Bab 435: 12.43

Empress Dowager got the news from one servant about her son who was going to hold an imperial banquet, inviting all nobles from across the land to attend. 

Empress Dowager smiled and sipped her tea, "You heard that, Xi Yue?" She asked the woman who was sitting at the opposite of the table. 

They were in the Empress Dowager's White Swan palace, drinking tea together. Xi Yue came today after Empress Dowager Aixi suddenly invited her to come to the imperial palace. 

"Thank you so much for inviting me, Your Majesty. It is my honor," Xi Yue replied formally and gently.

Empress Dowager smiled at Xi Yue. This young lady was definitely the type of daughter-in-law she wanted. Beautiful, well educated, well mannered, from an influential family, and most importantly… she was a real woman. 

Unlike that deformed thing.