In recent days, who Your Highness would bring to the New Year's Eve family banquet had become the talk of the town during leisure time.
Whomever Your Highness takes indicates who is favored.
By saying this, Lady Chang first clarified that her own absence was due to catching a cold, and not because Your Highness chose not to take her.
Then, she stirred up trouble between Shen Chuwei and Concubine Xu, with every sham friendship potentially giving rise to all sorts of jealousy and competition for favor.
At this moment, Shen Chuwei was feeling rather drowsy, and if it hadn't been for Tao Chenghui and Concubine Xu each holding onto her, she probably would have longed to find a sheltered spot to doze off for a while.
Listening to Lady Chang's words, she guessed that Lady Chang claimed to have caught a cold on purpose, not because she didn't want to attend the New Year's Eve banquet, but because she wanted Xiao Jinyan to coddle her.