Luonan.
Outside the palace.
Liang Ji, wearing a golden ornate dress and a five-colored phoenix crown, with a light layer of pale makeup obscuring her expression, gently lifted the curtain of the carriage compartment, gazing at the Music Bureau not far away.
Several beautiful women emerged from the Music Bureau, among whom a woman in a purple dress, holding a pipa, exuded a mature charm that drew the most attention, akin to overshadowing the peony with her singular beauty.
The woman was Xu Ying; this pipa was the only thing she took from the Xu Family after it was ransacked. It was the first pipa her father, Xu Guozhong, spent a fortune on when she learned to play, making it highly significant.
It was also her object of remembrance.
