It must be said that Du Yu’s concerns were not without foundation. At this moment, the Mo Mansion in the Capital City was indeed busy with tense preparations for Moyuan’s wedding.
Not only had the Emperor bestowed the marriage, but under the pretext that the Mo Mansion lacked a mistress to manage household affairs, he had specially assigned forty servants to Moyuan. Among them, the leaders were Matron Cui, a former overseer in the Empress’s palace, and Yang Shi, the godson of Eunuch Mo, the Emperor’s trusted confidant. No sooner had these two arrived at the Mo Mansion than they seized authority from the previous steward and placed their own people in every corner of the estate. Before Moyuan could even object, they had already begun fast-tracking the wedding arrangements. The Emperor had “graciously” commissioned a celestial official to calculate an auspicious date, settling on the sixteenth of the following month. With only a month left, the schedule was incredibly tight.
When Moyuan returned to the Capital, it happened to coincide with the date his poison was due to flare up. The Emperor did not have Eunuch Mo deliver the antidote; instead, he summoned him to the palace precisely on the day of the flare-up. Moyuan had previously sent word to the Capital that his legs were paralyzed, and his body double had played the role of someone suffering from a leg ailment after an injury. Thus, in summoning Moyuan to the palace, the Emperor intended to verify whether his legs were t…
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