Uplift

After leaving Li Ru's palace, Lei Xing went to see Ming Shu, hoping for the distraction of work to correct her mood. But after a while of going through boring paperwork, she concluded this was not what she needed right now and cut the meeting short in favor of more pleasant affairs.

Unsurprisingly, pleasant affairs constituted of a visit to the treasury department where she found the old department head, who happily took on the role of tour guide again.

Lei Xing's mood was quickly uplifted as they moved from room to room. She was actually tempted to pocket a few things here and there for further...analysis. But she opted for the more dignified approach of asking for them to be sent over to her palace for further "assessment" - which of course, the head department happily obliged.

After all, they were all hers - well, the Emperor's, but obviously what's his was hers and what's her was...well, debatable.