After a while later, everyone settled on their seats waiting for the performance that Ji Cheng has prepared.
Zhao Ming also straightened on her chair while waiting for the performance.
As she was waiting, some girls entered the hall wearing purple and white colored dresses, and their faces were covered with a white coloured transparent cloth or mask.
This kind of attire make them look beautiful yet mysterious. Only their eyes were visible but one can say that they are beautiful.
Zhao Ming raised her eyes seeing beautiful girls.
" As I expected, the girls are here. But their clothes.. are too conservative. Will they strip later? Is there be a strip show? Or are they going to accompany men in drinking? Because isn"t this they show in dramas, where all rich princes were surrounded by women who were too close to them or sticking with them. " she felt shudder thinking that.
" But is Ji Cheng also like that too? " she thought for a while.
The girls went in the centre and stood their making a circle. Out of the girls, one girl came forward and greeted Ji Cheng.
" Greetings to his highness. Greetings to her highness." the girl bowed and greeted them.
With her, other girls also bowed down.
Zhao Ming was startled when they greeted her, but she nodded with a smile.
A fake smile.
All these greetings and all was too much for Xie Ming.
" How could Zhao Ming could smile all the time. Ah, My cheeks hurts already."
She held her face with her hands to ma.s.sage her cheeks.
The girl greeted everyone including Xiao Li and Empress Dowager.
Then she turned her attention to Ji Cheng and stood there with a subtle smile on her face.
Ji Cheng looked at her and said, " You can start your performance."
Zhao Ming turned her attention to him and smiled, " Oohh. So he can"t even wait to see their performance. Hmm, neither I."
"I want to know what kind of entertainment these people have. Because in modern era we have dance and singing performances. Oh, I am missing my kpop. I need my BTS, MAMAMOO. " she felt bad thinking that she would not get to hear her. Favorite music.
The girl nodded and bowed in front of him.
Then she went in the circle made by the girls and went in there taking her position in the centre of the circle.
They took their positions in a minute.
Seeing their positions, Zhao Ming understood that they were going to dance but she still wanted to know what kind of dance?
* wink*
The period dramas has ruined her knowledge.
The only history she knows was because of some period dramas, otherwise she was clueless in that area.
Suddenly she heard the sound of some musical instruments.
She turned her head in the right and saw few people sitting their holding the authentic
Chinese musical instruments and were playing them skillfully.
It was her first time seeing something like this, but it"s sound was very soothing and pleasant.
The headache she had before because of all the drama resided. And she felt relax.
The girls who was standing in the middle started moving her hands in elegant and beautiful dance moves, enchanting the whole audience.
The girls around her started doing the similar moves in a circular motion but the centre of the attention was the girl standing in middle.
Her moves, her posture was just perfect. She was like a little phoenix, making everyone in the room enchanted with her beauty.
The music and their performance was coordinated and beautiful.
Zhao Ming unknowingly smiled.
She have imagined some strip dance or some lewd dance performance.
Don"t know how but she had some serious kind of misperception towards the ancient men or one can say men.
Her previous traumatic encounter with the guy in high school left her making presumptions towards all men in the society.
That"s why she had fought many times with Liwei because she believed that he was having an affair with Xinyi or cheating on her.
One because of her perception about men, another because of Xinyi"s character and provocation.
She sighed in relief.
Though she was interested to see what Ji Cheng has prepared but she was happy that it was a cultural dance performance.
And throughout the Banquet she got some time noticing Ji Cheng, and got to know him.
Otherwise she doesn"t get time to know him, because she was in her Chamber and he was in his.
She doesn"t let him stay back. So they don"t get time to know each other.
After the performance, the girl bowed in front of everyone.
Zhao Ming was so excited that she started clapping loudly after their performance. She has never seen something so beautiful.
Though she doesn"t like traditional music and dance, because she finds it quite boring.
But today"s performance was not only beautiful but enchanting. The music was sorrowful but it has some rays of hope.
Without lyrics, one can feel the music.
Everyone nodded at the girls who just performed, as they were in bowing position.
But Zhao Ming started clapping loudly.
Everyone looked towards her.
These rich and royal people will never clap for anyone as they have to maintain their poise and elegance.
They just nodded at them.
But she was not just clapping but doing it very loudly.
Suddenly the whole banquet went silent and one can only her hear her loud clapping voice.
Other people were clapping but in an elegant manner and those claps were for formality only.
The girls standing there smiled at Zhao Ming"s heartwarming gesture.
Nothing is more touching than when your hard work is being appreciated.
Before Wen Xu could say anything, Ji Cheng also started clapping.
Zhao Ming who felt awkward because everyone was staring at her, she smiled awkwardly and want to stop clapping, when she saw that Ji Cheng started clapping with her.
He noticed that she sincerely liked the performance, not like others who were just fulfilling the formality.
He also saw others stare and Wen Xu"s angry face, so he started clapping with her to share her happiness.
When he started clapping, other people looked at each other and started clapping as well.
" How could they sit silent when Emperor itself was praising the girls."
The girls who just preformed were moved to tears by the applause they were receiving, they went in bowing position and started thanking everyone.
Xiao Li and Wen Xu also had no choice but to follow the suit.
Wen Xu gritted her teeth in annoyance.