EMPEROR AND I

LUO MENG

HOUGONG

Pain is temporary . It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a season, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place . The marks pain leave are too often scars .

As a child, the only touch that Luo Meng ever received was pain . The emotion he was familiar with was angst; loneliness being his best friend

It was while working under the emperor, crown prince at the time, that he discovered the possibility of  having touch not a.s.sociated with pain . But however that still did not mean he was comfortable to have someone near him or touch him . His wounds were too deep and wide that it would probably take him a lifetime to heal .

Any woman near him, he hated . Woman was part of the ident.i.ty that made up the person who abused him . She was a torture to him . She was mean . She was ruthless .

She would go for days without feeding him, clothing him or be any kind of provider she was meant to be; on top of that she would beat him mercilessly .

Advertis.e.m.e.ntHis childhood was not the kindest and as a result, he lost his vision . It was the kind of blindness that possessed the soul, that every woman could not be different but was a replica of the woman who abused him . Even the woman who lay in his hands at present looked like her, the abuser .

He was thinking of tearing her apart into pieces . It would feel good to shred her and watch her pain mirror the pain his eyes bore years ago .

"Follow me," the palace maid directed him into one of the bedchambers he was to lay her . In the palace there were women everywhere and he hated that too .

He was led into a large bedchamber that smelt of a woman . Women everywhere, they were out to get him . Moreover, he could barely make out much as it was dark .

Were they conspiring against him?

He breathed in deeply to calm himself . When he started to tremble, it was a sign that he was losing his sanity and letting the emotions of his past control him .

"Our Grand Consort Shu loves Li Lian, that she sleeps in the same bedchamber with her mistress . " The maid behind him tried to make conversation .

He didn"t respond . He was barely a talker himself .

Sensing the awkwardness, the maid added, "Lay her down on the mattress while I go get a lamp . "

If only she knew the war inside his mind, he doubted that she would leave him behind with a helpless maiden in his hands . He traipsed to what he made out to be a mattress . Slowly hunkering down, he carefully lay her .

If not for her, he would have self-control for His Majesty"s sake, concerning the interest he held for her even though he was not aware of it . That is what made the emperor and him suitable companions . They both battled demons of their own .

He felt the warm touch of her body leave him, making him to almost reach out to her again . He kind of craved it somehow, touch that did not have pain accompanying it .

Then could he have it? Just a little, just a little bit more . He came into contact with her, grazing her hand .

She moved slightly .

"Luo Meng . . . " she muttered .

He flinched away, surprised by the sound of his name on her lips .

"Luo Meng . . . Don"t you remember me?" Her voice was soft that it lulled the inside of him to still . He did not know why she a.s.sumed that he knew her .

"Our time at the Borderlands? Your promise to marry me? Do you . . . not remember?"

Luo Meng caught his breath in shock . "What does my lady mean?"

"Luo Meng . . . "

"My lady?" He spoke respectfully because with the information she possessed, his life was about to change .

"Don"t you remember your Elora?"

"Elo . . . Elora?"

He could not believe it . In front of him was the emperor"s beloved .

"After all this time, here she is . "

They had searched far and beyond for her yet she was always there, right before them .

"I"m your Elora, Luo Meng . Your Elora . " And with that she slipped back into unconsciousness .

He let her because what he knew was adequate enough to prove his faithfulness to the emperor . The heavens were with him . For so long he had lived in guilt, but not anymore .  Because he had found Elora .
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