Consort De had previously gone to the Taiji Hall, where she happened to run into the Left Prime Minister and his family emerging with ashen faces. The countenances of Fu Qingrong and Dong Daiying were the most ghastly of all, as if they were mourning a death in the family.
No, in fact, they looked even worse than if someone had died!
When Consort De had first spotted Dong Daiying in the palace earlier, she had found it strange—the third branch of the Fu family was in the midst of funeral arrangements, so why had she come here?
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