Zhen Huatian woke up in an unfamiliar room. The room was neat with a screen displaying four cranes flying to the mountains and bamboos sewn at the edge of the screen. She blinked and slowly sat up, looking around silently. From the outside of the room, she can hear the small birds singing their morning songs and a few footsteps away from her room.
She moves the thin curtain to the side and slowly descends from the large bed of white pillows and white quilt. She noticed that she was wearing a different robe, and remembered what happened last night.
After Lan Xichen left with those sweet words, the maidservants who were outside of the room at that time witnessed and heard his words and immediately processed the situation at hand.
'This lady was professed by the Sect leader's love, this means that this Lady will be their future Mistress! Finally! The Sect leader will not be lonely anymore!' The glittering light from their eyes was undisguised while they served her with utmost care and sincerity.
Zhen Huatian, who was still in a daze from what she heard was taken care of while bathing by the maidservants. They added rose oil scent and milk to the bathwater, while one maidservant was assigned to massage her shoulders and some to wipe her arms.
When she snapped out of her daze, she was already sitting in front of the vanity mirror while a maidservant was carefully combing her long raven hair, and not before long, she was already sound asleep.
Just remembering last night made her feel embarrassed and perplexed at herself. Embarrassed that she was so dazed by Lan Xichen's words and perplexed that she just let the maidservants serve her and touch her.
'This is such an embarrassing feat of my life, can I just bury myself to death once more?' Zhen Huatian covered her face and sighed inside her heart. She stood up and went to the receiving area of the large room to seat at the chair. Before she could pick herself up from reminiscing, there was a knock from her door, before a voice follows.
"Greetings to Lady, we are here to deliver the Lady's breakfast and spare clothes. Can these maidservants come in?" Zhen Huatian heard her voice and she gives her access to come inside her room.
There were three maidservants in total, one was holding the tray of food, the other holding the folded clothes while the third one was holding a jade box. They paid their respects to her before they did their assigned jobs. The one with the jade box went in front of Zhen Huatian and presented the box to her.
"Lady, the Sect Leader told this maidservant to offer you the jade box of bath oils, each bottle has an insignia of which flower it was made of. Please pick one to use for Lady's bath later," The maidservant said and bow down while holding the jade box open.
Zhen Huatian peeked silently and indeed there were symbols of flowers from each bottle. She reached out and picked the rose oil. It was the first time that she took a bath with rose oil and she quite like the aroma.
The maidservant closed the jade box and left it at the square table beside the bed and carefully held the bottle from her fingertips, telling her that she will start preparing for her bath, and left the room towards the bathroom. Another maidservant approached her side and presented white robes with light-colored embroidery of lotus, wild rose, and osmanthus flowers.
"Asking Lady to pick the robe the Lady wants to wear today," The maid said and showed the three robes she was holding with a wooden tray. It was all white and she was not surprised with that, since this is the Gusu Lan Sect, white and blue, and light green were their colors. There were the Fangling (square collar)with wild rose embroidery, Yuanling (round collar) with lotus embroidery, and Zhiling (straight collar) with the osmanthus flower embroidery.
Zhen Huatian almost immediately picked the lotus embroidered robe when she remembered about the past she has with the Wei Wuxian. Zhen Huatian felt a bit suffocated and uncomfortable inside of her heart. She needs to forget him now, this useless love of hers towards him was not worth it anymore. She needs to move on.
"The Fangling robe," She said in a dismissive tone, and the maidservant bows down before retreating the room. She focused on eating her food while the maidservant who served the food was brewing tea for Zhen Huatian.
With a hearty meal and refreshing bath, Zhen Huatian dressed on the Fangling robe embroidered with wild roses on the sleeves and the skirt. The maidservant inserted a jade flower hairpin on her half bun before combing the rest of her hair down.
Zhen Huatian barely remembered, from her distant past, that the unmarried ladies have to wear their hair down to hide their nape and for the married ladies, their hair would be always up, showing their neck.
'... Wasn't I married already?' Zhen Huatian blinked before noticing that the maidservants already left the room. She slowly stood up from the chair before walking out of the room, there was not a soul in sight, or more like nobody was there except her in the courtyard, from a distance, she can faintly hear the lectures in the main courtyard, and heard some students of the sect learning swordsmanship. She started to walk towards the garden of the courtyard she was staying at and found some play koi fishes on the pond. Looking around the pound, she saw the blue pouch left at the big rock near the flower bed, she dared to peek and found that it was fish feed. She walked back to the edge of the pond and teased the koi fishes with a little amount of feed between her fingertips.
A smile made its way on her lips and a soft expression was on her face. That was what Lan Xichen witnessed when he decided to visit her. His heart was filled with worry and anxiety last night, thinking that she will still run away and decide to go somewhere far away due to her aching heart. But now, seeing that she was at ease in this courtyard, it was as if all of the burden and uncertainty he was feeling dissolved into a cloud of smoke.
The maidservants who were following behind the Sect leader cautiously stayed silent and started to speculate again. If this Lady will be the Mistress of the Sect Leader, from which sect did she come from? Which branch did she come from? They all wanted to know! Hearing from the three maidservants who attended to her this morning, the Lady was stoic and there were no unnecessary words between them. Also, her bearing is very elegant and alluring, in the sense that the three maidservants want to idolize her! If she was that great, then this Lady must be from a prestigious sect, right? But her robe was black and red adorned with a soaring phoenix, what kind of sect has that kind of symbol?
"Ah!" The servants curiously looked up and found that the lady was surprised seeing the Sect leader, something interesting must be unfolding! They better hide their presence in the open so that they can stay longer and watch the love budding of the Sect Leader!
----
Author silently leaving the chapter updates: ... q(≧▽≦q)q(≧▽≦q)q(≧▽≦q)
Readers having the pings and immediately caught author: ... (⊙_(⊙_⊙)_⊙)(⊙_(⊙_⊙)_⊙)(⊙_(⊙_⊙)_⊙)
Author: ... Uhm... Surprise? (o゜▽゜)o☆
From this chapter onwards, it will leave the original plotline of "The Untamed" Therefore, the Author will solely focus on the ships. YES! SHIPS! ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ
See you all soon!
YOU ARE READING
YILING PATRIACH'S PROTECTOR
Fanfiction'It hurts' - seeing you isolate yourself from others. 'It's suffocating' - seeing you try to reign your feelings. 'It's unbearable...' - seeing you get wronged by others without them knowing the truth about you. The pain gnaws my insides, leaving sc...
