Chapter 73 The Queen Dowager’s Summon 1 ” (2/2)
Thinking of the torture faced by her cruel stepmother, Bai Yan’s lip inexplicably formed a smirk.
“The pain she inflicted on me years ago will be repaid one step at a time, and it will be I who will do it!”
Tilting her head, Lan Xiaoyun blinks and blinks with confusion… Why does her cousin here look like she knows who’s responsible?
Fox?
All of a sudden, the young girl recalled a certain detail her father mentioned to her this morning. It’s said that the Bai House was in the middle of searching for a fox last night, which coincided with the fox they encountered on the road yesterday….
Instantly, her eyes sparkled with realization: “Cousin, can it be, you….”
Stretching her arms like someone that’s just awoke, Bai Yan interrupts the girl’s questioning: “I’m going to wash up so why don’t you go outside for now.”
“No!” Lan Xiaoyun became all mopey, “I haven’t even finished what I wanted to say yet and you already want to drive me out.
“There’s more?”
“It’s like this. Grandfather tasked me to inform you that the palace has sent for you. Her Highness the Queen Dowager is seeking your audience today, but since you were still asleep earlier, he wouldn’t let me disturb you.”
Dowager?
Bai Yan went quiet at the information she got.
Her impression of the Queen Dowager wasn’t deep, but she did learn that the relationship between her mother and the old queen was so good that she wanted Lanyue to marry into the palace. However, due to her mother rejecting the idea, the outcome was the Queen Dowager taking Lanyue as her goddaughter instead.
In fact, when the old Bai Yan was still young, she had often visited the old queen in the palace with her mother. But ever since Lanyue passed away, the young orphaned girl would seldom step out of the Bai estate, hence the reason why their former good relationship became so alienated.
“You go tell our grandfather that I will be entering the palace in a bit.”
Now that she’s returned, it’s unavoidable that she would make a visit to the palace.