79 Woman to Woman (1/2)
BAI YANG LIU
YIYUAN
”Eh. Eh.” Yang Liu blocked the entrance of a general walking out of the bathing chambers.
”His Highness,” he smiled as he bowed his head.
”Have you seen the Grand General?”
”Yes Grand General is inside, Your Highness.”
Yang Liu continued on, Mo right beside her. He was the reason why the Grand Dowager Empress was willing to let Yang Liu come to YiYuan.
Red eye rimmed, with dark circles around she had awaited for the Grand Dowager Empress to return from her outside visit so she could get permission to come see her brother. She needed him to grant her what she required most.
”Your Highness if you will not let me go, I will cut off my life. I cannot sleep until I see the emperor,” she had begged her grandmother.
The bathing chambers were not really filled with people but they were quite a handful inside. She scanned the room without interest, just determined to find the man who had the power to change her life forever.
”Prince Kuan Hui?” Someone shouted from her left.
She looked over to see two generals girded in the steaming aqua blue pools. They waved toward her in adoration. ”Come join us!”
”Should I?” She imagined a possible way she could get away with the fact that she was female. One general jumped onto the other general, dipping him underneath into the hot water, and they all broke into laughter.
That looked like so much fun.
Why not? She could bandage herself and also have a rob on as she went in. It was no big deal to see naked men, as she had been exposed to that all her life due to her assumed gender.
”Wait for me!” She screamed as she looked around for a towel and a rob.
”No, you don't.” Someone held her back in protest.
That voice. She could recognise it even in her dreams.
”Why can't I?” She snapped harshly as she turned, staring up at General Feng.
Why did he act like he cared for her? Was he not the one who was courting another woman who was not her?
”His Highness may not get physical in any type of way with commoners.”
”They are nobles, not commoners.”
He looked gorgeous in dark green robes but her? She looked quite the mess.
”Still not royalty, Your Highness.”
”And who are you to tell me the rules?” Who was he to break her heart?
”Get her away from here,” he commanded Mo, his eyes not on both of them but behind her. He frowned in disapproval and pointedly left them when someone called for him.
Yang Liu thumped the ground with her feet in frustration.
She hated him. He didn't even ask why she was a mess when she spent the past days crying for him. Her heart was broken and it hurt a lot. General Feng's heart was with someone who was not her. How could she have missed it and not found out way earlier so that she could save herself from the pain?