With Xiao Ying taking the rare initiative to seek her out, Sun Shangxiang was naturally more than willing. Was their marriage really supposed to remain a marriage in name alone forever?!
Even if she did not think of herself as his empress, she had to consider the Eastern Wu Sun Clan. Above all, she should be grateful for Xiao Ying's special favor; otherwise, Eastern Wu might have been destroyed long ago!
At that moment, Sun Shangxiang held the longing of a woman secluded in her chambers, the responsibility of a daughter of a great house, the release of a woman confined within the palace, and the gratitude of an ordinary heart.
Of course, even heroes fell before beautiful women, and the reverse was also true. Sun Shangxiang had grown up hearing of Xiao Ying's heroic deeds and legendary renown. She had long felt an ordinary woman's admiration and affection for him, and had long been favorably disposed toward him. Otherwise, she would never have agreed so readily to submit!
Hypocrite!
Seeing Sun Shangxiang like this, Xiao Ying could not help inwardly cursing himself...
Moonlight flowed like water, and candlelight flickered.
An exotic fragrance, mistlike and sandalwood-scented, lingered throughout the hall and swirled around them, lending everything a dreamlike, illusory quality... and the entrancing sensation of ascending into an immortal realm.
"Bow-Waisted Beauty... you truly live up to your name! This... this..."
"Your... Your Majesty... please, Your Majesty..."
Sun Shangxiang did not know what had come over her...
Boom...
In an instant, the intensely nervous... Sun Shangxiang... no longer knew where she was.
Xiao Ying, however, distinctly felt a deafening buzz. Even the whole world seemed to tremble with it, as though some unyielding shackle had been broken, or some heaven-shaking crime committed.
Despite his alarm and uncertainty, Xiao Ying