Chapter 274: The Welcome
On the day of Rijun’s wedding, Xing was getting ready in her courtyard when Bai Li was beside her as they were doing her hair. Seeing her still not so happy about this wedding, he shook his head.
A lot happened in the past few weeks with the Water Kingdom wanting the wedding to be held in their kingdom as it is customary for the wedding ceremony to be conducted in the bride’s place in their kingdom. Xing extremely opposed to it and so the wedding ceremony is arranged at the Huang Jasmine Manor as the bride’s home.
Everyone was surprised to see the Empress flaring up at the emissary sent from the Water Kingdom not to address Takano as the ’Princess’. Of course she made them believe it was because she is already a Huang so it is not necessary to refer to her with her old title. Only Bai Li knew of the tantrum she threw in her courtyard that night murmuring why someone whose title was "given" by the dowager after the death of the previous emperor of the water kingdom, should be addressed as a princess all the time.
"She is not of royal blood... How dare she be addressed as a Princess? If she is a princess, then I am.... I am... Ah, right! I’m an Empress", she was too angry to realise that she holds the title of the Empress right now and also how she has started to discriminate a person by their bloodline and the names of their families.
The root of Xing’s displeasure for Takano was the new reveal that the Jin Family who is said to have stolen the navy belonging to the Ouyang Family is actually the Kei sibling’s maternal family.
"Those ship stealers... Now to lend back their ship, is forcing the Huang family by seducing my brother", she mumbled.
Bai Li by her side rolled his eyes, "Will you stop acting so irritated? We all know you are agreeing to this wedding only because you love your brother and not for any other reason. So just shut up", he said pushing a lotus hairpin made with red jade into her hair.
"You!", Xing pointed her finger at Bai Li and she had nothing to retort and sat back straight folding her hands.
True, when her brother pleaded her to let him marry her that day in the Imperial Study, she had changed her heart to give in to her brother’s wishes... Almost a ninety percentage... . The letter from the Water Emperor was only the last push that changed her heart a hundred percent.
Anyone should have a chance to have their life with the one they want! More so, her brother!
Xing did look for other ways they could survive and possibly win against those strong navy of the Sky Kingdom. And Seiren had an important news for her a couple of weeks back.
Till then the great sands to the South of their kingdom have been an unexplored land with no one knowing the routes. Apparently Seiren had gotten a map that would enable the passage of the Great Sands into the Sky Kingdom directly to the capital city. His days of wandering as a silk pants surely paid off. He had many acquaintances from various places.