Going through such pains, just to have the Empress Dowager hold you?
Consort Xu expressed her inability to understand.
But she was the one scolded in Changle Palace, observing the harmonious atmosphere between the Empress Dowager and Concubine Xi in the same room, she had to admit in her heart... perhaps the Empress Dowager just likes this sort of thing? The current Emperor and the Empress Dowager are biologically related, so it's reasonable for mother and son to share the same tastes, though neither is particularly impressive.
—— Both mother and son are blind-hearted.
Compared to Consort Xu's jealousy, Consort Ji beside her was rather happy to let Concubine Xi perform.
