Chapter 304: Emperor is in Love, Maybe?
Xing went on to make tea and wondered what might have made the Emperor this angry early in the morning and after a bit of serious thoughts she could deduce it. The only reason he might be this angry after spending a night with a woman...
"Did she use some drug on you?", she asked with her voice shaking and she didn’t feel good and she wanted him to reply no.
"Let it go", the Emperor waved his hands. It’s not like it is new in this place for a woman to use this method to get the Emperor. And he is the Emperor. It is a surprise that till now no woman has succeeded in this. It must be because Mingxia runs a tight ship checking for poisons and aphrodisiacs regularly in every woman’s courtyard. She protected me till now. That pretentious woman used it on me the day she entered and missed Mingxia’s search.
Xing decided to find out the truth. And seeing her focused look the Emperor knew she won’t let this issue rest and will pursue it. It’s not like he actually lost anything... He wanted to sleep with one woman for the rest of his life and now that woman turned out to be that pretentious woman. So what? What difference would it make if it is another woman? Everyone will change in this place! And it is not like doing it with her was that bad... It was good actually! All in all he didn’t lose anything.
Also if Mingxia starts pursuing this, she’d only be blamed as being jealous of the other woman the Emperor favoured. So it would be better if she doesn’t pursue it.
He wanted to tell her that but he knows on the other hand, even if she steals candy from a child in front of a crowd and makes the child cry, she still will be praised by most as caring for that child, judging by the stature she earned in the previous days. So he decided to let her deal with the inner palace workings.
It is amazing he had to never worry about the inner palace till now. There were a little more than twenty women in there and never once did any complaint reach his ears that someone is treated unfairly or having any misgivings. Mingxia is amazing!
He knew it was because of her experience she boasts about from the Heavenly Flowers Palace. But he knows it is not only that but also the fact that she doesn’t love him that way.
If that Harem belonged to his brother, she wouldn’t treat those women fairly, he knew. She’d be jealous making the lives of those women miserable.
Or.... She might seduce those women for herself and turn that into her own Harem...