After returning to the Imperial Ceremony Office, Leng Qingtang asked the eunuch to bring some hot water and put enough fragrant gardenias in the water.
He put his hands in the washbasin and rubbed the soap again and again until there were red marks on all of his ten slender fingers.
Bingbi Liu stood beside him and looked at him but did not dare to say anything. He just knew that the Master did this sometimes after returning from Yongning Palace. But he had not done this for nearly two years.
After wiping his hands, Leng Qingtang leaned against the rose chair and asked while smearing the xuelan hand cream,
"Where is Baiquan?"
Bingbi Liu bowed and said with a low voice,
"He did not stay in the Imperial Ceremony Office for a long time and then was ordered to come back to Yongning Palace
