At the Prince of the South's Residence, a beautiful woman fed the fish beside a pond in the courtyard.
She looked rather distracted and kept tossing fish feed into the pond. Perhaps she had fed them too much; some fish were already bloated, yet still eating.
If she had not run out of feed, the fish here would probably have stuffed themselves to death and floated belly-up.
Fish had a peculiar trait: as long as eating had not killed them, they would keep eating themselves to death.
Seeing that it was getting late, Ji Lianyu sighed mournfully and returned to her room to rest.
Normally, at this hour, she would have changed into the clothes she had carefully prepared and been on her way to the palace.
But Xu Zifeng had said early on that he would be away for a few days, and there was still no news of him being thrown into Prison.
That left Ji Lianyu without a suitable excuse to attend to Li Chen.
"It's so dangerous for that boy Zifeng to be out this late. He'd be safer in Prison."
If Xu Zifeng knew this was why his aunt hoped he would be arrested, he would probably have spat blood in fury.
That entire night, Ji Lianyu tossed and turned, unable to sleep. It felt as though her body was missing something, and no matter what she did, she could not drift off.
Apart from Xu Zifeng, quite a few others had left the Imperial Capital that day.
At Prince Jing'an's residence, Commandery Princess Li Ling was carrying some tasty food to Chen Xuannan. Whatever else he was, he was her husband in name.
They had been married for three years without ever living together, each staying in separate quarters.
Li Ling reached Chen Xuannan's