Within Changning Palace, the Empress Dowager also received the news.
The Empress Dowager had just dismissed the noble ladies who came to offer New Year's greetings that morning and took an afternoon nap. In the afternoon, she was still murmuring to Nanny Sun, saying that after the third day of the new year, time would pass quickly, "I am hoping for just two more days, and then it will be the sixth day."
No sooner had she murmured this than she heard the news that Ling Hua had met with trouble.
The Empress Dowager's face turned pale, and although she was reclining on her bed, she sat up abruptly and asked urgently, "Ling Hua was stabbed in the chest by someone from the Eastern Palace?"
The messenger nodded, "Replying to the Empress Dowager, it is absolutely true. Jingzhao Prefecture and the Warhorses Bureau have both been deployed, and Your Majesty has already left the palace for Lostan Street."
