Ordinarily, when taking a wife, a husband had to go to her home in person to fetch her. Even Dijun had personally driven his wedding carriage to the Lunar Star to seek Xi He's hand, treating her with humility and showing her every respect.
In common parlance, husband and wife were one, the emperor and empress equally honored, sharing in the glory.
Taking a concubine, however, required no such thing. A man could simply wait in the main hall for the woman to approach him. Of course, if he wished to honor her, he could go out to greet her himself, but there was nothing wrong with staying put. It violated no rules of propriety.
Hearing the shout outside the hall, Gungun turned to look at Ao Yue, who was dressed in red. Seeing him stand there without moving, a guileless smile flashed across Gungun's round, chubby face. Apparently, something had happened that the Heavenly Emperor knew nothing about.
"Heh." With a soft chuckle, Gungun went on biting into the Spirit Fruit in his hand.
Outside the hall, the dowry maids who had accompanied Ao Cunxin from the Western Sea to the Heavenly Court could not help looking troubled when the Heavenly Sovereign still did not come out to welcome her. They turned toward Ao Cunxin, dressed in her wedding robes with a red veil over her head, and waited for her next instructions.
It was her wedding day. Fine, her husband had not come to the Western Sea to fetch her in person, but now she was right outside the hall, and he would not even come out to greet her. Ao Cunxin felt deeply aggrieved. She was the dignified Third Princess of the West Sea, yet she was being treated like this at her own wedding, with no