Eunuch Yu quickly picked up the roster and started flipping through it. After a while, he said, "There is a palace maid named Yang Xiuer by the Empress's side."
The Emperor squinted his eyes, just about to speak, when Eunuch Yu added, "However, this palace maid is only eighteen years old, she shouldn't be Commander Zhu's lover."
The Emperor suddenly stood up, "No, that's not right!"
"What did Ruru say at the time? She mimicked that woman's words, saying that her parents forced her to marry."
"It wasn't a palace maid, it was a married woman!"
Ruru surely was not lying, because after the Emperor returned to the palace, he brought the still sleeping Fourth Prince over and asked him personally; he almost repeated Ruru's words verbatim.
The Emperor also asked the Fourth Prince why he took Ruru and ran, to which the Fourth Prince replied they were children and didn't know who was behind the tree, fearing they might be silenced.
