Chapter 16 (1/2)

Chapter 16

h.e.l.lo!  Your Majesty

Mo Qi Qi sleeps that day and only wake up after a while.  It’s weird that those concubines didn’t come today to complain about Yang Shi Han.  That’s why she gets to sleep in.  Those concubines always comes to her place everyday because of Yang Shi Han and wish that she, this empress can help them; they really take her as a fool.

She sits up and stretches, how comfortable.  She had a hot bath after she got back last night, and after that, drank ginger tea, so she didn’t fall ill.  Or else…. Such a cold heavy rain, not falling ill will be weird! Even though it is already spring, the temperature at night is still so cold!

“Your Ladyship, you are awake,” Ban Xiang said as she walk in.

“En!  Morning!” Mo Qi Qi put her quilt away and gets off the bed, happily greeting Ban Xiang. She sits in front of the dressing table, wonderingly asking, “Is today a special day?  Why didn’t those concubines come to greet me in the morning?”

Ban Xiang takes a comb and help her mistress comb her hair, “Your Ladyship, I heard the emperor is sick.  All the concubines are worried sick so they went to Yu Jing Palace to ask about him.  They won’t have the mind to greet Your Ladyship.”

“Sick?  What sickness?  Will it kill him?” Mo Qi Qi asks, taking in delight of other’s suffering.  Is this what they call karma?  He didn’t get to kill her last night, so he got sick instead?

“Your Ladyship, don’t speak nonsense.  If others heard you, you will be in trouble.  I heard the emperor is suffering from fever, would you like to tend for him?”

“Me?  Tend for him?  Dream on!  It’s just a cold, such a big deal over nothing.  It’s not even some incurable disease.”

Ban Xiang helplessly shakes her head.

After eating breakfast, Mo Qi Qi continues studying the map to find the way to go back, she mumbles to herself: “How can I find the way to travel back to my time?”

Ban Xiang, realizing that she really has no intention to visit the emperor, opens her mouth once again: “Your Ladyship, you really won’t go to see the emperor?  All the concubines already went there, if you don’t, it will not be too appropriate.”

“What propriety?  Colds are really infectious, don’t you know that?  What if I got infected by him?  Not going!” Mo Qi Qi rejects it cold, continuing to a.n.a.lyze the map.  But her heart cannot calm down: If she don’t go, will Jun Qian Che suspect that she already knows he plans to kill her?  If so, will he take advantage of this illness to place a non-existent fault on her head?  No!  She must not let him find an excuse to get rid of her!