It was the intoxicating hour of dusk. The sky blazed with bewitching purples and reds as the jade towers and the Golden Palace shed their cold, impersonal armor of daylight, eagerly draping themselves in the alluring, silken gauze of a beautiful Lady.
This was the most enchanting and sentimental time of day in the South City Palace.
The moment Liang Wan stepped out of her carriage, she saw palace attendants and eunuchs standing silently before the palace gate, their heads bowed. It appeared they had been waiting for a long time.
As soon as he learned of Lu Xiu's death and Beizhou's cessation of hostilities, Gao Qian had immediately dispatched men to wait in Yu Yang and escort her back to the palace.
Even though the imperial edict of her appointment had not been made public, the fact that the Emperor had taken her into his harem was already common knowledge.
It was she who had requested that the edict not be made public.
