After saying this, she used the excuse of tea scalding her mouth to dismiss the two maids serving Concubine Xue, ignoring Luo Xue's desperate pleas, and ordered them to be thrown into the dungeon.
As she was leaving, Princess Zhao Gui coldly said to her, "If there's a next life, remember, one should always leave a path for others to walk. If you push people to a dead end, they'll be left with no choice but to snatch a path from you…"
Shortly after, she commanded that the two of Concubine Xue's palace maids be interrogated rigorously. A few Shi Chen later, the two maids confessed that Concubine Xue had repeatedly used banquets and rewards as a guise to secretly administer contraceptive medicines to the concubines in the palace.
