Was she not married to Zixuan where he was from? That wasn't something that she wanted to think about. Then again, she didn't want to think about the fact that she'd lost him either. It's why she'd barely left her husband's side. Which is to say that he was around somewhere, close enough if she needed him.

"I'm not ready to go back home just yet, so I will happily take lunch with you," Yanli tells him with a soft smile. He wasn't, however, wrong. Home was where Zixuan was. She had no intentions of staying away from her husband.

That soft smile only brightens at the mention of the Yunmeng style meal," I will take you up on that. Only if you'll allow me to make you a proper Lotus Root and Pork Rib soup." Even her brothers would tell anyone that no one could make it the way that she did.