She didn't know how many times she had looked at it before.
In her heart, she knew that every time the mother and daughter brought their embroidery into the palace, it was all for her precious Night Pearl!
She had hinted openly and covertly countless times, yet she just couldn't bring herself to give it to them.
One must know that the Night Pearl was the first gift given to her by the late emperor!
She couldn't even bear to take it out and display it in her own chamber.
Instead, she kept it in the warehouse, and whenever she thought of it, she would have someone take it out to look at and play with.
Of course, most of the time after she had played with it enough, she would think of the late emperor's frivolity, the suffering she endured, and the humiliation of the late emperor dying on a woman's belly!
So the freshly taken out Night Pearl would be cast into the Cold Palace, left in the warehouse to be neglected for a while, and then taken out again!
