61 One Sided Love (2/2)
What bells? Yang Liu sighed and got out of bed. She would call her maids to help her dress. If the witch would not leave her to be, she could just as well ignore her and carry on with her duties. She was not going to tolerate her nonsense any moment longer.
Yang Liu. wondered where General Feng was. She wanted to ask him about last night. The last thing she recalled was drinking with him at the Lovers restaurant.
”Yang Liu.” Dowager Empress Wang admonished the rude behaviour of leaving before she was done with her.
She did not respond as she began to unwrap her sleeping garments.
”Yang Liu!”
Suddenly, she was dragged by the arm and thrown on the bed. Her head hit the bed first, which hurt.
”You witc―”
”Will you shut up and listen to me for once?” The Dowager Empress clutched her hands painfully, her eyes wide in a threatening manner. Yang Liu saw a wide vain leaping on her forehead. Dowager Empress Wang was not the person to act measily like her. This had to be important, therefore she kept quiet.
”I will help you.” Dowager Empress Wang let her go and set on the bed again, looking away from her.
”With what?”
”I will help you reveal your true identity, so that you can be with the love of your life.”
Yang Liu gazed at her mother in disbelief. The witch always shunned her request to tell the truth concernig her gender. But on this day she was offering her an opportunity.
”Wwh... WHy now?” she stuttered.
”Because it is now that I realise that you mean so much to me. I too cannot live like this anymore.” Dowager Empress Wang turned and reached out to touch her. Yang Liu moved away. ”I am desperate to have a relationship with you, Yang Liu. As my daughter.”
Dowager Empress Wang did not care for her all these years, and now she was declaring motherly love to her. Yang Liu was not so keen to jump on the wagon. She took a while to speak. ”I will think about it.”
”What is there to think about? Here I am, making a sacrifice for you. Do you know that this confession will have me in Shen Hong's hands for punishment?” Dowager Empress Wang ill tempered. ”I may die because of this.”
Yang Liu folded her hands. ”I will get back to you after consulting Grand Consort Shu.”
”Yang Liu, I am you mother!”
”Just because you are willing to die for me does not make you my mother. This is you rectifying your mistakes like you should have done a long time ago.”
Dowager Empress Wang gave a ghastly laugh. ”You think that woman cares for you?” she scorned. ”All she has in her heart is the emperor.”
”Right?” Yang Liu stood up. ”Then leave me be that I go make my morning greetings to the mother who I have unrequited love towards.” Tears were collecting in her eyes that she wished the stranger to her heart not to see. She wildly grabbed the clothes that her palace maids had placed on a wooden chair, eager to leave the room. ”Because that is all I know isn't it? One sided love.”
GRAMMAR
Why does the emperor call his mother 'muqin' while the Dowager Empress is 'mohou' to her daughter Yang Liu?
Because in the Chinese language there is many ways to say mother depending on the relationship.
Mohou is used as to say 'empress mother' while 'muqin' is more of a term used by the emperor because they are so close to one another that they are not as formal. Also take into account that before the emperor was taken away from his mother he was raised by her not as a future emperor but as just any normal child.
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