Shen Ningning cupped her cheeks in her small hands, her eyes filling with worry.
"Is she going to try and bully my godfather?"
"She won't," Mo Lingwei quickly refuted. "Chancellor Xie is far more shrewd and calculating than you imagine. Consort Rong is no match for him, so don't you worry."
Hearing this, Shen Ningning quietly nodded.
'She still wasn't sure what Consort Rong wanted, but it was better to be prepared than to be caught unaware.'
It was getting late, so Mo Lingwei did not stay long, leaving under the cover of the deep night.
The next day, the Emperor's decree arrived from the Palace Affairs Department.
Xie Yuanjiu had trespassed in the Forbidden Palace and bribed the National Academy with a hefty sum of five thousand taels of silver. She was therefore deemed unfit to bear the great responsibility of a female official.
Therefore, the National Academy returned Xie Yuanjiu's academic records and informed her that she need not return.
