The Plagued Fate

Leonara felt her whole body ache. It felt like a carriage ran over her. She woke up stretching to find the man still in bed staring at her. She looked back and smiled. She didn't know where she was as she had no memories of anyone or anything, so she just kept quiet while maintaining eye contact.

Chen was speechless. He thought she would blush or avoid eye contact because of what happened last night, but she looked at him and smiled; he'd wanted to get rid of her that morning, but now he felt conflicted—not only because of her skills in bed, obviously, but because this was the perfect opportunity to have the son he desperately desired.

To do that, he had to cover his tracks quickly, so he woke up, draped his gown without wearing something inside and closed the sash in front of it. He closed it off, but his chest was peeking, and Nara, not knowing what came over her whistled.

Chen and the lady stared at each other in shock; Chen found her odd, but luckily, she was amusing, so he was glad to keep her around.

Nara was very embarrassed. She just acted like a courtesan. This wasn't how she, the great queen of The Jurak empire, should behave.

She thought maybe when her soul was passing through realms a horny ghost attached itself to her soul that was the only explanation that made sense to her because there was no way the prim and proper her could have done any of what she did last night and this morning and she remembered what happened and her face felt flushed.

Chen, seeing her acting shy now, chuckled and hearing that made her cover her face, and that made him laugh out loud. He stilled, not believing that sound had come from him as he couldn't remember the last time he laughed as the palace was a mourning ground each morning he woke.

"Wear your clothes. We are leaving", he instructed her, and his voice was deep and velvety, making her feel weird inside, but the realization dawned on her: she could understand his foreign language, which was okay and was more shocked she could speak it.

Chen stood there looking at her reaction change from naughty to surprised and to astonishment. He didn't know what she was thinking, but he knew it was nothing good, so he didn't ask.

She stood as the silk cover slid down her body, and she was standing stark naked in front of him. Chen felt something rising, and he had to breathe in and out and recite some Buddhist mantras in his head.

The lady did not know what she was doing and what surprised him more she wasn't doing that to act coy or seduce him it was like it was normal for her and he felt rage bubbling inside him as he wondered if she ever acted like this in front of anyone else but last night was a testament that he was her first and his rage surprised him as he never felt like this before not even with his empress.

He looked at her, saw her struggling with her clothes, and, vexed and amused, went to help her. He started with her underwear, then her short jacket, and finally her skirt.

She really liked the clothes, as she did not have to wear corsets anymore. This was the perfect clothing for her, and she twirled her skirt, liking it very much.

Chen didn't like how the maid's outfit looked on her, but he saw how happy she looked with it and even twirling in it. She looked very adorable, and he thought she was satisfied with what she had. Little did he know.

Chen knew the news would soon spread in the palace that he spent the night with a woman and for the first time in five years failed to attend morning court so he wanted to get ahead before the vultures who called themselves his women got any whiff of this so he walked to the door and signalled and a hidden shadow guard immediately appeared.

Nara was behind him, wondering how this man suddenly appeared out of thin air, and Chen, seeing her stare at the man, stood in front of the small gap she was staring from, needing to cover her sight. Her staring at another man annoyed him so much.

So he glared at the poor shadow guard who felt chills on his neck, wondering what he did wrong, and the Chen told him to silence his concubine and her maids and spread the word about how she drugged him and he had to spend the night in her palace. He knew the women in the harem would take care of her.

Now, the only issue was to make sure no one suspected that, or else his little lady would be the next ornament hanging on the wall of the palace.

So he went back to the lady who was sitting on the bed and told her he would go, but a shadow guard would come, and they would meet in a while. Nora nodded, agreeing, and Chen left reluctantly.

Nara looked for a mirror around the room and found it, she looked at her face and realised she was around the age of eighteen and had a pretty and round face she also realised she had deep dimples whenever she smiled though the face was cute she wondered what the handsome guy saw in her to marry her although she was cute she wasn't a beauty that could topple cities and overthrow kingdoms. 

She felt some movement on the door and could see a woman who was wearing all black. She looked very heroic, and the woman bowed and introduced herself as her guard and asked her to follow her.

Since Nora was told by her husband that a guard would come to take her, she followed the guard, and they passed an isolated corner of the palace. After walking for a while, Nora had no time to look around as the guard was walking too fast and she was struggling to catch up.

After walking a bit they reached an old palace but otherwise in good shape, the guard told her to go inside and wait, she went inside and started touring she saw the bedroom which had a nice bed that was made so since her whole body was aching and walking faster now made it ache more, she laid down on the bed and close her eyes drifting to sleep.