Xiao Ye could clearly feel it.
Huangfu Xiangling had a lot more smiles on her face, and she had been genuinely happy almost the entire time during the meal.
The broken family reunion was like a shattered mirror coming together again, letting Huangfu Xiangling have motherly love once more.
The way Huangfu Xiangling looked at him, it almost seemed sticky with longing.
*Inside, her love and focus on him grew stronger still.*
If his clothes got dirty, she would personally take them off, hand-wash them, and hang them out to dry.
If he had a grain of rice at the corner of his mouth, the Ancestral Empress didn't care at all, but Huangfu Xiangling would immediately take the rice and pop it into her own mouth and eat it.
After they drank, Huangfu Xiangling was the first to prepare hangover soup for everyone.
Even though it didn't taste great, she made it from the heart.