Book 14: Chapter 29
“All right. Now, let me hear what you want to say. It’s clear from your gaze that something happened. I noticed it long ago. I know you’re hiding something from me. The way you look at our child evidently shows that you’re very apologetic. Did you betray me?” asked Ling Yue.
Ling Yue finally returned to her human form after a long time in her fox form. She sat opposite me and looked at me with her eyes narrowed as she combed her long red tail.
Our child was wrapped up in a blanket and lying in the crib located next to Ling Yue. Ling Yue looked at me then our child. She softly giggled, and then caressed her child’s head. Our child went to sleep after having a full meal. She was still in the form of a fox, though…
“It’s all right. Don’t worry. She’ll become like me after a week. What a cute girl. I feel she’s prettier than me. She’s inherited our race’s eyes,” remarked Ling Yue.
I couldn’t see our child having any traits that resembled me. I wasn’t a fox, after all… I couldn’t see any resemblance between me and her in her current state.
Ling Yue gently caressed her child, and then gave her a forehead kiss. She then looked back at me. Her tender expression immediately vanished. She, instead, wore on a stern and reprimanding expression. Her change upset me a little… Voice soft, she questioned, “I sent a message to the Imperial Palace beforehand. Did you not receive it? Why did you only arrive when I was going through so much pain?”
I attempted to hug Ling Yue; however, she slapped me without a word beforehand. The slap virtually sent me back to the days where I could see the former ice and snow and anthropoid silhouettes… Angry, she loudly exclaimed, “I’m being serious here. What do you want? Don’t even think about touching me unless you properly explain why you were late today!! You may be here now, but that doesn’t change the fact that you were late!!”
I held my hand to my face. I explained, “Okay, okay, okay… I’ll tell you. Simply put, I wasn’t in the Imperial Palace… So, I never received the message you sent. Therefore, I didn’t know when you were scheduled to give birth… Furthermore… I was elsewhere…”
Ling Yue looked as if she was pondering whether or not I was lying to her. I didn’t feel guilty. Thus, I looked at her without behaving as if I was guilty. That was why she didn’t say anything, either. Instead, she followed up by asking, “What about Nier and the rest, then? Why are they back? Where have you been? Why didn’t you come back? Do you have another mistress out there?”