65 Selfish To Have Her (1/2)

BAI SHEN HONG

EMPEROR HUIZHONG

HOUGONG

Shen Hong was back in Hougong two days later and his mother was present this time. She was surprised to see him but all the more delighted to host him. They had lunch together in which she insisted that they eat his favourite food.

Whenever he visited, she made everything about him.

After a hearty lunch, his mother had her maids massage and oil her feet. Him on the other hand, he kept looking about expecting Little Fox to emerge but she was nowhere to be seen.

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He gulped down a heavy swig of wine offered to him. ”Muqin, where is... the sick maid I saw the other night?”

”Who?” She looked around. ”Oh, Li'er?”

He nodded.

”Li'er is still unwell,” she mused.

”Why? What exactly happened to her?”

”Méiyǒu(No), His Majesty does not have to worry about such matters,” she disregarded the matter, ”tell me what Yu'er has been busy with, instead.” She preferred to talk about him than any other.

He knew if he pushed the topic she would become suspicious about his relationship with her maid. He didn't care though, he wanted to know how she was doing.

”Muqin, how is she today?” he insisted.

His mother stopped talking and looked at him, suspicion imprinted in her eyes.

”No, Yuwen Hong.” She pointed at him, rebuking. ”Not my Li Lian.” When his mother used his full name given by her, it meant she was being serious about the issue at hand.

”Muqin, Yu'er is just curious,” he smirked.

His mother was not buying it. She picked the zabuton cushions by her side and threw them at him. ”You made my other two palace maids concubines. Moreover, you bed them once and discarded them.”

He groaned and downed more wine. Talking about women with his mother was uncomfortable especially when in her books, he couldn't be trusted.

”So is that why you came to visit me in plain clothes? You are fooling her aren't you?” She goggled his plain khaki changpao.

He avoided her eyes, ”Claiming to be the Grand General is not a lie.” If there are two people he had to pick that knew him the most, it would be Luo Meng and his mother.

She shook her head vehemently. ”Li Lian is not a forgiving person.”

Neither was he. ”Seems like we are a match made by the heavens.”

”No Yu'er. You will not touch her, she is mine.”

He took his refilled cup and drained it with one swoop. Alcohol did not affect him much and somehow he felt nervous to see Little Fox. That was not the normality. ”This is different muqin, the other threw themselves at me, and it couldn't be helped. I was just a helpless victim.”

”That's a lie.” She heaved. ”Li'er is a good girl, you will not have her. She is also special to me Yu'er.” Her voice softened at the end.

”I won't touch her,” he lied. He wasn't going to stop until he had her so that he could wipe her off his system. That was the selfish bastard he was.

”And I am to believe that?”