"Your Highness, this is General Jun." the maidservant bowed.
Nan Hua looked at Yan Jin Nian and curtsied in the manner that was suitable for noble ladies. "General Jun greets Empress Dowager Yan."
Empress Dowager Yan, Yan Jin Nian, looked at Nan Hua silently.
She had good memory and naturally, it was impossible for her to forget Nan Hua's face. Considering that the other party was also the person whom that b*stard Long Qian Xing wanted to put close to him, she naturally took more notes about Nan Hua appearance.
General Jun?
The person in front of her is clearly Nan Hua, the young miss of Nan Family.
Yan Jin Nian could still remember that when she saw Nan Hua in the past, the other party was nothing more than a delicate young lady who looked unremarkable. She stayed low and didn't attract much attention.
Even if she knew some methods to protect herself, it was still within the knowledge of a young noble lady.
There was nothing strange.
But this General Jun was truly a person who had been hardened by battles and knew how to fight on the frontline. The number of blood spilled under her sword would have been able to form rivers.
At this time, Yan Jin Nian felt immediate headache.
"You can leave."
The maidservants looked at Yan Jin Nian in surprise. She was worried but the order from Yan Jin Nian was absolute so everyone quickly retreated. They didn't dare to disobey Yan Jin Nian in the slightest bit.
The courtyard was quickly emptied.
Yan Jin Nian looked at Nan Hua in front of her, her expression complicated. She wanted to maintain her majesty as part of the Imperial Family, but she felt that her worldview was severely challenged right now.
How come the noble young lady become the famous young general?
If it was when she was in her previous life where she read those stories and watched some movies, she would only nod along. After all, she felt that it was some dramatic stories that these people made in order to attract attention.
But coming to this world and experienced the atmosphere and real suppression, she clearly realized that it was not easy for women to make name for themselves.
The power of the public opinion was very harsh for them.
Women who didn't take care of their reputation wouldn't be accepted and many people wouldn't even be willing to care for them. The elders only wished to use the women to extend their connections and these women had to stay in the boudoir, learning about the boring four arts.
In the memory she had inherited, that was how she lived except during the time when Yan Family moved from Qi Kingdom to Fei Yang Kingdom, which was filled with many turmoils. But at that time, she was still young and didn't understand many things.
Staying in the Imperial Palace, the words and deeds of these women were under even heavier scrutiny, which was something that Empress Dowager Yan personally experienced.
Yan Jin Nian had to admit that what was written in the records couldn't fully express what the people in this era actually experienced. It was only written through one perspective and there were still many cases buried.
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