The missing of the empress caused a huge commotion in the palace. Lord Li Shizen and Madam Feng almost got a heart attack when they were informed about their son had been kidnapped. Empress Dowager Wu Jiaying was worried sick and immediately meet up with Lord Shizen.
Both of them reached a final decision to close all the gates and border, preventing anyone from going in or out of the country.
Besides the problem of finding the empress, they got another huge problem.
That is...
How and who should go and inform the emperor about this matter.
Everyone in the nation knows how the emperor truly doting on his wife. No one dares to have a look on the empress in the presence of the emperor if they wished to leave unpunished.