Chance Encounters-An Eternal Love of Dreams Fan Fiction

Chapter Two - The Second Meeting

A few days later, Donghua saw her again, this time as she entered his personal study carefully carrying a plate of pastries while he was in a meeting. He's never seen her in his study before but maybe he hadn't been paying attention before.  He never really looked at the fairy maids that came in to serve him and to clean his villa so its possible he just wasn't looking more closely.  She made a curtsy but appeared unsure if she should approach his table.  Finally, she must have decided that she may interrupt the meeting if she served the pastries, so she just removed to the side waiting for the meeting to conclude.  He watched her from the corner of his eye and noted with amusement the way she was curiously looking around his study, nodding as if in approval as she glanced at the different sword designs displayed on his walls.  

This was the first time that Feng Jiu had entered this inner sanctum of Dijun and she did not know the correct protocol to follow.  She had been hoping that Chonglin, the head Steward of Dijun would be there so she could ask him but he was not there as she expected him to be.  Normally, she would not even be serving him because she was part of the kitchen staff and was not one of those authorized to enter the personal villa of Dijun.  However, the maid who had been assigned to him had hurt her hands that morning and Feng Jiu who was off kitchen duty had volunteered to go in her stead when she found out that the maid was bringing the Sorrowless Cakes that Feng Jiu had just baked to Dijun.  There had been a special request for that particular Cake that morning and the cook had assigned it to Feng Jiu knowing that she had recently perfected her recipe for it.  Feng Jiu had always wanted to see the reaction of Dijun to the dishes that she made and this was the perfect chance.  So, even though she wasn't familiar with the protocols in serving him, Feng Jiu decided that she could probably wing it.  After all, how hard could it be to serve pastries?

As she stood on the side, she tried her best to stay put and not fidget as the meeting seem to be important.  A council member was reporting to Dijun and Feng Jiu immediately perked up when she heard the name of Prince Ye Hua mentioned.  Her Aunt, the present Queen of Qingqiu, Bai Qian had been engaged to the Crown Prince for a few years now to forge an alliance between the Fox Realm and the Celestial Kingdom but so far no marriage date had been set. Her Gugu was now somewhere in the Mortal Realms going through her Mortal trials and she knew everyone in the Fox Realm, including her, was worried as they had no news of her for a few years now.  Her father Bai Yi Di Jun have been taking care of the Realm in the meantime.  Feng Jiu frowned as soon as she heard that the Crown Prince had brought a pregnant mortal woman into the Sky Kingdom.  Based on the recitation of fact, this woman Susu, was someone that Ye Hua had married in the mortal kingdom  Now that she was pregnant, he wanted to bring her in as one of his concubines.  This matter was causing an uproar in the Sky Kingdom as something like this has never happened before.  How could a Prince, a Crown Prince at that, even think of allowing a mortal woman to stay in his Palace.  It was completely unacceptable.  But it seems that Ye Hua was digging his foot in and refusing to bring the woman back to the Mortal Realms.  Tianjun and the other council members were trying to keep this matter under wraps as they did not want the news to reach the Fox Realm yet hoping to resolve it before it can escalate.  However, everyone knew that by the quickness with which gossip, especially gossip as juicy as this, spreads around the Sky Kingdom, everyone in the whole of the Immortal Realms would know by the end of the week exactly what was happening.  Feng Jiu, who was listening intently now, was looking more and more indignant on behalf of her Aunt.  Although, she knew that the match between Ye Hua and Bai Qian was political in nature and as far from a love match as possible, the news that Ye Hua, who had been dragging his feet on setting a marriage date, had impregnated someone and a mortal woman at that, while he was engaged to her Gugu would be humiliating for her Aunt and the Fox Realm in general.  She wondered if there was something she could do about it.