When friends come from afar, whip them dozens of times and drive them to a separate courtyard!

Under everyone's watchful eyes, the little dumpling nestled in Jiang Yanchuan's arms went utterly stiff.

Uh...

Jiang Yingcheng's eyes darted guiltily for a moment. I actually forgot about that!

The situation had been far too dire at the time. It had taken all her acting skills just to pretend those boxes hadn't appeared out of thin air, and once she had finally muddled through, she had tossed the matter to the back of her mind.

Now that Noble Consort Rou had abruptly brought it up again, even Jiang Yingcheng herself was momentarily dazed.

She spent all day under the eyes of her many uncles, so there was simply no way to explain where the boxes had come from. And this was too serious a matter for her to casually dump the blame on the uncles who treated her so well.

Countless excuses flashed through Jiang Yingcheng's mind, only for her to reject them one by one.

Including System Bro's suggestion for shifting the blame.

Then she flopped limply into her handsome imperial father's arms, filled with sorrow.

Waaah, Chengcheng can't explain this! System Bro, see you in our next life-

Fang Siwan was even more panicked than the little girl.

The New Year's Banquet was Great Rui's most solemn Palace Banquet of the year, and everyone who entered the palace for it held an exceedingly distinguished position. Though these envoys were not as exalted as Great Rui's Imperial Family, that did not mean the little girl could bring concealed weapons into the banquet and act as she pleased.

Even if they all knew what had happened, they still had to provide an explanation.

One poorly chosen word would give those who disliked the little girl something to use against her!

Fang Siwan clenched the handkerchief in her hand and steeled