Emperor And I ✔️

Love Bite

Chapter 51

Consort Wang
Dragon Study Quarters

When they walked towards the Dragon Study Quarters they were welcomed by disapproving stares from the emperor's entourage. Noticing their arrival, Eunuch Nam silently left where he was stationed by the doors.

Consort Wang wondered whether who she sought for was inside. Yesterday she did not bother to try coming for she heard that he was practicing all night with Luo Meng.

"Your Highness." He bowed towards her and then the little princess who stood beside her.

"Eunuch Nam, announce to his majesty that we are here."

"Your Highness knows no consort or concubine can appear before his majesty unless summoned." He indirectly said no.

"It's the princess who asked me to accompany her to see [1]Fuhuang." She motioned towards her daughter who held a painting in one of her hands. Her little five year old hands still had painting marks that had refused to come off.

The eunuch scrutinised the little princess before reluctantly letting the matter prevail. "Very well then." He then padded to the enclosed doors.

"Your majesty, Princess Cai Wenjin and Consort Wang ask for your admittance."

No response returned.

"Your majesty! Princess―"

"Granted." The emperor said from the inside.

Eunuch Nam looked back at the two visitors with a slight nod. They were led inside while their own entourage parked beside the emperor's.

The emperor set behind a huge desk that was swamped with various scrolls. He looked like the whole world was on his shoulders with the pending work that had accumulated on his leave for the camp.

He looked up at the princess and gladly smiled. "Princess."

However, the two had to first honour decorum before him, so they enclasped their hands above their heads and lowered to their knees, falling down with their hands flat on the floor while foreheads kissed the floor. Courteously standing up again, they enclasped their hands at chest level and stuck their right foot to the back as they lowered their bodies slightly.

"You may rise." The emperor stood up and walked them to his study lounge, where he often entertained visitors that came for him privately in his working hours. He wore a neat grey changpao with no embroidery, something plain as he probably had not planned to entertain anyone but keep himself to his impending work all day.

The study lounging room was normally sunlit with yellow rays but since it was night the pearl white and yellow was merged with the brown dull color of shelves that kept the dozen piles of books.

"His Majesty must see what I made." The princess rushed over to her father and held up the painting for him.

The emperor reclined on a gold zabuton floor cushion while observing the painting. Consort Wang sat across from them, a small table separating them. From where she was, she couldn't help noticing the dark swelling on his neck.

Consort Wang's sharp nails dug into her palm. She couldn't contain the jealousy seething through as she was fully aware that it was a love bite. It was huge, staring back at her and outrightly mocking her. Which other woman had he been with? She had sent her palace maids to ask for time with him and they told her that, he was busy with work. Looks like work included a serpent coiling around his neck.

What about her? He never let her touch him in bed, only he did the touching and she thought that applied to everyone else, but the love bite on his neck was saying otherwise.