As rumors spread throughout the kingdom. The Grand Empress dowager, having lost the ability to keep track of the Emperor and the dealings in his palace started to feel suffocated.
For days no one could find out anything about the Grand Palace. It was so heavily guarded that none of her usual messengers were able to infiltrate the way they once had in the past and bring her news of what he was up to.
All her efforts had failed and what’s worse, she’d had to sit by and watch as one by one all of her retainers and ministers, the men and positions she’d cultivated over the years, were destroyed.
She’d taken to her bed weeks ago and had asked for her granddaughter to be brought to her in a last ditch effort to force the issue. But the Emperor hadn’t so much as looked at the girl.