Chapter 420: A Change
" Apparently, in the letter the Water Empress wrote for you, she asked for your help to take her out of the Water Kingdom. That dowager is apparently creating a lot of trouble for her and she wanted a safe space. Since you weren’t replying, the Water Empress sent a letter to our Emperor. My husband who was waiting outside the Imperial study happened to hear the Emperor talking about this to Prince Jin. I thought you knew... ", Maya herself was confused.
Surely these kind of important matters should have reached her ears, right?
" Is that so.. ", Xing’s tone was flat as she held back her tears.
Seiren who overheard the talk between them told his wife without hiding anything from her. Yet her husband...
He doesn’t trust me for some reason. Why might that be?
No matter how much Xing racked her mind, she couldn’t possibly understand why he might be acting this way.
"When was that?", Xing asked. So Yukiko is in trouble?
"At least a couple months back", Maya replied with her pretty brown eyes focused at Xing.
"It seems like that was solved though. There seems to be another letter saying that she is fine and no need to bother you. She was also worried for your well-being it seems since she didn’t receive any reply for the other two letters she wrote. I thought that you must have figured out her location ready.... But never mind... ", Maya deviated to other topics as she could feel Xing’s dejection.
So he held three of Yukiko’s letters back? Xing felt like thousand needles were pricking her heart.
What did I do to deserve his scrutiny? Why can’t he tell me what it is?
" So Yukiko is fine now?", Xing confirmed with Maya before she left for her Manor. As she saw the big threshold of their Manor, she felt that eerie feeling she had when she entered the palace.