The incident of Fourth Master spending the night at Jinyu Pavilion was, of course, known throughout the palace.
From The Empress Dowager downwards, not a single person was unsurprised.
Yet amidst this surprise, they felt that, in fact, it was within expectations.
After all, the concerned parties—The Empress Dowager, Xi Pin—they knew that the day's events couldn't possibly be let go so easily.
Just being grounded, just being stripped of a title was indeed showing a great deal of favoritism and indulgence. Now that His Majesty was resting in her palace again, it wasn't strange at all.
Now, Qi Guipin also understood just how serious His Majesty's partiality towards her was.
Normally, for the concubines of the imperial harem, being stripped of a title was a shameful matter, something that was hard to accept.
But it also depended on the timing and the circumstances.
If the imperial harem was full, and there were more than just two Guipins, Ye Zao would have felt utterly disgraced.
