Noon.
After a busy night, the ladies only began getting up one after another when the sun was well overhead. What she had done last night-crushing a child in front of everyone-had been so outrageous that, once sober, Ye Yunchi was too ashamed to show her face and ran off to the Temple of Confucius again to be a penitent nun.
But Ye Yunchi dared not mention the grand group session before the sages of the Various Sects. She merely hemmed and hawed about how it broke the rules and violated propriety, how she had not wanted it either, how Xie Jinhuan was still young and ignorant, and so on.
She sounded just like a new bride who had suffered a tremendous injustice in her husband's family but dared not say so outright, and even kindly shielded her heartless husband. This left a certain old geezer scratching his head in agitation, itching to take up a sword and go break a certain Yellow Hair's legs...
By comparison, the other girls had clearly grown accustomed to this pastime of ordering a Male Model together and were much more relaxed.
Yuehua and Wanyi had finally vented the wildfire in their hearts. After getting up, they returned to the Hall in contentment and set about their many duties.
Ling'er always went to bed late and got up late. Having slept so late last night, she should have stayed in bed until afternoon before taking on the second round, but midway through, word arrived from the palace that Empress Xu wanted to see her.
Zhao Ling could only hurry out of bed and tidy herself up, then bring the equally sleepy Duoduo to Lizhèng Hall in the Imperial Palace. The moment she entered, she saw Empress Xu in her Phoenix Skirt, sitting alone on