"What if a time of the month that's inconvenient comes around? Are we supposed to ask for leave?"
"Exactly. I hear this is all the doing of our Empress. They say the Emperor is so bewitched by her that she's the only one in the entire inner palace—it's utterly ridiculous."
"True, what kind of emperor is he, sticking to just one woman? He's not even as good as me—I have three concubines at home."
Chapter 455