Lan Li Ling looks towards the teacher trying his best, "your characters are wrong! How dumb can you be?!"
The teacher whips the shoulder with a stick causing the male to hissed, "I'm sorry".
"Stupid! Stupid! You shall learn more next class read and copy all these!"
Around fifteen (15) scrolls where placed on the table "Don't forget to write seven (7) full scrolls of literature and poetry!! You a pathetic wife for Hou Yan!! You are lucky he chose you and to think you can't do such simple things!!"
Lan Li Ling is feeling terrible, the teacher walks out as he picks up the scrolls he can barely understand one character much less 12. He is such a useless wife maybe he has gotten too comfortable that he starts forgetting who he was.
Lan Li Ling sits picking up a scroll, he couldn't understand anything!
Yan Mei Lin is playing hopscotch with his maid Chin along with two others, Xin Yong Nian too was playing but his short legs and lack of understanding of the game didn't get him for.
"1,2,1.." Chin sang as she casually hops in each box.
"Biscuit, Chin Chin is quite good."
"Chin Chin is great!"
The children cheers, Chin can't help stop and smile at her two adorable masters she thank the heavens for being hired here. Pleasant meals good pay to sustain her family not mention being able to serve such a cute and loving master!
She is thinking of what to dress the master in tonight, better ointment and skincare! After all his hair still had split ends more snacks. So much to do so much care she doesn't want such a refine dignified gent of prominent household such as this to raise an ugly duckling not under her care!
"Chin Chin? You stepped in a line,"
Chin looks down and saw she indeed stepped on a line it must've been while she is distracted. "Well, I see goodness me, better luck next time."
After court meeting finally ended and all the officials and ministers where dismissed the emperor raise his hand.
"Hou Yan stay behind,"
Yan Chao Xiang soon bows and stand obedient as the rest leaves the room, soon the palace doors close and silence fills the room.
"Your imperial majesty?" Yan Chao Xiang inquires.
"I've heard you carried in a child?"
"Yes, my child," Hou Yan informs.
"Your child? Illegitimate?"
"I'd like give legitimacy,"
"But that'll means having your current wife adopting him, which he may be unwilling considering it would put him before his actual newborn," the emperor said, he is use to scheming spouses.
"That will not be a problem, Biscuit is a gent," Hou Yan spoke with no change in tone.
"What's this? Go have the servants prepare tea and snacks in the garden, Hou Yan join me,"
Yan Chao Xiang cups his hands and bow, "this one is honored you're imperial majesty."
The emperor feels elite he can have one of his grandchildren marry his get, even making them empress and emperor. With Hou Yan's power and money this empire has several less worries! Since he couldn't sneak in a wife for Hou Yan surely his child won't slip through his sticky and honeyed fingers. Stupid Hou Yan he'll never escape an emperor's greed!
"HAHAHA HAHA HAHAHA HAHA HAHAHA!! COUGH! COUGH!! Jin! Jin water~"
Hou Yan gently pats the choking old man's back as Jin hurries back with the water
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The emperor and Yan Chao Xiang was now in the garden enjoying the tea, Yan Chao Xiang thinks the garden lovely it makes realised all over again how different this world was from his. In his world plants where not much as everything had become artificial and advance so the natural beauty of this world did not exist where he was and technically dominated everything, looking at this world Yan Chao Xiang feels a strangeness in his heart after being overwhelmed by the peace and the natural beauty. Taking a sip of the green tea for a moment Yan Chao Xiang was entrance by the koi fish. But soon his attention was grabbed by the emperor once more.
"So tell me about your first child,"
"I've just met him," he said bluntly.
"Oh–"
"But he is very small, like a Biscuit, very shy and cowardly like a small animal, he needs to be fatten he likes pretty things, though he is sad, I want see him sleep, I want him be fat like meat bun and dumpling and want him to smile brightly like my wife."
Yan Chao Xiang tone was cold and unmoving it was as if he was speaking about objects and not people but the emperor's heart was touched indeed, was Hou Yan always like this? He was never such a sweet talker.
"I miss my scheming wife and children, maybe I should treasure them more." The emperor blew his snot in a cloth feeling the mood.
"The crown prince will be returning tomorrow," Jin informs
"Maybe not… I mean they are my family and this is palace we are talking about," the emperor leans back after being struck with the that is… all of his family are evil bitches.
Yan Chao Xiang was confused but he simply sip tea as he thinks about his wife and children.
"By the way Hou Yan, your eldest how old is he?"
"9 years old,"
"9? So he should be going to school then?"
"Yes, I'll enroll him after legitimizing him," Hou Yan informs.
"Then, why not let my grandson aide him? After all they are close in age and I'm sure they will get along?"
"Your grandson?"
"Yes, Ah, Bring your eldest around sometimes I'll introduce them they can be play mates". The emperor sneakily said.
Yan Chao Xiang thinks deeply then softly whispers. "Playmates".
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