The Wheel of Fortune Turns

"I don't think Taihe Hall was what you found entertaining. I think it was the Empress you found entertaining." The Yellow-robed Woman used her little finger to tuck the loose hair before her eyes behind her ear, biting her lip slightly as she glared at Song Qingshu.

"Uh..." Song Qingshu felt awkward and gave an embarrassed laugh. "They were both entertaining, both entertaining. Haha."

"You really did the Em—" The Yellow-robed Woman's face filled with shock. Halfway through, she realized such crude words were unfit to say aloud. She could only stare at Song Qingshu with a flushed face. The Fifth Princess, lying on the bed, abruptly sat up straight as well, her cherry-red lips forming a round O as she instinctively covered her mouth.

"There's no need to tell you the details, is there? We're not close enough for that, are we?" Song Qingshu finally came to his senses. This woman was neither my wife nor my lover. Why the hell was I feeling guilty in front of her?

"Shameless!" The Yellow-robed Woman sat down on a stool in a huff, turning her head away and refusing even to look at him.

"Hey, how am I shameless? It was consensual. Men and women falling in love is perfectly normal," Song Qingshu said gloomily.

"What part of that was consensual?" The Yellow-robed Woman seemed to have had a sore spot struck, and anger flared at once. "One was a married woman, the other a married man. One betrayed her husband, the other betrayed his wife... and they... they got together. And that isn't shameless?"

"Uh..." Song Qingshu suddenly realized she was not entirely wrong. By the values of this world, such conduct truly was not very honorable—actually, it had not been honorable in his previous life either. It was just