Due to the passing of the Empress, the scheduled ancestral worship at the Imperial Ancestral Temple was canceled.
For three consecutive days, the Emperor suspended court and summoned Zhou Ji'an to the inner palace daily to check his pulse, while the imperial health deteriorated day by day.
Lacking a central pillar in the inner palace, Imperial Noble Consort De, as the head of the four noble consorts, "had no choice" but to step out of Yanfu Palace once again and take back the power of assisting in the management of the six palaces from Noble Consort Xian.
Chapter 113