His Majesty And I ✔️

After

Chapter 20

Second Class Female Attendant Wei
Lady Wei Li Lian
Hougong

Li Lian had her fingers in her ears, screaming. She heaved and huffed with Dao sitting across her, cross-legged on her bed and telling her she was doing good.

She released her fingers and sighed. "This is not working Dao." The anxiety still sat on her chest and wasn't leaving.

"Aiya. But what were you thinking telling His Majesty he should grow balls and visit you? You think you are the only beautiful woman in the harem?"

Ai entered Li Lian's bedchamber holding a paper sack. "Dao! Speak to Her Ladyship with respect. Stop being mannerless," she refuted.

When Dao came back from the Lady Queens manor she refused to address Li Lian formally in private. Because her mother and Li Lian had a sweet friendship she saw it as given right to be informal.

Li Lian didn't sort of mind. Friends came once in a grey moon in her life. If Dao wanted to address her like an acquaintance, she would let her have her way.

"Then what was I to say?" Li Lian felt dejected. Since the day she had the tea tasting, Yuwen Hong ignored her.

"You were supposed to say," Dao changed her tone, sounding sultry, "I'm hot and needy for the emperor. May His Majesty come touch me tonight?"

Li Lian guffawed. "That doesn't sound like something I would say."

"Better than talking about balls. That insults a man's ego."

"Clearly you don't understand Yuwen Hong. His ego soars above the sky. My few words will do nothing to trample it." Li Lian removed her hair that fell into her baggy nightwear. "I will not beg more than I did."

"Ehh. You have to join the queue or lose out." Dao shook her head in false pity. "But it's not like you are not losing already. He didn't come here, did he?"

Did she have to remind her? Yuwen was not paying attention to her.

Many men have told her she is the most beautiful. So why was he ignoring her when she has been dressing up for him and doing her face with heavy make-up?

Li Lian started heaving anxiously again. What was this? Is this what it felt like to fancy someone that everyone was after?

"Dao! Stop it." Ai complained, handing Li Lian the sack she brought in. "Here, My Lady. Breathe in and out slowly." She rubbed Li Lian's back, helping her seat straight against the headboard of her bed. "Think happy thoughts. Don't take Dao's words to heart."

"I sh... I shouldn't... I shouldn't have listened to Dao." Li Lian struggled for breath.

Stupid girl with her dirty books. Li Lian was told corny lines by Dao to say to His Majesty. On that day Dao said the way to a man's heart was through his manhood. The dirty talk would turn him on and have him at her mercy.

That's not what happened. Yuwen Hong was not speaking to her. That was all after summoning all her courage to speak filthy things, embarrassing herself in the process.

"But Li Lian. I just shared what I knew." Dao pulled out another of her dirty books from her sleeves.

"Yes. And look where that got me?'

"When my friend, the one who is courting a guard, said dirty things to her lover when he was upset, it worked." Dao flipped a page and yawned.

Maybe it only worked for silly fights. The fights of, who did this or that? In her case with Yuwen Hong, it was about who almost killed who? Not any normal fight, therefore they couldn't be fixed with normal solutions.