During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household adorned their homes with calamus and moxa grass and wore Five Poison Pouches.
Before dawn, Song Ci was dragged out of bed by the palace nanny to get dressed in full ceremonial attire, as she had to enter the palace to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager.
In fact, Song Ci didn't really want to go. It wasn't that she didn't want to see how grand and magnificent the real Imperial Palace was, but she feared she might expose herself since she had only transmigrated a month ago and had just adapted to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Moreover, the person she was visiting in the palace was the Empress Dowager, someone she had once endured hardships with. What if she brought up the tough days of the past and Song Ci couldn't keep up the charade?
But the Empress Dowager had specially issued an imperial edict summoning her to the palace for a chat, saying she missed her.
