Lotus Bud

The sky was bright today in the capital city with a cool spring breeze in the air. I'm enjoying the weather as I'm walking back home through the market after picking up my misses new dress for the choosing ceremony.

Excited to show my miss the new dress as I walk into her room with a smile on my face.

"Huiqing, you seem cheerful today! Said my young miss Li Jing of the Zhou family, her father is a very powerful general and has been a great asset to the royal family. Naturally they shall reward his contribution by allowing his daughter to participate in the choosing ceremony. The Emperor is choosing his consorts and concubines, he is new to the throne without a empress or any harem.

This will be a very large event, with many beautiful ladies. So young misses mother ordered a very beautiful new dress for miss. Although she certainty does not need any help being noticed. Miss has porcelain skin, extremely long jet black hair, large doe like eyes, with gentle lips that always seem to be smiling. I believe she is the most beautiful women in the world, and that's why misses parents don't let her go out often. And when she is allowed out she has to cover her face.

Young miss isn't the only child but she is the eldest and the most special to her parents. Her father use to tell us the magical story of young misses birth. Li Hua (young misses mother) tried very hard to have a child and thought her husband would need to marry another to produce children. But then one night she had a dream about a beautiful lotus blossom pond. A beautiful glowing baby girl laying on a large lotus blossom near the edge. Li Hua woke up the next morning knowing she was finally with child. A physician confirmed it and she was filled with joy. Every night she had the same dream throughout the pregnancy and craved lotus constantly. Then their beautiful lotus blossom baby was born.

Of course they had misses little sister Mingyu and little brother Guang after but they have never looked very much like their sister. She has a glow that is similar to the moon and it draws you to her. Perhaps this is why her parents have always kept her home. But now was her chance! She could become one of the Emperors important women and live a very comfortable life....