On usual days, Kunning Palace has over twenty female servants awaiting orders, but today only Aunt Yuan Jin leads four of them nearby, making the palace feel much more desolate.
Bai Li realized that after months of planning, it was finally time to see the results, yet she still didn't know how she was supposed to leave.
This Forbidden City is a cage, without orders or edicts, no one is allowed to leave the palace; even the Empress and Imperial Concubine may only leave to worship the Silkworm God, pay respects at mausoleums, visit their families by decrees, or attend grand ceremonies, let alone the female servants and nuns within the palace?
