In the garden outside the middle courtyard of Shanghe Mansion, Shu He sat in the second-floor pavilion before a table spread with fresh fruit and exquisite desserts.
"My, my! The Emperor of Tianqi is truly generous. To think that even you visiting princes and princesses could receive such treatment!"
These tangerines and grapes were out of season; they were likely tributes from small, distant lands—the sort of delicacies not even the palace concubines were guaranteed to have. The Emperor was paying far too much attention to their group.
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