Where Fate Leads - Chapter 6 Your Mistake And My Mistake

Zian Shun has been visiting me for a while now because he has taken the place of being Chen Hui’s Mura teacher. This gave me a lot of time to cultivate new medicine. Though it is Chen Hui’s father who is visiting, I couldn’t help but have the feeling to avoid him because of what he had done.

Before, I believed that I could accept him if he could accept me, but in truth, I really felt uncomfortable with his presence, yet he was the one who was making my baby smiling. Because of this thought, it is time I talk to him to try and get comfortable with his presence beside his domineering aura.

“Your Highness,” I called out, he turned around and walked to me pausing in the middle of his teaching.

“Do you need something?” he asked. I nodded, “Can we go talk somewhere else though?” he nodded as I lead him to the bamboo garden in the back, I gestured him to sit on the chair as I poured both of us tea and decorated it with a petal from a cherry blossom. Making sure that no one had followed us, I tried to find the presence of others before beginning.

“Five years ago”, I began, I looked up to him as he put down his cup knowing where I was leading this talk, “five years ago, was when it happened. Five years is very long, but I still can not forget it and even though you are high status, not just high status but loyalty! I just can’t seem to move on, because our son was born from our mistake. I guess you know what your mistake is since you have apologized, but my mistake was being there at the day and time. That year I was supposed to get married, but once I got married it would be like I was throwing my youth away. So, I decided to go out one last time and act like a child, but I left my territory that was why I was there picking flowers when I suddenly met you. Do you care to tell as to what had happened that day leading to everything else.”

He let out a sigh as if he didn’t want to talk about it, but he still spoke, “Though I was next in line for the throne, my cousin Bei Wang was too, and I was stupid that day and had followed him and had tea with him. He had drugged me with aphrodisiac which he had put into my drink. He didn’t take me home afterward and so I guess that was how we met. I wasn’t thinking, my hormones were too strong and my mind had just left me and I truly am sorry for what I had done, I even ruined your wedding and your relationship with your family.” I stood up as he said this, startling him.

“Don’t worry about the wedding, I didn’t even want to get married, I am sad that I now don’t have any place in my family, but I am thankful for Chen Hui and thankful for that day because I didn’t have to marry out of force. Plus,” I whispered, “he was having a scandal with my older sister.” and then I talked out loud again, “So I should be thanking you because of your mistake, I was able to escape something terrible. Also, thank you for teaching our son. Though I have the power of Heaven and the Underworld, I can’t even use it to the fullest without falling weak.” I said thanking him with a bow. After we had drunk the last sip of tea I put the cups away and took him back to Chen Hui who was still practicing. I let Zian Shun go back to Chen Hui as I stopped cultivating and watched from behind as he taught and my son learned.

The uncomfortable aura around the two of us had now disappeared, but just because it disappeared, that didn’t mean that we would become a love-dovey father and mother for Chen Hui. It was after a while when I became tired of watching and had walked back into the house. After resting on my bed and deciding to wake up after a short nap, both Chen Hui and Zian SHun came running into the bedroom, taking both sides of the bed and blocking me in between their body.

“Excuse me?” I questioned, Zian SHun wrapped his arms around me and Chen Hui, pulling us together. Chen Hui let out a giggle when he saw my face flush. I didn’t question anymore, and as much as I wanted to scold them for coming in and disturbing my nap, I didn’t.

After a while of just laying there, both males had fallen asleep. I guess it was because they were training. I decided since I did get on the bed to take a nap, that I would get comfortable inside the arms of Zian Shun.

“Just for today”, I sigh.