After Consort Fan endured the Empress Dowager Wang's rebuke, she felt she had lost all face. At the palace banquet she merely showed her face for a moment, then used the excuse of feeling unwell to return to her palace.
Right now, she was languidly leaning in the east side room of Chang Chun Palace, letting a trusted palace maid rub her chest.
She was truly stifled with anger.
On top of the suffocation there was pent-up fury; this clotted resentment wanted nothing more than to burst out of her heart. On her way back, she deliberately picked on a minor fault to punish a young eunuch, ordering people to beat him with boards. If it hadn't been for that lecture from the Empress Dowager Wang, the palace would have gained yet another wrongful ghost!
Violating heavenly order, my foot!
A whole pack of rootless, lowborn trash and cheap sluts, what right do they have to talk about heavenly order? It was clearly just an excuse to make her lose face, and right in front of so many people.
