Chapter 405: The Curse
Chenglei didn’t meet with Xing for the next few days and Xing was walking around with Su Yunxi as she made rounds around the inner palace to see if all the preparations are going well. In the red phoenix robes and hairdress, she looked elegant and poised.
"I heard many women were sent to the inner palace", Xing initiated the talk that Yunxi was hesitating to bring up. Xing had noticed the stacks of scrolls of paintings of women from various families that were sent to Su Yunxi but was withheld by her supposed brother since he knew it would hurt his wife.
Xing knew this would be the way of the life in the palace. There will be always women sent in by their families for one reason or another and Yunxi being the Empress, should be expected to maintain her husband’s Harem as a part of her duties. She should be supervising the women in the Harem and should decide upon who enters the Harem and might share a bed with her husband and to top it off, she would be expected to do it with a smile in her face.
Terrifying!
"I know my role, Mingxia. I know...", she sighed.
"Yeah..",Xing didn’t know what to say to her. But she had a feeling in her heart that her supposed brother who had been planning to become the Emperor for a while and love his wife a lot will have a plan for this.
"You’ve managed a Harem before, haven’t you?", she asked and Xing nodded.
"It’s not the same though. The Emperor was not my husband and I treated it as a job", Xing added. When feelings and emotions are added, everything gets more complicated.
There was a long silence as they walked to a garden with well maintained flowers. Even though it was autumn, there were very well maintained flowers blooming all through the garden and with bees buzzing, butterflies fluttering, that place looked mesmerising.
Ah, Xing! Since when did you start appreciating gardens? Guess you’ve changed too! Xing talked to herself.
"I trust him, Mingxia", Su Yunxi told Xing as they were sitting in a stone table beside a fake lake and her face had a faint blush making her looking adorable.
"I know", Xing nodded. She saw how the Fire Emperor was massaging Yunxi’s legs last night when she could not fall asleep. Not many men would do that for their wife and certainly she didn’t expect someone like him who’d rigidly follow tradition to do that.