197 The Crescent Moon Symbol

Next morning, Xing and the Emperor were training in the small area they had prepared for training purposes inside her courtyard. In the past few days it has become a habit of the Emperor to train in her courtyard in the morning and then cleanup and get ready for court from there and that had created various murmurs in the inner palace that the Empress is keeping the Emperor by herself.

Xing actually felt her mind relieved after she had started using the sword. Practicing sword has always been like meditation for her as

Xing never cared how the Emperor spent his nights as she knew he'd be asked to flip a plaquette containing the name of all concubines and he'll be spending the night with the Concubine whose plaquette he chose. Xing had asked the head Eunuch to remove her plaquette from the lot so to give others a chance to get to know the Emperor. What she didn't know is that the Emperor is not spending the night with any of his Concubines.