Lianxin hurried back to Xueqiong Courtyard, put down the basket in a huff, and said, "Your Ladyship, it was Beauty Wen who attended the Emperor last night, and she even spent the night in His Majesty's quarters! Your Ladyship, didn't you send over Pine Nut and Lily Crisp yesterday? Why hasn't the Emperor favored you yet?"
She was growing impatient. In the inner court, if one failed to win favor, life ahead would certainly be difficult. The people here were accustomed to cozying up to the powerful and looking down on the weak; an unfavored concubine could only eat whatever leftovers others left behind, and cold ones at that. What she had just brought back from the kitchens was precisely what others did not want.
Bai Wutong remained completely unconcerned, continuing to embroider the sachet in her hands. "We have our own small kitchen here. We can just cook for ourselves."
Chapter 30