Chapter 591 - 588: Beginning and End - Part 1
Before Bai Jinxiu could finish her words, she heard Chun Tao’s voice coming from behind the partition: "Eldest Young Lady, Nanny Jiang has brought Wei Zhong over, saying there’s something extremely important to discuss."
Bai Qingyan looked up towards the window lattice and vaguely saw Nanny Jiang followed by Wei Zhong.
"Eldest Sister, let’s talk later..." Bai Jinxiu lifted her teacup and said.
Bai Qingyan nodded and said, "Let them in."
Soon, Nanny Jiang brought Wei Zhong in. After paying their respects to Bai Qingyan and Bai Jinxiu, Wei Zhong, with a bowed waist, began: "Master, last time Miss Lu came across the Empress secretly meeting with General Fu. I have been discreetly investigating the old affairs between General Fu and the Empress. Surprisingly, I found out... that in the early years, the Empress was engaged informally to General Fu by their elders, though no betrothal tokens were exchanged! Not many people know about this."
An engagement?!
Bai Jinxiu widened her eyes and looked at Bai Qingyan, who remained calm. Bai Jinxiu also steadied herself quietly.
"At that time, the current Emperor was still the Crown Prince. Two years after the passing of the former Crown Princess, the Emperor had not taken another principal wife. Later, during a palace banquet, the fifteen-year-old Empress, by chance, played the favorite melody of the late Crown Princess. The former Emperor then intended to bestow a marriage. When the Empress’s maternal family got wind of this, the Empress went to the Fu Family to find General Fu, hoping he would propose to her before the Imperial Edict was issued. But General Fu felt that the Fu Family’s status was too low to match the Empress and did not dare to compete with the Crown Prince for her, so he did not propose."