Pan Jiaojiao ultimately did not get to see Song Yan before being sent away by Shen Jingxian.
As they parted, the two agreed on a place to meet in two days, and Shen Jingxian also reminded Pan Jiaojiao not to tell Song Yun that she would be going too.
Upon returning to Yi Fen Palace, Shen Jingxian looked at Song Yan attentively reading at the table, but thoughts of the rumors Pan Jiaojiao had told her earlier preoccupied her mind, causing a bit of anxiety.
Due to her status as a princess, the people dared not make casual comments about her, yet they had no such reservations regarding Song Yan.
But those words defaming Song Yan were not just against her alone, they were attacks on all women in Yunyi.
In those discourses, a woman who loses her chastity is deemed a lesser being, one who must keep her head down before others, otherwise a white silk scarf ends her life, earning one note of praise at most.
