22) the other side of the coin

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Li Yu forbid herself to sleep until Dai Yu came back.

No matter how hard she tried to fight her fatigue. She didn't hold up. Slowly she sank away in a deep peaceful sleep.

When she woke up the next morning, Dai had returned. She was sitting on the edge of her bed with her blanket around her shoulders. It looked like she had it really cold, but the room temperature was fine.

"Dai?"
"Good morning"
She said it without joy in her voice.

"You returned very late."
"I didn't sleep here."
"No?"
"No."
"Where then?"
"Somewhere else."

Li started to understand very late that Dai had slept with the king. In the literal sense.

"Madam Chu has everything under control."
That was nonsense. What is there to keep control over when you sleep in someone else's bed?

Dai stood up and put the blanket back on the bed.
"Come. Wash day." she said, "are you coming along?"

It all felt wrong.

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