Chapter 79: Court Exams
The Emperor who had composed himself after his coughing fit answered Shengli who was busy feeding Xing.
" Lord Táng promised Zhen that she’ll write the exams and so I brought.."
"Abducted", Shengli said in an imposing aura much more suffocating than that of the Emperor who used the Imperial pronoun to regain his superiority and the Emperor cowed under Shengli’s angry glare.
"And I thought she had already asked to withdraw from that promise on grounds that she is a female", Shengli added in the imposing tone, casually pouring tea and gave the cup to Xing.
"About that..", Rijun tried to answer but shut his mouth immediately sensing the killer aura from Shengli.
"No can do! Brother, I am the Emperor and what I say goes. She promised and she has to fulfil the promise", he folded his arms and pouted making Rijun wonder who is the actual Emperor here.
Xing who didn’t care about anything after Shengli started to talk back to the Emperor, was happily eating desserts. Who needs to work hard when you are being pampered by your man? I can just enjoy my life lazily eating and sleeping!
Suddenly, a frightening voice that instilled fear even though it passed through the door was heard, " Huojin, Is he here?"
Of course the voice that roared in the battlefield making people follow it’s owner and the enemies tremble made everyone panicked with Xing being the exception who looked at him with a smile.
Lord Zhong entered the room and saw the Emperor trying to jump out of the window and Rijun holding him back and growled, " Sit!" and everyone crawled around trying to sit.
Lord Zhong gave an earful to Huojin and The Emperor for being irresponsible, with Shengli fanning the flames giving out pointers with fervour. Both of them listened to his scolding facing the floor and Huojin had to kneel to apologise.
He then threw the question paper to Huojin and blamed for trying to steal the question papers and if they were caught it would have caused a bigger scandal. Even the Emperor was scolded for leaving the palace on the day he had to be there and even if he wanted Xing to take the test, he could have sneaked her in rather than the Emperor sneaking out.