The Empress had a wonderfully lively New Year, as Li Lianhua brought the whole family to the Imperial Palace to celebrate. Qi Mushan and Mother Cen did not treat the Empress like a monarch at all, seeing her simply as an ordinary junior.
The Empress enjoyed a heartwarming and novel Lunar New Year, even receiving her very first red envelope filled with elders' blessings. Though it contained only ten taels of silver, she solemnly placed it inside her treasure chest.
While they celebrated the New Year within the Imperial Palace, the customary holiday gifts to the outside world could not be neglected. An Qingyun, far away in the East Sea, as well as his parents back in his hometown, and her own friends close by in the capital—none of them were forgotten by Yun Qingyue.
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