WASS – Chapter 118

Okay, so they opened the door to a new world. I’m very sorry for the lateness, this chapter is just a little bit longer than usual but the biggest frustration is from how many references I have to do. The internet slang, the geographic thing (looking at you stone), the title (I got Korean queen when searching for it), and the poems. Those poems….my god, first it’s a drama title (Song of Youth, 2020), then the author (Ouyang Xiu), then the actual poem (Jade Tower in Spring) but then no better translation for them. Frustration is real in this chapter. In the end, I just make them myself so they may not sound nice.

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Chapter 118 – Never Thought That

Translated by HaruOngy at Geniusly Plain (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator’s hard work. Don’t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase and translator!)

Female warrior Mei was an opinionated person.

Especially when she believed the matter was very worth doing, any obstacles would become the push to make her fly toward completing it.

For example, on a particular one night, to be exact before the official announcement of the result of the empress selection.

Mei Qian Deng in red clothes sat in front of Chu Xun.

Chu Xun was a little alarmed, “Why do you wear so pretty today?”

“The tiger’s claw flowers are blooming soon, so I wish to suit the setting.”

Chu Xun sipped the wine in the cup, reflecting on Mei Qian Deng’s reason. He had the feeling it was a bit far-fetched but since his wife was happy, then everything she said would be right.

He was on tenterhooks as he asked, “Why do you have the interest to drink wine and enjoy the moon with zhen suddenly?”

“Senior Official Song said I’m someone who can’t understand the love affairs. I just want to face the moonlight and spring breeze to ask for some teaching.”

Chu Xun emptied the wine cup in his hand. Click, click[1]. How come wife is becoming more and more profound……

Still, he was very happy, liquor failed to intoxicate yet one intoxicated oneself[2]. “Senior Official Song said it well, you can’t read the love mood. If you can, zhen will have a son already many years ago!”

Mei Qian Deng was not angry, her face was even plastered with a smile. She calmly replied, “Your Majesty don’t seem to be that different from me.”

“……right.”

Mei Qian Deng added some dishes into Chu Xun’s bowl and seriously asked him, “Your Majesty, do you ever think about this, if from the start I’m someone who always hide at the back waiting for someone else to protect me, will you look at me differently?”

Chu Xun went silent.

If she was not the unconventional Mei Qian Deng who always anger him so much he would stomp his feet yet unable to retort.

If she was not the always strive to become stronger Mei Qian Deng, protecting him all the times so he wouldn’t be injured, giving him a sense of security.

If she was not the treating sincerely Mei Qian Deng, never try to curry him due to his status, coveting fame and wealth. So much so that she used all her fame and wealth in exchange for a simple peace and worry-free.

“Zhen just like the current you, there is no if.”

Even if she didn’t know how to say sweet words and ask for a coaxing, even if she dared to kick him off the bed, even if she had no female awareness, he still liked this Mei Qian Deng.

Mei Qian Deng didn’t continue the topic. She turned her head and watched the swaying trees in the wind. Then, she hooked her lips and poured another cup for Chu Xun, “Your Majesty, do you want me to bring you fly to the rooftop to see the stars?”

“Alright, alright!”

……

Chu Xun obviously remembered he was watching the stars. Twinkle, twinkle little stars[3], yet why in the next moment the heaven and earth turned over.

By the time he rubbed his throbbing head as he woke up from the emperor bed with his whole body aching, it was already near noon. Chu Xun by reflex slapped his thigh: This is bad! I missed the morning court! After a further thought, oh, it’s a rest day today. Hence, he foolishly sat on the bed to calm down. Broken, odd pieces of enchanting scenes from last night played in his mind.

It seemed like a lewd dream?

“Xiao Jing Zi!” Chu Xun anxiously shouted with his dry throat.

Xiao Jing Zi instantly flew inside from outside the door. “Your Majesty, you’re awake!”

“Where is Mei Qian Deng?”

“Your Majesty, did you forget? Young Miss Mei got your verbal decree to let Millionaire Qian bring enormous sum of money to redeem that Young Miss Qian. She already took the Qian family’s ship, bringing along Fourth Miss Di’s group of Di soldiers and sailed in the night.”

Your mom. He knew Mei Qian Deng last night was weird!

Chu Xun was angry yet he had nowhere to release it.

Mo Biao then jumped down from the roof beam and passed a letter to Chu Xun. “Your Majesty, this is the letter Young Miss Mei told me to pass it to you.”

Chu Xun was not in the hurry to open the letter. He asked Mo Biao instead, “Last night, you remained in here?”

Mo Biao nodded.

“Did Mei Qian Deng……”

Mo Biao cut in, “Yes, Your Majesty. Young Miss Mei last night put ** into the wine and then slept you.”

Chu Xun’s blood inside his abdomen was churning, he felt he received a too strong internal injury, he was about to vomit blood!

On the other side, Mo Biao and Xiao Jing Zi watched Chu Xun hitting his chest on the bed, then he covered his mouth and retched twice. It was an extremely lamenting expression.

Mo Biao had always been with big guts, “It can’t be that Your Majesty don’t remember anything?”

He remembered, just not very clearly.

That was his first night!

Such a precious one!

Chu Xun stared at Mo Biao. Mo Biao assumed Chu Xun was about to flare up, just as she about to escape she was stopped by Chu Xun’s call, “You have seen all of it right? Tell zhen the details.”

Your Majesty! I’m still an unmarried girl, to describe that sort of thing to a man, it’s not very appropriate.

En?!

Under Chu Xun’s abuse of power, Mo Biao started to recount from when Mei Qian Deng brought the mumbling Chu Xun back into the room, she mentioned how female warrior Mei boldly stripped Chu Xun of his clothes, how she studied Chu Xun’s little chicken for quite some time, how she conspired and opened the great door to the new world as well as how Chu Xun awakened his male instinct and counterattacked Mei Qian Deng. The back and fro was enough to break the bed.

“Your Majesty, although you’re not good enough for first time, ending it in short time, you regained your masculinity quickly and did female warrior Mei three hundred rounds!”

“Only three hundred? Those men in the books can easily do one thousand……”

Mo Biao’s eyes twitched. She believed for the emperor to worry about how many draws he did now was really too late. Still, she comforted him as always, “Your Majesty, I’m just giving an imaginary number. After all, looking at this sort of thing too long will easily grow sty. For the later part, I only listened without watching.”

Chu Xun rolled his eyes at Mo Biao. He hastily turned over the bed, removing the blanket, as expected there was a small bloodstain on the black silk bed. It proved that bed scene last night was not just a lewd dream.

“Go and summon Senior Official Song for zhen!”

“Yes…..”

He didn’t see Senior Official Song first, instead it was King Lin Xian who insisted on staying inside the palace. Hearing some gossips, he brought along the lantern girl and joined in the fun.

King Lin Xian was direct, “Your Majesty’s beloved one run away?”

The lantern girl added hail to the snow, “I heard Your Majesty finally get to hug a beauty. Yet, you actually let the beauty able to get down from the bed right after the getting favoured, your skill is still imperfect!”

“……”

Chu Xun was so irritated he didn’t know what to say, he wished to just chase them out. However, thinking how the total of their age was that big, respecting the elders was a noble morality.

Chu Xun decided to ignore them.

Yet, King Lin Xian and the lantern girl didn’t think of themselves as the elders.

They were aiming for the treasures inside the Ming Jue Palace.

At once, the lantern girl continued the conversation, “Your Majesty, you have to believe me. I can send you some uncirculated secret techniques in bedroom.”

Chu Xun’s eyeballs turned about, holding himself he continued to ignore them.

King Lin Xian walked around the Ming Jue Palace. He stopped before the sea agarwood on the tray in front of the big face mirror. He leisurely said, “A thousand years sea agarwood, it’s a good item.”

Ever since he knew Yu Qing Ruo had bad intentions, Chu Xun was very furious so he never touch the sea agarwood yet he was unwilling to throw it away.

Now that he heard King Lin Xian’s praise, he secretly started to regain interest of this godly face care product.

Then……should he not waste the natural resources recklessly in the future?

“The sea agarwood is an extreme yin product, suitable for girls’ usage. Men if use it too long will have renal deficiency. Your Majesty likes to be pretty but you have to take care of your body too.” King Lin Xian indistinctly finished his words, his intention was too deep.

Chu Xun who had bid farewell to being a little virgin boy blackened his face after hearing him.

“Why don’t Your Majesty send it to this King? This King doesn’t approach female charms, so there is no worry of renal weakness.” Without waiting for Chu Xun’s approval, King Lin Xian swiftly took the sea agarwood, flinging away the water on it, he openly put the item into his own chest pocket.

At the same time, Senior Official Song entered. The first thing he saw was his own emperor being bullied by these two old bastards. A sense of protecting his liege suddenly surfaced, he rushed forward and fiercely chased those two out. Turning back, he soothed Chu Xun a few words before asking, “Your Majesty, what trouble did Little Deng cause again?”

Hence, Chu Xun took out the letter Mei Qian Deng left and told what she did and said last night to Senior Official Song.

Senior Official Song clicked his tongue, only lacking of having melon seeds while watching a good snow.

Senior Official Song approached Chu Xun and asked first, “Your Majesty, how does it feel to be forced by someone else?”

Chu Xun’s whole face blushed, he was more embarrassed than a young lady, staring at Senior Official Song a few times, he replied truthfully, “I don’t remember the details, but overall it’s very pleasurable.”

Aiyo, zhen’s poor first time……

“Why don’t zhen personally chase her back?”

Only to receive a smirk from Senior Official Song, “Your Majesty, you know it yourself that it is an unrealistic idea.” Else, Chu Xun would have long chase after her instead of resentfully grumbling while sitting in here. Look at Chu Xun, his left side of face was written with “lonely, hollow, disappointed” while his right side of face was written with “roll about, begging for a comfort”.

A monarch of a nation, if he did this repeatedly he would be an incapable ruler.

Senior Official Song pointed at the letter Mei Qian Deng left behind, in his heart he could grasp her plan of sailing into the sea. “Little Deng has always been an obedient and well-behaved child. Since she dare to go, then it is something she believed she must do. Your Majesty should understand her temper more than this laofu.”

The first line in the letter: Your Majesty, please forgive me, I have one uncontrollable desire which is my too strong sense of protecting.

Senior Official Song deeply thought that Mei Qian Deng’s words were very accurate. He gave Chu Xun a thorough analysis, “If Little Deng’s sense of protecting has 100 points, then one point is for the morality in jianghu as well as kittens, puppies, flowers and grasses. The remaining 99 points are like a human pyramid for Your Majesty. What she meant here, according to what laofu understand from this is that since Po Ye female prince dared to bully her people, she wants to make Yu Qing Ruo take the consequences.”

The second line in the letter: After some thoughts, I carried out this bad plan, I don’t know if giving my heart will be able to reduce some of Your Majesty’s anger.

Senior Official Song continued analysing, “In the past laofu gave Little Deng see so many lewd paintings yet she never blush nor skip heartbeat. She was abnormally calm yet she can think of such an amorous plan last night. Your Majesty, think about this. She can just make you drunk and left you on the bed and still can smoothly sail into the sea, isn’t she? The way she explained here is too particular. It’s clear she is just making up excuse to sleep you.”

Chu Xun was enlightened. Right! Mei Qian Deng dislike explaining for herself, this was indeed strange.

He was joyful and gave Senior Official Song a worship look. It was still old ginger spicier[4], instantly seeing through Mei Qian Deng.

The third line in the letter: Your Majesty don’t miss me, will return with the change of seasons.”

Chu Xun raced to answer first, “Actually Mei Qian Deng wants zhen to remember her daily, like the Apah Rock[5] counting the days for her return!”

Senior Official Song gave him a ‘the boy is worth teaching’ look.

“Your Majesty, you should take this opportunity to temper your build. When Little Deng returns, you can slowly punish her.”

Right! Just like this then!

Chu Xun instantly found the strength to continue the days.

At noon, an emperor decree was quickly sent out of the imperial palace, announcing to everyone: Appointing nee Mei as the Empress, conferred as the Loving and Favoured Empress[6] (Empress Ci Shun). Since the Empress is travelling the eastern sea right now, to work on the Great Chu’s maritime, the day she return will be the day of the grand marriage.

Chu Xun personally drafted the imperial decree so he was a bit tired. He went to the inner corner of the Imperial Study where the teapoy was usually prepared for Mei Qian Deng and sat down. There were still some books Mei Qian Deng had yet to finish reading left on the teapoy. Chu Xun simply turned a few pages to see, the book on the top was an anthology of poetry and lyrics.

The page he coincidently turned had this recorded:

Planning to tell the date of return before the goblet, before telling the departing beauty tragically accepts. There are naturally infatuated one in life, only hate can’t be like wind and moon.

The farewell song has no more new verse, a verse can teach heart a small knot. To wait and watch the peonies in Luoyang, only then easier to accept the parting of the spring.[7]

Chu Xun frowned, he threw that anthology of poems and lyrics far away with a jeer.

What’s with these grieving poems?!

[1] Sounds made from clicking his tongue.

[2] An idiom. Means the result is not due to what the things you have make you, but what you do with the things you have.

[3] I really thought he’s about to sing Twinkle Little Star there.

[4] Idiom. The older the ginger, the spicier it gets. Means, the older, the wiser.

[5] Literally the stone gazing out for his wife. A twisted version of the Amah Rock in Hong Kong, because ‘amah’ refers to mother or wife so ‘apah’ for father or husband. Note that ‘apah’ is kind of how you call your father in Hokkien.

[6] Her title is the same as Queen Jeonghyeon’s title before her husband becomes the 9^th Joseon King (or at least according to what I found).

[7] Poem verses by Ouyang Xiu for the Jade Tower in Spring series. It is a series of poems by various poets from Song and Tang dynasties.

Translated by HaruOngy at Geniusly Plain (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator’s hard work. Don’t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase and translator!)

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