Chapter 248 - Hesitant Inclinations (1/2)

The Emperor smiled and wrapped his hands around her and rested his cheek on top of her head, closed his eyes, and simply enjoyed holding her for a bit. She had told him a lot of things, he understood some of it and others he did not. But they were not important, she was all that mattered to him at the moment.

But there is something that he was interested in, ”Xing er', I'm curious about something...”

”Ask...” Lei Xing absentmindedly responded. Now that she had told him the truth about her transmigration, there was really nothing else she could not say.

”You said you found yourself here in a different body, correct?”

”En.”

”So...What does your real self look like?” The Emperor tentatively asked. He had been sitting on this question all afternoon and his curiosity only grew as she talked more and more about this very different world.

Lei Xing knit her brows and then suddenly sat up and looked at him. Then smiled and asked, ”You want to see?”

The Emperor blinked at her and then nodded with a smile. He did not expect that she could actually show him. This day was filled with all sorts of surprising things.

Lei Xing's smile brightened and then she sweetly said, ”I'll draw a portrait for you then~” She then went about flattening out a blank sheet of paper on the table.

The Emperor's smile faltered and he immediately went, ”You'll draw?”

Lei Xing stopped and turned to him with a raised eyebrow, ”Are you doubting my skills?”

”No, just pleasantly surprised. Go ahead.” The Emperor swiftly responded and Lei Xing continued on with a smile.

The Emperor had definitely not forgotten the past glory of her ant painting, but still, he watched her work with avid interest and an adoring smile. But then as her painting started to come to life, his smile started to go through different phases until it was just a confused frown.

{...Could that really a face?... A pot maybe? But not a - No, she said it was a portrait of herself...So this is her? Truly?...}

”Done!” Lei Xing finally said after a while longer. She then held up her work for the Emperor with a proud smile, ”What do you think?”

The Emperor gave her a weak half-smile and scrutinized her ”portrait”.

It was an odd piece with a large round face, big round eyes that took up half the face with only three eyelashes at the top. There was an odd-looking squiggly line that he assumed was a nose and then a little flat line as the mouth. Then there was a helmet looking thing at the top which he assumed was hair. The crowning jewel of this masterpiece were the different shaped dots scattered around the face.

”Emperor~...Your majesty?” Lei Xing sweetly called and then she cleared her throat, ”You seem to be frozen in joy~” She added with a snicker.

The Emperor then realized that she was playing with him and narrowed his eyes at her. Then snorted, he actually could not believe that he was seriously contemplating how a person could actually look like this.

”What's funny? I really looked like this, I had warts all over too...” Lei Xing then sighed and pat the Emperor's shoulder, ”Actually, this might come as a much bigger shock but since we're being honest with each other now. I have to tell you that...I was actually an old woman...” Lei Xing sincerely said.

”An old woman?” The Emperor exclaimed with wide eyes as he blinked at her. He suspected that she was playing again, but her expression was so serious, that he could not simply dismiss it as a joke, ”Truly?”

Lei Xing nodded and the Emperor knit his brows in thought as he stared at her.

Lei Xing scrutinized him and then sighed as she gave him reassuring pat his shoulders, ”Ahh, poor young man. It's too bad for you if you fell in love with this beautiful face but don't worry, I will understand it if you are unable to get past the age barrier~...”

The Emperor's knit eyebrows tightened and Lei Xing finally could not help bursting into laughter. This was fun for her, he was really too easy...It was adorable.

The Emperor let out a sigh of relief as he grabbed her face and squished it, ”Xing er', my feelings for you have nothing to do with your body. I -”

Lei Xing snorted, ”Not even if I'm an old woman?”

The Emperor hesitated for a bit and then said, ”I would still love and respect you...but...” He paused and knit his brows, trying to think of the best words to explain to her.

”But?” Lei Xing asked narrowing her eyes at him. The Emperor frowned and Lei Xing chuckled and removed his hands from her face, ”I'm just joking, I was definitely not an old woman. But I am older than you though, so you should still show me respect as an elder~”

The Emperor relaxed again and then smilingly went, ”Oh? And how old is this elder?”

Lei Xing squinted at him, ”Fifty. Okay, just twenty-five, truthfully... As for how I looked, Hmm...I'm not sure how to describe features. But let me try, my chin wasn't this pointed, I had higher cheekbones, the nose was a bit - Hm, I don't know. I guess my face was a bit rounder, my hair was way shorter, easier to maintain, about here...?” Lei Xing said touching her shoulder.

”See, I'm horrible at this...Ah, the eyes are the same. It's uncanny but they really are the same, they look and feel the same...” Lei Xing said hugging the Emperor and leaning on his chest with a sigh.

”I love looking at your eyes, they are definitely your best feature. Although you avert them a bit too much.” The Emperor smilingly said, narrowing his eyes at her.

Lei Xing narrowed her eyes back at him, ”Well then, I'll try to look at you more often.”

”I expect that~” The Emperor said and Lei Xing laughed and then hugged his waist and leaned on his chest.

The Emperor let out a happy sigh as he hugged her back. After a while, he hesitantly asked, ”Xing er', did you -...were you...married?” She had spoken of parents and siblings, but nothing about a spouse, and knowing her age now, she should have been married already.

Lei Xing lightly snorted, ”No, was not interested.”