The Old Lady has spent these years in the Buddhist Hall, observing a vegetarian diet in her religious practice!
Usually accustomed to her diet, today was the first time she lacked any appetite!
While others are happily entertaining guests, she sits here alone, consuming her vegetarian meal!
Thinking of this, the Old Lady couldn't help but harbor resentment. Her bitterness was not solely aimed at the General but also her own family—a family that supported her, yet also ruined her life!
Over the years, she had come to learn some truths: her family had been influenced by the most powerful ruler, the Emperor, who gambled with her life and ultimately destroyed it!
Within the General Mansion, she used the influence of her natal family to assert dominance and envied the other concubines for receiving affection and bearing children.
Some of the General's concubines became pregnant but ended up miscarrying—and she had a hand in that!
