A Familiar Presence

Jiang Ying Yue looked around the beautifully decorated banquet hall as she followed a maid who led her to her assigned seat. She would be sitting neither too close nor too far away from the seat of Empress Dowager.

Many officials had already arrived with their families and were currently chatting in groups but General Gu's family and Prime Minister Fang's family still had to arrive.

She silently settled down on her seat and accepted the cup of fresh herbal tea that the maid offered her.

After so many months of constantly wearing the veil every time she went outside, she was now fully trained to easily drink and eat while keeping her veil in place, something that used to be her biggest problem back in the day.