Chapter 738: Backbone Support

Daohua trailed behind Old Madam Yan and Madam Li, following the noble ladies towards Cining Palace.

Soon, they arrived at Cining Palace.

Gazing upon the splendid Cining Palace, Daohua's eyes flickered and memories involuntarily surfaced of her first encounter with Grandmother Gu and Gu Jian.

Back then, Grandmother and her master lived in a dilapidated side yard of a temple where, apart from shelter from the wind and rain, there was scarcely proper furniture, and the most common sight was pots of medicine.

Even the later Taohua Temple was no match for the magnificence of Cining Palace before her eyes.

Stepping into Cining Palace and witnessing the continuous stream of noble ladies, as well as the bustling palace attendants, Daohua came to understand the glory and pomp the Empress Dowager, the emperor's mother in name, enjoyed.

Thinking of her grandmother lying alone in Taohua Village filled her heart with an indescribable sense of suffocation.