In the Capital City, the topic among noble ladies was Young Lady Heir Pei, while in the palace, the concubines were discussing the County Princess.
Most of these concubines had daughters: sons were vulnerable to plots, but daughters could mostly survive. Even though they were all daughters, the treatment of the emperor's beloved daughter's daughter was worlds apart from how their daughters were treated—an obvious cause for jealousy.
The privileges their daughters couldn't enjoy were instead given to a counterfeit princess, who was not only spared execution but was also made a County Princess.
How could these palace ladies be at ease? Upon hearing of her scandal, they felt uncomfortable not joining in the scolding.
"To commit the heinous crime of impersonating a princess, what sort of person could she be? If not for the emperor's regard for the Li Family, she would have been quartered long ago."
