Trivial Matters

When she first entered the palace, she was very uncomfortable with the caged-bird-like life. She didn't have anyone to talk to, and every day she just waited for nightfall, day after day, year after year.

But that was in the past. Things are different now.

She suddenly caught the emperor's attention, and she's pregnant now.

Finally, she had something worth writing to her relatives about.

She's going to have a child.

Her father died early, and the Xie family couldn't accommodate her and her mother. They went back to her maternal Lin family to live. Her uncle and aunt treated her as their own, and whenever there was something good, they gave it all to her. Her cousins, on the other hand, took a step back. Not only did she not have a father and her mother was a widow, but everyone in the family also avoided mentioning the words "widow" and "loneliness" around her, for fear of hurting her feelings.