Lan Xiu is honest by nature, how could she agree?
Yanhong cried and said to the Xiu Luo Envoy: "Not only did Lan Xiu disagree, she also advised me to confess my mistake to the Emperor."
However, the Emperor cares so much about the female officers, if this gets out, wouldn't it be seeking one's own death!
Yanhong knew Lan Xiu was very principled, so she pretended to agree verbally, claiming that she would definitely go to confess to the Emperor the next day during the day.
Lan Xiu believed it to be true.
The next day, Yanhong, as Chief Aunt, assigned Lan Xiu a heap of tasks to purchase items outside the palace, so much so that when Lan Xiu returned, it was already dusk, and the palace gates were about to be locked.
And Yanhong had long discussed with her lover—the Commander of the Imperial Guard, to have a fellow villager in the Imperial Guard let her pass at that time.
