Chapter 96 - Affirmation (1/2)

As evening the evening approached, the Empress dowager sent a servant to inform that she is ill and so would not be attending the welcome banquet. When Lei Xing heard this, she snickered as she thought of the Empress dowager still be brooding over her assault from the morning.

{...Serves her right. She deserves to be whipped! Hahahahahaha...}

{...*It's not funny -_-)...}

{...I have every right to laugh at her misery so MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!...}

{...*...}

Since the Empress dowager was not attending, the Imperial wives were now to meet at the Emperor's palace. Lei Xing's laughter quickly turned to a frown, she was not interested in going back there to relive her embarrassment from the night before.

{...*Told you it wasn't funny...}

{...-_-)'...}

Without a choice in the matter, Lei Xing begrudgingly made her way to the Emperor's palace. When she arrived at the entrance, she took a deep breath to brace herself and walked in.

She arrived at the reception hall to see the Emperor sitting down in the main seat looking towards the doors. Her heart jumped and she quickly averted her eyes and quickly shuffled her way to the front, standing next to Li Ru. She bowed in greeting and then stood with her head slightly lowered and her eyes looking at the ground.

It seemed she was the last person to arrive as usual. The others must have been ecstatic to finally be going to the Emperor's palace and hastened, while Lei Xing had dragged her feet. She was not late and was even a few minutes early, but considering everybody else was already here waiting, she was late.

Lei Xing could feel the eyes from above looking at her but did not dare to look up to check it.

{...I have now become paranoid. Why am I being such a coward? This is not the way to behave -_- ')...}

{...*It's because you car-...}

{...Stop saying nonsense!...}

By this point, everyone in the palace was aware of the Emperor paying Lei Xing special attention since the incident with the Empress dowager.

The others arrived to find the Emperor already sitting in his main seat waiting for them. They greeted him and some even tried to start a conversation, but he either did not respond or simply went, ”En” without even looking at them. He just kept staring at the doors and they all wondered why but they finally figured it out when Lei Xing arrived. His eyes followed her from the doors and he was now staring at her with a small smirk.

Needless to say, Lei Xing was not the only one in a bad mood at the moment. Chen You, for example, was giving Lei Xing a side glare.