system felt as though it had eaten superglue and could barely open its mouth.
The envoys North Qu had sent this time had reportedly also come to arrange a marriage alliance.
Over the years, the Central Plains had ostensibly been a battleground for five kingdoms, but North Qu was actually the weakest of them.
From ancient times onward, maintaining ties between powerful families often meant sacrificing the happiness of some unimportant person to bind the two families more tightly together.
Most princesses sent for marriage alliances in ancient times were unfavored commandery princesses