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Seeing that the empress dowager was looking at her, the woman immediately stood up and respectfully lowered her eyes. She replied, "Reporting to the empress dowager, maidservant Shen Qin is the daughter of Shen Qian, a Grand Scholar of Wen Yuan Pavilion."

"So it's Shen Qing's daughter, why didn't you enter the palace feast a few years ago?"

In reply to the empress dowager