Proposal IV

'It is like that?

'No wonder the Emperor make this time reception so noisy. The past ones, I feel they weren't like this one but… The Holy Prince? What could he…'

"His Highness, the bath is ready.

"If… if His Highness could… make the gown choice…"

Shen Rou's thoughts were cut yet again. Wei Yan and Wei Ge who had left to make the preparations for their prince grooming when they saw the sun going down even more, had been the ones to interrupt him with uneasy and hesitation.

The discontent dark eyes of the Fourth Prince swept over them and landed on three lined luxurious gowns.

"…" He tilted his head, got up and went to them.

The two maids and eunuch tensed, last time their prince had turned to debris the lavish robes. They wanted to advise not to tear them in fear for the Emperor's punishment but before the words came out from their mouths, they noticed that their prince was looking at the attires closely and touching them with delicacy.

The calm demeanour of their prince left them tongue-tied and frozen in place with unbelief.

'… so many layers and so long. Will I be able to move freely?' Shen Rou wondered. In the past, at most, she had used four layers of clothes: underwear, inner robe, outer robe and a coat when cold or an armour when she went to war. Moreover, as she was almost always fighting, her outer robe was usually of adjusted narrow sleeves and had trousers and not such long layers of skirts. The problem wasn't the weight as there were many weightless materials but the manipulation of the length.

'Tsk… but…' Her mind flight to another side, 'they are beautiful, I rarely wear pretty female gowns. Haa- The time was so pressing that… Ha! And just when I could have had a bit of respite after the battle we were setting for… tch!

'Oh well, never mind for now. Let's go through this Emperor smoothly first.

'But all have red, I don't… ah! This body has long scarlet hair, I guess red suits him perfectly…' In the past, she didn't like how red clothes looked on her; she usually wear black robes with golden patterns like her old golden eyes and when rarely using robes with a skirt, they were black with light pink like her natural pink lips.

"This dark red with navy blue one."

The three servants were dazed, not knowing what they had heard. They only reacted when they saw the Fourth Prince walking with an unhurried pace to the bathing room.