The setting shifts to a palace banquet, everyone changes clothes.
Consort Fan sat on a beauty couch, so furious she wanted to sweep away the teacup offered by the palace attendant, but was quickly protected by her trusted nanny Rong.
"Lady, this place is not far from the Cining Palace. If you break the teacup here, won't it lead to gossip among the palaces?"
Consort Fan's phoenix eyes glared, "Do you think I would fear them? Now I can't even smash a teacup without considering the consequences first?"
Her status was noble, born from the Prime Minister's Mansion. Among the concubines in the palace, aside from the Empress Dowager, and apart from the Empress, she held the highest rank. Whose face did she need to consider?
"A coarse peasant woman dares to challenge me! Does she really think she's noble now? Bah! Arrogant, vulgar, and disrespectful, it's just that the Empress Dowager… boo hoo."
