Two days later, the main courtyard of Duke of Wu's manor.
The servants cleared the table after Zhu Fengyin and Lu Yingjie finished their dinner and retreated apart from Su Liya, Tian Tian and a few servants that stood guard in the hallway. After days of thinking, Su Liya's words now made sense.
She had been searching for the right time to bring it up to Lu Yingjie. She knew that the Emperor had been working everyone to the ground ever since the banquet. The rumours making the rounds were that the Emperor put the fifth Prince on house arrest.
Another rumour going around was that the sixth prince side was trying to make use of the fifth Prince's lapse in judgement to remove him from his official position. However, the Emperor was determined to only suspend the fifth Prince for a few weeks as punishment.