Chapter 143 - 42: Encountering the Purple Eyes Again_2
The Feise Empress Dowager, who is also the birth mother of Duke Fa Xiao Yi, is thirty-eight this year.
At the age of fourteen, she was presented as a tribute from a foreign, alien race to the late Emperor. Due to her beauty, she was the most favored in the harem during the late Emperor’s reign. Unmatched at the time, she was solely cherished for five years. If not for the Empress Dowager conceiving the Dragon Seed early on, her status would have been long gone.
When the concubines of the late Emperor thought she would be sent to the Cold Palace upon his death, she was soon honored as the Consort due to her virtues and good reputation after Emperor Fa Xiaoyun’s ascension to the throne.
The rest of the late Emperor’s concubines have either been sent away or scattered, and besides the Empress Dowager, only the Consort holds the most secure position in the palace now.
It is rumored throughout the palace that the Monarch had coveted the Consort’s beauty since his youth.
There are even rumors that it was the inability to endure the secret affection between his mother and brother that enraged Prince Xiao Yi, driving him to leave the Imperial Palace.
Such palace secrets, a palace maid would never dare to tell Yue Jinghua when awake.
Only under the influence of Yue Jinghua’s "Devil’s Eye," did she spill everything.
After listening, Yue Jinghua snapped her fingers, and like a wooden figure, the palace maid sat upright to the side.
Yue Jinghua then commanded her to draw a map of the palace layout.
It took about the time of a cup of tea for the palace maid to sketch an approximation.