She said tearfully as she tried to remove the bracelets, "So, the engagement was never broken off. Your Majesty, this engagement…"
The empress dowager glared at her. "What are you crying for? Don't you understand what I'm saying? If the position of consort is yours, it has to be yours. Do you think I'm talking nonsense?!"
In the empress dowager's Cining Palace, she would smash things when she was angry, to say nothing of reprimanding another person.
Hua Wushuang was frightened and didn't dare to speak.
The empress dowager quickly softened her tone and said to Hua Wushuang, "The engagement with Feng Wu isn't official. Who knows what it is? If you ask me, she'll only be a concubine!
"As for you…
"When's your grandmother's birthday?"
Hua Wushuang: "In, in ten days…"
The empress dowager said, "Ten days from now, I'll ask the emperor to write an imperial edict and let everyone know that you're the real crown prince's consort!"
