On the first day Xu Xiaoman entered the palace, he knew that Prince Lu Ci was not a good person.
He asked her to count the ginseng, saying that missing one would cost her her life.
At the Beidi envoy's banquet, he drank the well water she mixed in public.
She was unjustly beaten and he was looking through the ledger in the study and only said: "Let her suffer."
Later she found out——
He didn't believe she was innocent, but he just couldn't let go of her stubbornness.
*"Your Majesty, why me?"
"Because you sweep the snow cleanly."*
🦴 Rule 1 of the Royal Palace's survival rules: Only by having strong bones can you live longer.
Intention: "Not all gifts are called love, but all survival requires hard bones."