The exchange between the mistress and her servant neatly shifted all the blame onto the sisters, Beauty Lin and Beauty Yan. Indeed, what unforgivable offense could Chan'er have possibly committed to warrant fifty strokes of the board right off the bat?
Suspicious, Zhang Chengyan immediately summoned a palace maid who had just been assigned to Lanxin Pavilion to ask for the details. Having no connection to the sisters, the maid dared not hide anything and recounted everything she had seen and heard in truthful detail.
Hearing that the sisters wanted to flog her simply because Chan'er had smiled, Zhang Chengyan felt a surge of annoyance. They had only just entered the palace—why were they so troublesome, constantly causing trouble?
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