253 Manipulation

"We need to talk", the Emperor said entering Xing's tent the next morning as she was half-heartedly eating breakfast.

"Oh!", Xing was unenthusiastic in her reply and she pushed the half finished bowl aside. For some reason she could not eat or sleep from the previous day.

"You..", the Emperor was taken aback by her ghastly look completed with the dark circles under her eyes. He has never seen her this desolate before and he felt back for her... Even when she learned that she cannot have children, she wasn't this sorrowful!

"I don't know why I said what I said yesterday but I'm sorry... I...", he didn't know how to explain but he wanted to talk about it and explain to her now he only thinks of her as his friend and sister-in - law. .