"Tell your guards to stop showing up at the General's Manor for no reason. I'd hate for them to be dealt with as thieves one day."
"I'm the one who paid to have your backyard built! That means half of the General's Manor is mine." Old Gu had remodeled the house precisely so he could have a place for himself in the General's Manor.
"…"
"What are you playing at, Xiang Minghou? You goaded the Emperor into assigning the Zhan family work just to keep us from seeing our granddaughter, didn't you?" For the past two days, Lady Zhan had been brought into the Imperial Palace to help the Noble Consort arrange a birthday banquet.
Forget helping—she fell ill the moment she entered the palace, so worried about her granddaughter that she couldn't eat or drink.
The Noble Consort had no choice but to ask the Emperor to send her out of the palace early this morning.
