The emperor returns to the palace.

The emperor left with his noble consort early morning, barely giving her a chance to say goodbye to her parents. General Zhan and his hewife said their goodbyes to their only legal child and watched them enter a carriage before they departed. Madam Zhan kept staring at the carriage until it left her sight before she sighed sorrowfully. "That girl...I am worried about her safety in the palace."

General Zhan pulled his wife into his arms as he looked at the bright blue sky. "Our daughter is very smart and capable. She won't be bullied by others so easily. Besides the emperor is taking care of her very well, we should not be worried."

He also felt that marrying his daughter into the royal family was a mistake but back then, Zhan Yanhui had been very adamant to marry the emperor even though she's had previously refused to be his empress. He had been planning on marrying her to that man....