Time always slipped by unnoticed. Before long, dawn arrived.
At the Heavenly Sovereign's Divine Hall, light from the Solar Star shone through the windows into the bedchamber. Ao Cunxin, who had been resting in bed, slowly opened her eyes. The moment she woke, she instinctively turned to look beside her, only to find... no one again. Had he gone to court again?
No!
Ao Cunxin snapped fully awake and abruptly sat up.
The Heavenly Court held a minor court assembly every five days and a grand assembly once a month. Ao Yue had only attended court yesterday. How could he possibly have gone again today?
At that thought, Ao Cunxin immediately called outside, "Someone come here! Where has the Heavenly Sovereign gone?"
The maids who had accompanied her as part of her dowry hurried in, bowing. The maid at their head curtsied to Ao Cunxin and reported, "Your Majesty, His Majesty left six hours ago. He first went to the main hall to deal with some memorials, then left the Divine Hall. We do not know where he went."
Ao Cunxin's expression changed drastically at those words. There was nothing wrong with getting out of bed late at night to deal with memorials. Men had ambitions, and women like her could understand that. But! Instead of coming back to sleep after finishing his memorials, he had gone out in the middle of the night. What... what was that supposed to mean?
Could it be... she had left him deeply dissatisfied, and he did not want to share a bed with her? Or... did he have another woman outside?
The moment that suspicion entered Ao Cunxin's mind, she could no longer sit still.
In the past, Yang Jian had been unable to bear her suspicious nature and jealousy, and had suffered