The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Dream
She took him into her writing room and shut the door.
The lamp was low.
Rain drummed on the roof tiles, and the whole room smelled of wet wool and ink.
"You're soaked," she said. "Take off the cloak."
He unfastened it and let it fall over the back of a chair.
Water ran from his hair down his neck.
She went to the chest by the wall, pulled out a plain gray robe, and tossed it to him.
"Zhengyu's. He's bigger than you."
"He's bigger than most things."
"Change. I'll turn around."
"You don't have to."
"I'm turning around."
She faced the window.
She heard wet cloth peel away from skin, and a soft breath.
She could not help it.
She glanced over her shoulder.
His back was bare, lit gold by the lamp, lean and wide at the shoulder.
Across it, from the left blade to the right hip, ran the pale ridged lines of old scars.
Seven of them. She counted.
He had taken seven strokes of the whip in the stable yard, and he had worn them for four years.
Qin pulled the gray robe over his head and turned.
He had seen her looking.
Neither of them said anything.
"Sit," said Shuyao, and her voice came out lower than she meant.
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