Longer Days

After Wu Taohua discovered Wu Meiying and Hou Jingshu sleeping in Wu Jian’s bed, Father began stationing guards by both the door and the window to prevent them from entering again. Not even Wu Meiying with her prophetic vision could slip past them. While Wu Jian had argued with his father for a time, he soon understood that nothing he said would make the man budge.

“You’re a young man who is just beginning to step into adulthood. It does not matter if you’re engaged to Hou Jingshu. I cannot have you and her sleeping together until your wedding night.”

While it was not tradition to save yourself until marriage, Father was a very proper man. He believed in propriety and doing things right. Wu Jian also believed the reason he was so adamant about this was because Hou Jingshu was the Emperor’s daughter. Perhaps he would have been more lax if that had not been the case.

Then again, maybe not.