Proposal II

'… Banquet?' Shen Rou wondered.

Wei Ge shuddered and bowed deeply as well as Wei Yan who had just raised her sight to see her prince reaction; and as expected his eyes had sharpened.

However, they were unaware that their prince wasn't in the brink of wrath as it usually was but in the arduous task of devising which banquet they were referring to.

"How l-long have I been unconscious?"

The flying things and curse the two maidservants were expecting didn't come; hence, they were slow to respond, a thing that displeased greatly Shen Rou. Nevertheless, she wasn't the type of repeating herself when was down to business and not a casual and friendly chat.

This time, it was the petite Wei Ge who replied, "Replying to His Highness, His Highness has been sleeping for nineteen days and twenty nights."

'… almost three weeks? Then…'

Both maidservants had already lifted her heads as there wasn't a stormy mess and waited with their bodies still tense.

'… it is the banquet that led this body's Prince to practically commit suicide. How lucky of me, having awoken at such a timely moment…' Shen Rou thought with sarcasm.

Although the Fourth Prince was the son of the Imperial Noble Consort which was only below the Empress within the Imperial Harem, as a Lady Man he wasn't in line to succeed the throne and was bound to be married off like the Princesses.

Tonight's banquet was meant to receive important envoys from the Holy Light Empire, a Top Empire to which their Snow Flower Empire, a Middle Empire, was a vassal and had vital agreements with.

Hence, the Emperor, not being shy with it, had sent extravagant but womanly outfits to the Fourth Prince to attend to that particular banquet with in the hopes of deepening their relationship. He had even issued a call to all high-ranking unmarried young maidens to be present as he didn't really care who as long as strengthened the goodwill towards them; of course, it would be the best, if his own flesh and blood was the one to draw the attention of one of the envoys.

The Fourth Prince, who was in fact talented and had been painfully trying to break any womanly notion and treatment towards him to the point of cultivating senseless and breaking to the Lesser God realm at a young age, had fallen into a major outburst of rage at the sight of the clothes as he had clearly got the hidden meaning.

As Shen Rou remembered all the curses and frustrations of the Fourth Prince, hers showered upon her like rocks. She quickly fell in deep contemplation about what and how to do to drown ten thousand times over the destruction and pain she suffered on her assaulters.