Chapter 192 - New Day

Lei Xing eventually stopped and just let him hold her hand as she pouted and glared at him. The Emperor's diminished, he gently caressed her hand then seriously asked, "If you don't have such intentions, why do you think I will?"

Lei Xing blinked and stared at him with raised eyebrows, then she slightly knit her brows and lowered her eyes as she quietly said, "You can't say about the future...I just wanted it for the future." 

The Emperor scrutinized her for a bit and then sighed, "Xing er', you're not someone to give your feelings out to someone lightly..." When she glanced up at him, he narrowed her eyes with a smile and added, "I have experienced that." Lei Xing flushed and embarrassedly lowered her head again.

The Emperor snorted and pat her head and then lowered his hand to her cheek and raised her head and said, "Neither am I. In this life, you are the first woman, no, person, the only person that I have ever come to love..."

Lei Xing blinked at him for a bit, and then absentmindedly removed her hand on the blanket, letting fall, she placed on his hand on her face and weakly smiled as she said, "I believe you...but I just want you to know...that wh-if, IF" She stressed when she saw him starting to frown, her smile warmed and lightly stroked the back of his hand and continued, "If...if you ever come to feel for someone else, all you have to do is tell me and I will leave you be, just know that." Tears streaked down her face as she said that but yet she just smiled at him.

{...I will never cling...Never...}

The Emperor held her face in both his hands and wiped her tears with his thumbs and said, "There will never be another, know that." Lei Xing's smile widened but he could still see the hesitation in her eyes. He leaned down and gave her a light kiss and smiled at her as he caressed her face, she was no longer crying...but she still looked so hurt to him. 

The Emperor did not know what to do to ease her fears and worry. To his surprise, Lei Xing suddenly held onto his face with both her hands as well and kissed him. Then she moved back and caressed his face and said, "Stop thinking." And then she kissed him again, this time even slipping tongue in and deepening the kiss. Her hands moved from his face to wrap around his neck as she pulled him down to the bed. 

{...Let's not think...}

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"Wake up...Wake up..." The Emperor heard a soft voice saying and felt someone poking his face and nudging him. He smiled and took hold of Lei Xing's hand and kissed it and opened his eyes to see Lei Xing looking up at him from his shoulder, still snuggled against him. She was smiling at him and her eyes were clear.

The Emperor rolled her on her back and kissed her lips, but before he could deepen the kiss, Lei Xing pushed him back with a little chuckle and informed, "They're waiting for you..." The Emperor ignored that and leaned back down and caught her lips again. Lei Xing smiled and eagerly kissed him back and even brought a hand and caressed his face.  

But before they could fully indulge in their reigniting passion, Eunuch Li's voice carried in from outside, "Your majesty, you need to get ready to attend for Court."

The kissing duo stopped and Lei snorted and stroked his face and smilingly said, "It seems they got impatient and went to find Eunuch Li. You should go before they burst in here to drag you off." Another Eunuch had been calling for him for a while now and it was his call that woke Lei Xing. But then that one stopped for a few minutes and now Eunuch Li was here, and she reasoned they probably went to find him to come to handle his Emperor when neither of the room's inhabitants responded. 

The Emperor chuckled and kissed her cheek and then her ear and nuzzled into her hair. He did not want to leave. He kissed his way back to her smiling lips again when Eunuch Li again called, "Your majesty..." The Emperor groaned in annoyance and Lei Xing snickered and then gave him a quick kiss and then patted his cheek and said, "Go on." 

"Your majesty, time is short..." Eunuch Li shouted in again.

The Emperor glanced in the general direction of his voice with an expression that looked to Lei Xing like a pout. She blinked at him with raised eyebrows, it was an expression she had never seen on him before and it was quite amusing, hilarious and adorable. She pursed her lips in an attempt to stifle her laughter, but a snort managed to escape. 

The Emperor turned his attention back to her and narrowed his eyes, "You seem to be happy with me leaving..." And it looked like his pouting intensified, Lei Xing almost broke into laughter but managed to mask it by clearing her throat and she seriously said, "Not at all." She gave him a quick kiss and smiled and said, "I'd miss the bed too..."

The Emperor pursed his lips. He obviously did not care about the bed and she knew that. She was obviously making fun of him. But looking at her smiling at him, he could not even muster up an ounce of annoyance. He kissed her again and then finally got up with a sigh as Lei Xing snorted and wrapped herself in the blanket.

She shyly watched him from the bed as he went to put on a robe. She had obviously seen and felt him n.a.k.e.d the night before, but seeing him like this was odd, and she turned red as a bashful smile spread across her face, but even then she did not look away.

{...Ah, it seems I am a closet pervert...and why is that not a surprise? haha...ha (⁄⁄>⁄▽⁄

When the Emperor turned back to the bed, Lei Xing instantly covered her face with the blanket. 

{...You know what's worse than being a pervert.? Getting caught as a PERVERT!...}

The Emperor walked over with a happy smile and fished her head out of the blanket to see her squeezing her eyes shut. He laughed and then kissed her forehead and said, "Go back to sleep." She nodded with her eyes still squeezed shut, she looked so adorable and funny. He snorted and gave her another quick kiss on the lips and then finally left.

Lei Xing watched him as he walked off with a smile and then let out a sigh.

{...This feels quite nice...}

As the doors closed behind him, the Emperor glanced back and stared at the closed doors and smiled to himself. 

Eunuch Li cleared his throat and with a happy smile on his face said, "Your majesty, you should hurry..."

The Emperor narrowed his eyes at Eunuch Li and then walked off still with a smile on his face.

{...Today is a good day...and it will be a great one...}