Xie Ning held a bowl of soup and took sips from it. Recently, every meal she had included soup, and even the main dish had been replaced with soup. Seeing soup now made her feel somewhat helpless.
The emperor looked at her and found it amusing. He looked at the plate of chestnut cakes on the table, took a piece, and handed it to her. "Eat this. You should like it with the sugar frosting."
Even if the cake that the emperor handed to her was laced with poison, she would still have to eat it. Besides, she really liked chestnut cakes. The chef in the diet room was good at making them, and they were filled with the fragrance of chestnuts. They melted in the mouth and the sugar frosting on the surface was sweet but not cloying.