His Majesty And I ✔️

Wild Prenominition

Make sure you have read chapter 64, wattpad is glitching.

That is the music I played as I wrote this so that I would feel emotional. 👆👆👆 It is from my first favourite historical by the way, which taught me half the palace rules in this book. It had a sad ending and I cried for two weeks. Argh.

Chapter 65

Bai Shen Hong
Emperor Huizhong

"Your Majesty, carry me!" Li Lian jumped up and down childishly, pouting and making dewy eyes.

"Your Majesty," Court Lady Nam objected. "It is a shame for the emperor to carry anyone on his back."

"But what shall we do, I'm tired to walk back," Li Lian whined.

"Hougong is a few steps away." Yuwen Hong said, walking on from the riverside where Li Lian was dying her materials. Her palace maid, Ai, followed behind with a dish of them.

"But I want to be carried." She clutched his arm and snuggled, sighing as she walked with her head resting on it.

"Look." She pointed at the shadow that had both of them in it. Li Lian sometimes acted as if she was a person with a short attention span. "Don't we look marvellous together?"

"Like we are meant to be?" He tried his luck.

"Definitely, like we are meant to be" she giggled. "We are making beautiful silhouettes."

"And in the future, we shall make beautiful babies?"

"Hmm..." She bit her lip in contemplation. "Maybe?"

He grinned, quite thrilled. She was starting to accept him and taking him into his heart. Their love was beginning to bloom and the tiny leaves of life were just sprouting out of the ground, the evidence of the strong tree they would become as two in love.

If only he knew that was the last day they would be together; the last day they would walk under the sun. Maybe he would have carried her like she wanted, taken her everywhere with him, told her he loved her.

Then he wouldn't feel as shattered right now, in disparity, and so distraught.

He wanted his love back. It didn't matter what shape or form she would be in, Li Lian just had to come back.

Yuwen Hong saw the messenger circle him as he rode for Oren's cave. He stopped his horse and waited for the bird to land on his shoulders, before pulling out the note from its legs.

'Li Lian found dead at the bottom of the cliff. Grand Dowager asks His Majesty to return to the palace.'

Dead? Not his Li Lian. She was strong.

Yuwen Hong tore the note apart and ushered commands to his horse, changing direction and riding to the palace.

When he arrived, everyone was already in white. They would start mourning for the unborn in the next hour, he presumed. Concubines were not wailed for because they were not considered part of the family.

Yuwen Hong saw the servicemen entering the palace gates in multitudes, returning from the search. They were reporting where they had been to and what they did according to the order they had been given at the registration station.

"Why are you all returning?" Yuwen Hong shouted to them.

They did not answer as expected, too nervous to do so. The general escorting him from the cliff had to repeat his question for them to answer.