Chapter 683 - Beautiful Emperor. (1/2)

After Xinyi and Xie Rouxi left the office, Xie Ming's face turned pale as her body started to feel weaker by every moment. She was feeling tired, not sure whether it was because of exhaustion or the effect of those memories of Xie Ming.

Grandfather Su told her to take a day rest and go home seeing her condition and said to not worry about her appointments and that he will check up on her patients himself. She has been working without any break in the past few days. She deserves a day's rest at least.

She agreed and packed up her bag to leave the hospital. What can she say? She is not in the right mind herself.

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Ji Dynasty.

After the market visit that day, Ji Cheng was enraged and had gathered all the vendors who were appointed to sell the items made by the consorts. She doesn't know what happened to that vendor who was sent to the dungeon that day because Ji Cheng didn't tell her anything about it.

And about other vendors, he checked everyone's background and their reputation in the market himself and punished them a great deal who were found selling the items at the higher prices than the prices set by her and Jia Shi.

The other ministers argued that Zhao Ming's idea of selling the items made by the consorts is useless and only increases the work rather than helping the harem in any way. However, ignoring their wasted opinions, Ji Cheng handled this matter by creating a team who will check the workings of these stalls and will submit a monthly report to Zhao Ming.

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In the chamber, Zhao Ming was looking at the account book given by Wen Ru. Since she had decided to help him in checking the account books, she checks them from time to time. Although she hasn't started producing items to sell in his shop because of the lack of time she has, she was still helping him to maintain his account books.

She already had dinner without Ji Cheng since he was working in his study. While checking the doc.u.ments, she stopped and zoned out while staring at the door.

So much time has passed but she still couldn't find any clue.

'Sigh. How could I find that hairpin now? I have checked Zhao Ming's room or everywhere where that hairpin could be. It's nowhere to be found.'

Just as she was busy in her thoughts, Ji Cheng pushed open the door and entered the chamber. He smiled seeing Zhao Ming looking at him but later realized that she was just staring at the door and didn't even sense his presence in the room.

He shook his head and walked to her. She was looking at the door and looked like she was thinking about something.

He pursed her lips and leaned down and gave her a quick peck on her lips.

” Oh!” Zhao Ming was startled when he gave her a peck which woke her up. She blushed and covered her lips with the back of her hand as she asked, ” Ah, what are you doing? When did you come?”

He raised his brows and sat beside her. He sighed and asked, ” What happened? Why are you looking so lost?”

” Me? Nothing, I was just...a little tired.” She replied half-heartedly. She was indeed tired.

These days, she not only has to manage the harem but also has to focus on her physical training and meditation as well. Along with that, she has to think about that dream, which she hasn't got for more than a month.

He looked at her and rubbed her hair. ” You should take it easy. You're working too hard these days. How can an Empress be so busy more than an Emperor? You should relax and not worry about harem matters so much.”.

”Ask for my help if something is troubling you.”

She smiled hearing his words. How can he say such heart fluttering words with his straight expressions?

Does he even know how handsome he looked while saying those words nonchalantly?

She grinned and placed the doc.u.ments aside and leaned in to give him a peck on his cheeks, but he turned his face and her lips landed on his lips. She was startled but the next moment, she was pulled by him as he made her sit on his lap.

He held her face between his palms and sealed her lips with his as he deepened the kiss, invading her mouth. She beamed while kissing and wrapped her arms around his neck, to make her balance and let him kiss her to his heart content.