Princess Consort Ji just couldn't understand, how could a folding screen be poisoned? It's not like you can smear poison on it without being detected, wouldn't people smell it?
This doesn't make sense, the method of poisoning is too clumsy, it almost blatantly says, I'm sending you a poisoned screen, wouldn't that just expose itself without any effort? Who would be so foolish to poison like this?
She somehow recalled the operas she had seen, in history, there were Emperors who wanted to dismantle the vassal kingdoms, using various ingenious tricks, finding excuses to detain vassal kings, not allowing them to return to their fiefs or coming back to the capital city and not permitting them to go back to their territories, it was truly tragic.
It was heard that her son had already requested permission from the Emperor to return to their fief, but the Emperor did not agree.
