The Empress's Gigolo - Chapter 20: Spices

... to shift a cart load of ice chunks and followed the soldiers into the palace.

There was a passage between the palace door and the beast park. After checking through the ice chunks and the identities of the few of them, they were admitted into the palace.

The previous time Ren Baqian came, his mind had been filled with thoughts on how to save his own life and, as such, did not have the mood to look around the palace.

This time round, he was much more relaxed.< ...