Chapter 138: Many Mysteries
Rumours about the Noble Consort and the Emperor spread fast like wildfire but none of the two parties met again after that.
Xing could not get any news about Shengli and Lin Mubai didn’t give her any reports on the investigations she asked him to conduct and Xing just spent her days meeting Lord Zhong in the morning and just reading books rest of the time.
Xing’s status in the harem was already high as she was a High ranking Consort, the only Consort in the Harem with a powerful family backup.
Not to mention, her father is Huang AoTian!
Also, the fact that she was allowed to break the rules and leave the inner palace was known to everyone. Eunuch Xin got scolded by the Emperor for abiding by the rules and the Noble Consort even visited the Ministry of war to have a chat with Lord Zhong that day and no one stopped her or even educated her. Even so, the Emperor visited her a couple of days later and stayed the whole night with her and had left in a good mood.
All this made everyone wary of her and Xing was treated with respect by everyone and that made her stay in her courtyard more. All these people trying to curry favour with her made her feel sick.
Even now there would be other concubines trying to meet her everyday. Xing made the excuse of being sick due to the cold climate and just stayed inside.
Also she found out that the protection of gods didn’t work here. For the first time in her life, Xing felt the coldness of the winter. She didn’t know how much the Gods had made her life easy till now. She used to feel cold before but it was never this severe. Are snowy winters this chilly always?
Also her heart was constantly hurting thinking about Shengli. With the New Year and her birthday approaching she was feeling extremely sad that she didn’t have Shengli by her side. The problems that didn’t seem big before looked massive to her now.
With only five days to newyear, there was a blizzard out and Xing who could not handle fire was covered in thick and warm clothes with warmers fixed everywhere and was on the verge of crying.