I dont really trust myself since I sometimes forget informations so you can look through it yourself or you already did.
Anyway, I think the reason why Lan rose to ranks is because of political reasoning. She came from southern yan. It is important for the emperor to have close connections, due to the incident, I guess they settled it by raising her rank. The emperor doesn't really have the leisure time to do it with anyone except the empress herself
I might be able to help, if you tell me who is who. Im not good with names, all i know is empress feng. I'm sorry i have read this a but over 2 years and I still. . .
Che is the main male lead character and Lan is the girl who killed Qian, the old Female lead and is scheming with Che's mother. I was wondering because The main female lead was mad at him and stopped him from explaining what happened with him and Lan, saying it was uncomfortable.
Sorry guys, but did Che sleep with Lan? Is that why she was promoted to rank one? ╮(￣▽￣)╭