The Three Day Wait

Hou Chi woke up the following morning and her days went on as it has always been, so much so that she was starting to think that maybe her marriage was but a dream. 

Just as she was starting to think this Hou Yu knocked on her screen door, Hou Chi looked up and found Hou Yu holding something in her hand. 

"What is it?" Hou Chi asked her and she smiled 

"True God Bai Jue had his bond to send it." Hou Yu said to her and Hou Chi chuckled, that bond was so lazy but he was ordered to send her something. 

"What did Bai Jue make him bring over?" Hou Chi asked as she pushed her things aside and motioned for Hou Yu to set the thing in her hand down at her desk. Hou Yu smiled as she came inside excitedly and set the thing she was holding in her hand to her.

Once she looked at it though, Hou Chi looked at Hou Yu

"Perfume pouch?" Hou Chi asked her and she nodded, Hou Chi smiled as she reached into the tray and picked up the pouch along with the letter. 

Hou Chi smelled the pouch and smiled, it was a scent she liked; fresh flowers mixed with sandalwood that tickled her nose. 

"To Hou Chi 

These three days I wait for you will not be easy but I will wait three day to spend the rest of my life with you. I know you like the scent of flowers with sandalwood, I made the bag and the flowers. Wear it on our wedding night. "

Hou Chi smiles as she reads the letter, once she reads it, Hou Chi sets the letter down. 

"Set the bag in my wardrobe." Hou Chi said to Hou Yu, who smiled at her and took the bag from her, gently as if she was handling a treasure. 

"Would you like to send something back to the true god?" Hou Yu asked her and she shook her head

"Let Bai Jue wait." Hou Chi said to Hou Yu

"Yes, master." Hou Yu please reply with a smile on her lip.

"Come help me do my hair, I promise to see Er'Xi." Hou Chi said to her and Hou Yu nodded as she put the bag away. Hou Yu made her way to Hou Chi and helped her do her hair before Hou Chi headed out to meet Er'Xi and her kids.

The second day 

Hou Chi was taking a stroll in the garden after she has finished her paperwork, but while she was making a turn she noticed Hou Yu making her way into the Spring Palace. 

"A'Yu." Hou Chi called out to her and Hou Yu smiled at her as she walked over to Hou Chi

"Good evening, master." Hou Yu said to her and she nodded

"Where did you come back from?" Hou Chi asked her and she smiled, Hou Yu put out her arms and magically a tray appeared in her arms.

"I came back from true god Bai Jue's palace." Hou Yu said to her and handed her the tray with a mischievous smile. 

"Behave well." Hou Chi reminded her and she chuckled as she nodded 

On the tray was a pair of red shoes, and on it was a delicate snow flower embroidered on the shoe with a note 

" I made this shoe myself, I would like for you to wear it on our wedding day. Many say that giving a shoe to your loved one is like letting them walk away from you, but I hope that this shoe will lead you right to me." 

Reading this, Hou Chi sat there with a smile on her face. While Hou Yu smiled at her master, she lowered herself to be face to-face with her master. 

"What did true god Bai Jue write this time to make you blush like this?" Hou Yu asked her and Hou Chi hit her slightly. 

"Go put the shoe away." Hou Chi said to her and Hou Yu picked up the shoe but before she went anywhere, Hou Yu stood by her master's side instead.

"What else did you need, Ah Yu?" Hou Chi asked her and she chuckled 

"Master, you now have a wedding shoe but what about your dress for the wedding?" Hou Yu asked her and she chuckled 

"He sent me a shoe today, tomorrow might as well be my dress. If he's going to prepare why should I?" Hou Chi asked as she continued on her walk, making her way back to her study. 

The third day

Hou Yu was called away in the morning, right after she was done with helping Hou Chi get ready for the day. 

"Go on." Hou Chi said to her, Hou Yu bowed and headed out. 

Hou Chi did not see Hou Yu until later on that day, when Hou Yu only returned a little before dinner with the goddesses of the other seasons. 

"Master." Hou Yu said to her as she bowed to the other goddesses, Hou Chi turned to acknowledge her and noticed that she had come back with yet another tray and has someone following behind her as well. 

"Set the tray down and come eat." Hou Chi said to her and Hou Yu nodded as she set the tray down and signaled for the maid from Bai Jue's palace to set down her tray and was dismissed. 

They all sat down together and ate dinner, once they were done with dinner all of the other goddesses insisted on going with Hou Chi and Hou Yu back to the winter palace. They wanted to see the things that were sent to Hou Chi. 

Once they arrived at the Winter Palace, the goddesses with their spirit bonds stayed with her, waiting to see what it was that he had sent her. 

Hou Chi looked at all of them as they stared back at her

"Well?" Er'Xi asked her and she chuckled as she set the tray down and took the cover on the tray off, on the tray was no doubt a wedding dress that he made for her. 

The dress was adorned with many gems and gold, but most of all the lotus that was on the dress was as white as snow and matches with the shoe that he had sent her the day before. As Hou Chi was admiring the dress, the others urged her to go try it on, she had no choice but to try it on for them to see. 

The underdress was a nice silk red with white lotus only on the trims and the front trims only, the skirt was embroidered in silver thread with gems to make a beautiful white lotus pattern. The outer coat was adorned with jewels and on the back was big lotus embroidered on it with other flowers and butterflies. The sleeves, the belt and the front trims was embroidered and decorated in gems just as the under layer. 

"It's beautiful." Shang Gu said to her and she smile

"The true god had asked me to let you know that he made this dress himself. He said he made the fabric thread by thread and embroidered every stitch and embedded every gem." Hou Yu said to her and she smiled 

"That sounds like him." Hou Chi said as she motioned for Hou Yu to come over to help her take off the clothes

"As you ladies know, tomorrow is my wedding day. I should head into bed so that I am ready for tomorrow." Hou Chi said to them as Hou Yu helped her to take off her clothes, the goddesses looked at her with smiles before they headed out. 

Once the dress was off, Hou Chi dismissed Hou Yu as she admire the dress with the shoes and crown that he had sent her.