124 The Way to a Man's Heart

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Or at least, this was what Xiao De seemed to firmly believe in. 

"Xiao De grew up in the palace and has seen this for himself," he'd vouched, citing his credentials to back this theory up in front of his doubtful master, even though Yan Zheyun had tried to explain that he wasn't doing this to try and gain more of the emperor's affections. "The late emperor's Imperial Concubine Qiu was one such case, her culinary skills earned her favour enough to give birth to a prince!" 

The ninth prince, Liu An, to be precise.