Chapter 69 - The Sincere Love Confession

Ni Shi mother is helping her daughter to go to the kitchen with her maid. She puts her to sit down on the chair in the corner of the kitchen. She is cooking all the dishes with the help from the maid. She is bribing the kitchen maid to leave them alone. Anyway, Ni Shi never step her foot in the kitchen which will make the food worse.

Ni Shi mother is making some of her speciality dishes for all of them tonight. She is quite a stellar woman in the kitchen and even Ni Qing is learning from her some of the technique in the kitchen.

Ni Qing is busy to prepare her late mother offering table with Xiao Nie and eunuch Wang in her private room. Meanwhile, Jin Yu is sitting on the table while looking at his wife meticulous job for the offering.

She is arranging all sort of comfort and modest food in front of the wooden tablet on the table and her mother picture on the wall. She is putting some camellia flower on the table. Ni Qing is really happy to see the memorial table ready for her to introduce her husband.

"Your highness, are you going to meet with my mother?" Ni Qing is asking her husband politely. Jin Yu does not reply but he walks closer toward Ni Qing in front of the ceremonial table.

Eunuch Wang is lightning the incense stick for them before putting the biggest stick on the table. They are bowing three time with the incense stick on their both hand and putting it on the small pot for the incense stick to burn. Ni Qing is opening her stack of rare wine to see half of it empty. She is getting mad that someone take out and drink her wine collection. She holds it inside her heart and take out her mother favourite wine. She pours it on the small cup before throwing it to the ground in front of her mother picture.

"Mother, I am bringing your son-in-law. He is not Lin Yue, but he is having the same handsome and well build body. However, he is short tempered… I hope you will bless us on our marriage journey…" Ni Qing is informing her mother with her tears wheeled on her eyes.

"Mother… My name is Jin Yu and I am the legal and only husband in this life and future. I will take care of her and make sure she will not need to have a hard life ahead. I will love her whole heartly until death separate us. Please bless our marriage journey from the afterlife and look after us," Jin Yu is bowing and lower himself as her son-in-law and not as the emperor.

Ni Qing is turning her head toward her husband with awe. This is the first time to hear his sincere love confession toward Ni Qing. She does not care and launch herself to his arm. She is starting to fall for his love.

they are finishing the memorial ceremony and sit down in the common room area in her room which separate her study and her bedroom and bathroom. Xiao Nie is serving the tea to them with a plate of dessert for their afternoon tea.

"You are going back to the Palace and I will sleep in this room for three days," Ni Qing is walking to the alcohol chest before taking one of the rarest peach flower wines. She is still angry and want to find the culprit for the lost of her wine collection. There are only few people who know the exact location of her wine collection.

"What are you thinking about? I am staying in here with you and not going anywhere…" Jin Yu is grabbing the wine bottle and pour himself a portion of it.

"How about the court and other stuff inside the palace?" Ni Qing is wanting him to go back so she can roam around and check into her business," Ni Qing still tries to ask him to go back. She is really needed to go to the nearby villages to pay and get her job while outside of the palace. 

"Something is seeming so fishy… why do you want me to leave you alone? Is this not the duty of husband to be present in her maiden house after married," Jin Yu is looking sharply toward Ni Qing to find her motives. 

"Nothing special…. I just afraid if everyone is tarnishing your reputation and indulge yourself with the woman pleasure," Ni Qing is telling him.

"Do you want me to proof it? I am fine to have the reputation of emperor who indulge with women and forget about the court order. However, You needs to become the woman who is tempting the emperor with her lust. Are you ready?" Jin Yu is looking sharply toward his wife.

"Your highness, I am still on the restrain from Physician He last night due to your tremendous effort on the bed. Do you want me to pass out again? So, mean!" Ni Qing is drinking more wine on the table after hearing her husband threat.

"I know I know it well enough… let's go and have a dinner. I am starving unless you are going to offer my thirst with something else," Jin Yu is teasing her who become a crimson red check.

Ni Qing is promising to the people of the village who work under her for coming and visit them after the ancestral festival. it has been a long time for her not to meet and check into their progress. they are making a delicious wine and young green tea leaves for the tea house. However, if Jin Yu keeps her accompanied then all her plan to visit them become the ruin. 

Eunuch Wang is rushing to the kitchen to find out about the progress of the food. Aunty Shi is busy to cook her signature dishes. Some of the dishes already ready to serves while she is finishing to cook few more dishes to impress everyone else.

Jin Yu and Ni Qing are going to the family main common area near the entrance. The common room is full of the ceremonial table for their ancestry. Ni Qing and Jin Yu are lightning the incense stick and bowing to the ancestral before putting the stick on a small pot in front of their wooden tablet. Everyone is looking to their emperor who is lowering himself to be present and bowing toward the Ni family ancestral.

Jin Yu is putting his hand to her waist and push her toward the dining room. Normally, as the head of the family, Lord Ni is seating on the top of the room and lead the dinner service. However, Jin Yu is the emperor of this country. Lord Ni is wanting to settle the matter no matter the expense.

Jin Yu is taking Ni Qing to sit in the head of family table as his reputation is preceding Lord Ni reputation. Jin Yu is asking Ni Qing to join him on the table.

Ni Qing actually wants to sit next to Ni Sheng and Lin Yue while enjoying a good wine. She want to interrogate her brother about the wine. Hence, she is remembering the word from Ni Shi mouth where telling her about the whereabouts from Lin Yue.

He is the main culprit for stealing Ni Qing wine. It is outrageous when the only person who she believes not a good drinker. He almost makes Ni Qing broke with all his alcohol. Mr Zhao is reporting her about General Lin Yue who is a regular in their brothel house and always drowning himself with all sort of alcohol before sleeping in the tea house or military barrack

Ni Qing is understanding now the reason of her cousin got really angry into her new husband. He practically abandons her and does not care about her. She cannot retaliate her own heart to become jealous when her won husband never go home and spent time with his newlywed wife.

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In Concubine Chu palace, Brother Fang Min is sneaking himself as usual. However, he find young master Chun already o top of his women. He strode inside the door without knowing the consequences. The guard from Young master Chun manage to secure him who got held in the room.

"Yi… how about we let him to join us? Your body want more than only me!" Young master Chun stop all his action before he sign the guard to stop him and strip all of his outfit. The guards throw him on the ground naked. 

"yes, master..." Chu Yi is obediently goes toward Fang Min and do as told.

Young master Chun is instructing Chu Yi to serve her man before they are indulging in the sexual activity with three of them. This time, Chu Yi does not care about the consequences of her indulgent activity as long as she is satisfied, and her body urge got cure.

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