This thought made Cai Wei very sad. As a mother, she was acutely aware that there’s nothing more painful in this world than losing a child. She simply didn’t know how to talk to Lady Xiao about it.

Fortunately, Lady Xiao was in Space, unaware of the situation outside. Cai Wei had no choice but to lie to her, saying that Great Jin had an emergency, and they must return early; temporarily, they couldn’t take her to see her daughter.

Lady Xiao was an honest person. Cai Wei said so, and she believed it, feeling a bit disappointed but not saying much more.

That night, the worn and weary Cai Wei and Nangong Yi stayed in Space, and it was a silent night.

When they got up the next day, it was already light outside. After Cai Wei got up, she groomed and dressed herself, then had a loving breakfast made by her husband. She decided to go inquire about the cause of Lady Xiao’s daughter’s death and where she was buried.

This kind of thing can’t be hidden for long. Lady Xiao would know sooner or later.

Nangong Yi, naturally, had to go together with her. The couple went to a teahouse near the Royal Palace of Chu, rewarded the shop assistant with an ounce of silver, and asked the shop assistant about the situation of the Royal Palace of Chu.

To ordinary folks, an ounce of silver truly was no small amount. The shop assistant received this generous reward and naturally spared no detail in his speech, telling Cai Wei and Nangong Yi mysteriously, "You two are not people from the Capital City, huh? How could you not know the situation of the Royal Palace of Chu? Honestly, the Royal Palace of Chu almost became a dragon’s dwelling back then!"

Saying this, he looked around vigilantly, and seeing no one, he lowered his voice and said, "Back then, when the Prince died, the former Emperor almost made the King of Chu the Crown Prince. However, our awesome Empress Dowager, to prevent power from falling away, hurriedly adopted a Prince and married the Princess of Qing Luo to that Prince, enhancing her adopted son’s weight. After the former Emperor weighed it all, he gave up the King of Chu and established the Empress Dowager’s adopted son as the heir. Hey, this adopted son is the current Emperor!"

Cai Wei was not interested in what the current Emperor was like; she just wanted to know about Lady Xiao’s daughter, the Princess of Chu, and asked, "What about the King of Chu? How is he now?"

The shop assistant sighed and said, "What else could it be? Throughout history, the victor becomes the king, and the defeated the bandit. After the Emperor ascended, he was greatly wary of the King of Chu, not allowing him to go to his fief and not even granting him a position in the court. The people inside the palace can really adapt to the circumstances. Seeing that the Emperor doesn’t like the King of Chu, they also began to exclude him. Originally, the King of Chu’s secondary consort was to be Princess Gao Yang’s legitimate daughter. But in the end, during the marriage, Princess Gao Yang secretly switched daughters, marrying her legitimate daughter into the palace as Empress Dowager De, and letting a concubine-born daughter be married as the Main Consort to the Royal Palace of Chu. The dignified King of Chu, the second son of the former Emperor, unexpectedly marries a concubine-born daughter as his consort. Such humiliation, any man would find it hard to accept!"

These things said by the shop assistant, Cai Wei had already heard from Lady Xiao. What she wanted wasn’t about how the King of Chu was wronged but how the Princess of Chu was doing, so she said, "It seems that this new Princess of Chu isn’t having a good time at the Royal Palace of Chu, right?"

The shop assistant spread his hands and said, "Who knows? The affairs inside people’s rooms, we common folks can’t find out about." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After inquiring for a long time, the little boy didn’t know anything. Cai Wei felt a bit discouraged. Just then, a melodious voice singing could be heard from across the street at the theatre, with the faint voice of a girl singing: "It turns out that the vibrant hues have opened everywhere, yet like this, all are rendered unto broken wells and crumbling walls; fine days and beautiful scenes, how helpless is the sky, delightful affairs, whose courtyard does it belong to..."

The rhythm fluctuated, graceful and long, like crying and complaining, hearing it, Cai Wei was greatly surprised, not because of how it’s sung, but because it was clearly the lyrics from "Romance of the Western Chamber" she heard in her past life!

How could this place have lyrics from "Romance of the Western Chamber"?

She did not think these lyrics flowed out from Liu Xi, for Liu Xi had no interest in poems and verses; even if he had heard "Romance of the Western Chamber" in his past life, he definitely wouldn’t remember the lyrics inside. And she herself had never told anyone about these lyrics. Could it be that besides her and Liu Xi, there are other old acquaintances who came from the world through time travel?

This thought made her excited, and she quickly forgot the annoyance brought to her by the Princess of Chu. She took out a piece of silver, giving it to the shop assistant, and said, "The song just now from the theatre opposite was very nice. Go call the singer over to sing for us alone."