Zhai Tianyu clenched his fingers inside his sleeves, he knew that his grandmother will not sit silently once she finds out that he had a fallout with Ji Yu. She might have acted like she was not associating herself with the politics of the imperial palace but now as he looked at her meddling in his affairs he could see that the reason she did not associate herself with his business and the imperial palace was that he was following the path that she had paved for him and not because she did not want to get involved into the politics.
He pursed his lips and then took a deep breath before saying in a quiet voice, " I am supposed to be riding with the Queen, your majesty. This is the law, even my father travelled to the forest with imperial mother when it was the time to hunt, how can I suddenly bring consort Ji with me instead of the Empress?"