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"Xiao Tian steered the conversation away with the kind of quiet cleverness that made it look effortless."

"By the time Yi Qing returned, the emperor was still ranting about ministers meddling in palace affairs and cursing the chaos Empress Xie had stirred up behind the screens."

"“Why are they even talking?” he spat. “Those hypocrites—those who keep men in their beds, those who squander their households—can’t even mind their own patch of land and yet they have the nerve to lecture me?”"