Cining Palace.
Nanny Shui earnestly urged Empress Dowager Mo to eat: "…Your Highness, you're at this age, why are you being stubborn like a child? If the Prince knew, wouldn't he be even more upset?"
Having accompanied her for many years, she dared to say such things. Would others dare to call Empress Dowager Mo stubborn?
Empress Dowager Mo hadn't eaten or drunk for a whole day and night. Her lips were dry, her voice hoarse: "Why can't I be stubborn? They always say 'old child, old child.' I've been dignified and proper all my life, now that I'm old, can't I be willful for once?"
Nanny Shui was momentarily speechless, at a loss between tears and laughter. These words sounded like a child's pout.
Just as she was about to say something, it was announced from outside that His Majesty had arrived.
"I'm tired, I won't see him. The Emperor is unfilial, let him kneel outside," Empress Dowager Mo turned her body away, with her back to Nanny Shui.
