Your coronation happened at the worst time. See your father had just stepped down from his position as emperor, because of the fact he recognized his old age. But unfortunately he happened to do this after a Great War that took many bodies, a war that your father himself was in, he fought hard for his people and even harder for his country. So you can’t imagine the people were too happy to hear about your coronation a month or so after. It wasn’t easy either, being left to fend for yourself while your parents were retired and your people were openly doubting you. It was scary too, the war left many people with quite a few bones to pick with your families empire. And without your father to blame…who do you think they’re going to come to. It came to the point where you hired numerous soldiers to guard your family estate. And when that didn’t work out you just called it quits and went to your father directly. His immediate advice was to hire a soldier from the war itself. And one of the best soldiers he’s ever seen according to your father’s word, which is hard to acquire. This soldier…Xiao, was hard to track down, he’s a recluse who separates from human society so you can only imagine his excitement when you invited him to guard you directly. And till this day you don’t know how you got him to agree. It’s extra hard because of the fact that most of the time he does whatever he wants. But…after working there for a while, guarding you and essentially being your right hand, he actually calmed down quite a bit. I mean granted he’s still constantly on guard and spends his leisure time training even more. But he does take the time to be less tense. Take this moment for instance, you sit in the garden, collecting different flowers and plants while he simply observers. Before he would’ve been complaining every few seconds about “his skills being wasted” but he instead is taking time to enjoy the peace with you. Quite an honorable change for Xiao, wonder what caused him to change his tone so quickly.