As Xian waited with bated breath for Lance to finish writing, Laurel’s voice continued to sound in the background.
“…Like the rest of her line, Bai Ruyi’s mother, Wen Lian, was intelligent. Later on, when the prince who had made her his concubine took the throne as the next emperor, it would also turn out that she was quite the rebel.
“See, whether it was their own desire to do so or whether it was at the behest of their families, most other women in the harem competed against one another for the Emperor’s favor, and their one goal was to bear him a son.
“But Wen Lian, in direct disobedience of the orders from her own family elders, never tried to draw the Emperor’s attention to herself…”
From his distance of a couple of feet from that piece of napkin, Xian could read Lance’s handwri
