"Your father has retreated to Qinyang and is safe for the time being. However, the capital is crawling with the Empress's people. You are both incredibly fortunate not to have entered yet; had you gone in, I fear you would have been seized immediately."
Consort Yu had rushed back in a great hurry, her clothes covered in the dust of travel.
"If Ali hadn't warned me beforehand, I might not even have a corpse left to find by now."
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