Especially after learning that the Emperor had decreed to promote Jing Jieyu to Lady Jing even before she herself had rewarded Jing Jieyu, the Empress Dowager knew that the Emperor's attack had begun. She didn't need to leave the palace to know that the good reputation she had painstakingly maintained had now inevitably suffered a blemish.
Anxious at heart, the Empress Dowager tossed and turned the whole night, unable to sleep well. She regretted and hated her previous loss of composure, and was utterly resentful towards Lady Jing. But what could hate achieve? Now, the reputation of Lady Jing as a filial person who sacrificed for the Empress Dowager, who had lost her child, was firmly established and known to all.
