Translator's note (06.09.2025): For a number of personal reasons, I will be taking a break from working on this project for the foreseeable future. I do, hopefully, intend to eventually come back and complete this translation, but for the moment, this project will be on hiatus. Thank you to everyone who's read and commented so far, and thank you in advance for your understanding. -  Having taken a bare few steps, they were all a bit surprised. Jiang Changbai knew that Song Juguang's residence didn't have many servants, but she hadn't imagined that the Regent's residence would be quite this desolate. The exterior appeared glorious and dazzling, but within was quite simple. The courtyard didn't have any sumptuous decorations, filled only with bamboo and plants she couldn't name. And the plants hadn't been tended to in a long while; they were growing wildly in the early spring atmosphere. Thinking of the incident just previously at the door, Jiang Chang...