The next day.
When Huo Mingyan woke up, Lu Ying had already gone to court.
Huo Mingxu came over to find her, winking mischievously: "Sister, last night you and brother-in-law…"
Huo Mingyan recalled the intimacy of last night, her eyebrows tinged with a faint blush.
"I had thought his feelings for Miss Shen ran deep, even preparing myself for the possibility that he wouldn't touch me." She put on her earrings. "But it seems that his affection for Miss Shen is fleeting, like morning dew. Brother, his mind is set on the nation, unyielding to worldly passion. He will become the most enlightened ruler in centuries. I want… I want to stand alongside him and be written into the annals of history."
Huo Mingyan looked at herself in the bronze mirror.
After the wedding night, a woman sheds the shyness of girlhood, her apricot-shaped eyes brimming with ambition and yearning.
She lacked exceptional beauty, but she could embody unparalleled virtue and dignity.
