Hongmen Feast
A long procession of eunuchs with heavy wooden buckets of hot bathwater, maids rushing to the imperial buttery to order ginger soup, and a hasty summons sent to the Imperial Medical Bureau for an imperial physician to attend to Lord of Handsome Fairness Yue in Yuyang Palace at once.
Upon issuing those commands, Yan Zheyun had known that he would not be resting easy tonight. Initially, he had considered trying to keep things on the low to attract as little attention as possible. But when Hua Zhixuan started running a temperature and the blisters on his fingers had started bleeding, Yan Zheyun had changed his mind.
The bigger the commotion, the more likely to startle the one person who could administer justice in the inner palace without repercussions. But the emperor's ear was not easy to reach. Yan Zheyun could only stir up as much trouble as possible while still toeing the line and pray that news of it successfully made its way to Qianqing Palace.