In Concubine Chu Palace, she is pacing back and forward inside her room. Apparently, he left yesterday and leaves messages to Yu Hu that he will back in the morning. She could not sleep last night and awake in the morning to take a floral bath and make up to meet with her old love flame. She even did not have any appetite to swallow her early breakfast this morning.

Concubine Chu makes sure to dismiss all her eunuch and maid in her palace and leaves only Yu Hu alone. She makes sure to have a time alone with Li Fang Min. Yu Hu knows her missus well enough to not trifle with her decision.

Li Fang Min is arriving at her Palace when Yu Hu is escorting him to be inside the palace and close the door. Yu Hu is guarding the door to her residence and make sure there is no one peeking into inside her missus palace.

"Brother Li… what are you doing again in here?" Concubine Chu is looking worriedly to him.

"If I say that I am missing you, do you believe me?" he steps forward and holding her hand.

"But I am belonging to the emperor now. My father sold me to my own uncle and my uncle uses me as his pawn for the emperor. I wishes I had the courage back then to run away for our love," Concubine Chu is looking at her.

"Let's run away and we will live as farmer in the secluded mountain… no one will know about the place," Li Fang Min is holding her hand and pull her inside his arm to hug her.

"I cannot… the Emperor will kill both of our family. I cannot sacrifice your family, brother Li…"

"I do not care about it… Let's go…" Li Fang Min is holding her hand and want them to go when she stops him and kiss his lips briefly before step back with blushing face.

"I am sorry, brother Li…"

Li Fang Min walks toward her and hold her face before exploring inside her mouth. He does not hold back and push her into her bed. Concubine Chu is putting her hand and taking off his clothes before enjoying all his shower of kiss.

The curtain on her bed falls down in the time when the only voice come out from both of them only moans and groan. Concubine Chu clutches her nail to his shoulder to brace the most excruciating sin, she ever done in her life. She did not refuse and want to burn inside the hell as the return for all this love from brother Li. Yu Hu faces blooming red to hear their voice and moaning from inside their residence. At least, no one is working at the moment in Concubine Chu palace.

Concubine Chu is enjoying her time with brother Li inside her bed. She feels so good to enjoy the love when she deprives of it inside the cold palace. She circles her finger on his broad chest after their love's activity.

"Yi… I will take you out from this place. I could not believe to have your first time; it means that the emperor never touches you?" Li Fang Min is pulling her closer to his body.

"Brother Li, how about you become the head eunuch in my palace? I will arrange it with the department of Eunuch to assign you under me," Chu Yi is rolling her naked body on top of his body.

"You have to do it. You are mine only and I can take care of you. You are not allowed to serve that stupid man in his bed," Fan Min is pinching her nose to tease her.

"Do not worry as he never touches anyone despite the scheme and the trap… Maybe he loves to touch himself or those eunuch of him. No girl inside this palace wall can entice his interest. I think as long as I am becoming the queen. It will be enough to shut the mouth of my cousin and my uncle. We still can live as husband and wife under his stupid nose," Chu Yi is mocking him as the emperor. Fang Min rolls her to be under his body and kiss her body again and again. They do not regret their sin for their love.

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Ni Qing finishes her late breakfast when she changes to the mourning clothes. She just finishes reviewing the letter from Mr Zhao from Xiao Nie before release the dove to send a quick message to Lin Yue. Ni Qing is looking around the palace of the emperor where all the artefact and the best of furniture in the country, even the food is looking extravagance. She knows that Jin Yu is inside the morning court. He really leaves kissing mark on her neck. This time, she styles her hair to cover her left neck.

She arrives to the empress palace where the decoration of mourning is all over the palace. She can see her mother pale face and her father with her brother. Jin Yu must excuse her father to be in the mourning period during her sister death. However, her mother piercing eyes toward her when she steps into her sister hall residence. She lights the incest stick and bow to her sister coffin and offering table before putting it on the offering table.

"Where were you?" Madame Ni did not spare her any longer before interrogating her.

"I was with the royal highness emperor to discuss the plan on the border," Ni Qing is answering her mother whilst Madame Ni is staring sharply at Ni Qing from the top to the bottom.

A loud crisp sound comes out from the loud slap on her white cheek from the hand of Madame Ni. She almost fell down on the floor before a sturdy arm catches her from the back. Everyone inside the mourning hall is kneeling down to see the person who catching Ni Qing from the fall.