- 'whether or not we can evidence of’ Something’s gone wrong, there. Find evidence? - I’m befuddled by the strict nature of the national mourning. Again, who invokes one of these Super Mourning periods? It can't be any member of the imperial family, or they'd never have time to reproduce. Even her great grandson (who may only have a nominal relationship to the Dowager Empress, rather than a blood tie) cannot consummate a new marriage for three years after the Dowager Empress's death. Or does that mean that even a couple in an established union with that degree of blood relationship to the deceased must also give up sex for the duration?
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Chapter 160
Date: 2023-01-29 01:56 pm (UTC)- I’m befuddled by the strict nature of the national mourning. Again, who invokes one of these Super Mourning periods? It can't be any member of the imperial family, or they'd never have time to reproduce. Even her great grandson (who may only have a nominal relationship to the Dowager Empress, rather than a blood tie) cannot consummate a new marriage for three years after the Dowager Empress's death. Or does that mean that even a couple in an established union with that degree of blood relationship to the deceased must also give up sex for the duration?