"Last night, I sneaked into Lihua's room, woke her up, and gave her some medicine. She mumbled that the Empress got it from a young man, and that the Empress and the young man were fond of each other. Unfortunately, the Empress had to marry into the Imperial family. They wanted to elope, but missed the chance because the Empress fell seriously ill before marriage," Jianqi said.
"Who is the man?" Bai Ruozhu asked with interest.
Jianqi shook his head, "Lihua claims she doesn't know. The Empress never took her along when meeting the man secretly, and she never mentioned the bracelet to her. It was only when the Empress carelessly mentioned it that Lihua found out. At that time, she didn't understand why the Empress would give the bracelet, a gift from her beloved, to Empress Shangzi. Many years later, Lihua started to guess the problem but always feared being implicated and was very scared about it."
