Book 15: Chapter 4
Ling Yue was a woman Ying and Xia met for the first time. Actually, perhaps a mother fox would be more accurate? Xia had just acquired a pair of eyes, so she liked to check everything out. She scanned the scenery she had never seen before and the world she learnt of through word of mouth from her sister. Being able to see her sister was a great blessing to her. After learning Troy was the one who gave her the eyes, her belief that Mr. Troy was a genuinely nice man was reinforced.
Troy protected Xia and her sister without any reason and unconditionally. She was very eager to meet him, but she didn’t meet him after regaining her vision. Instead, she met his mistress. She was puzzled as to why the dignified, confident and polite woman was willing to live there as his mistress. However, when she took Troy’s kindness and gentleness into consideration, it wasn’t too hard to figure out.
Ling Yue never met the sisters, Ying and Xia, before nor had she ever met Sylvanas before. They came to her abode out of the blue without any prior notice, but because of Vyvyan, Ling Yue allowed them passage. Ling Yue was more interested in Ying and Xia, as judging from Vyvyan’s relationship with Sylvanas, she surmised the two were equal in terms of seniority, and therefore were a relatively small threat to her marriage and love. Ying and Xia, on the other hand, were most definitely women around her husband, so she determined that she needed to pay more attention to them.
“The three of us should bath together tonight,” thought Ling Yue.
Ying was more mindful of Ling Yue than Liu Yue, since Liu Yue was but a child, while Ling Yue was a grown fox, thereby potentially being able to put His Majesty at risk… Of course, that was merely her excuse for peeking on Ling Yue.
For the reason the group’s visit was abrupt, they needed longer to prepare dinner. As such, Ling Yue sat down in her soft armchair by the fire to wait. She had her tail hanging down as she sat there jotting something down on a document with her pen. Ying eyed Ling Yue’s every movement from behind. She was very curious. On one hand, Ling Yue was a species she had never seen before. On the other hand, she was His Majesty’s mistress, who lived outside the palace.
“Why does she not reside in the Imperial Palace?” wondered Ying.
“You looking for me for something?” asked Ling Yue.
There was no way Ling Yue couldn’t detect somebody watching her the entire time. She sighed and placed her pen down. The document she wrote on was a record of the recently exported Brilliant Moon Stones. She turned to face Ying. Ying jolted, and then shook her head: “Sorry, nothing.”