Chapter 154
Xuan Ye brought Tao Hongying back to the Qianqing Palace.
Although he still remembered how this old palace maid had taken care of him in his youth, he did not fully trust her words.
He arranged for someone to closely monitor Tao Hongying’s every move while he himself took the handwritten journal back to the West Warm Pavilion.
Over the next three days, he pored over the journal word by word, again and again.
The life recorded by Lady Tunggiya in the journal was ten times, a hundred times more bitter than what Tao Hongying had described. For the first…