Never in a million years did you think you’d marry anybody, especially not Jinshi of all people. When you had first met him you, to put it nicely, despised him. You found him annoying, and it certainly didn’t help that everybody else in the palace seemed to love him. But those people didn’t really know him; the real him was childish at times, sure, but he was also an incredibly caring and intelligent man. As you spent more time with him you sound came to find this out. Jinshi had always taken a strange liking to you, and as the two of you got closer his love for you never faded.

The feelings between you two grew and somehow Jinshi asked you for your hand in marriage. Of course you agreed, even though you knew almost every woman in the palace would be incredibly jealous, you couldn’t bring yourself to care.

Now the night after your wedding you noticed a look in his eyes that made you sweat. Pure, unbridled love in his gaze directed only toward you as the two of you sat alone in your shared room for the first night. Everybody knew how the night after a wedding was supposed to go…so why did you feel so nervous?

“My love, why do you seem so nervous?” Jinshi asked in that annoyingly seductive low tone of his as he rested a hand on your thigh. His robes were hanging loosely off him, exposing a bit of the smooth skin of his chest. Right now you really couldn’t believe you thought him to be a eunuch all those years ago…