Captivation

"What?" someone asked. 

To Scarlet's dismay, a few chuckles went around in the room. More than one person had found her words funny. Not Esong Wu though, he neither smiled nor reacted. 

She assumed that he was thinking about throttling her because of her words. 

But she was dead wrong! Esong Wu was not furious at Scarlet and he never heard her words because he was smitten with her new looks. She looked extremely beautiful, modest and calm. 

Esong's favorite place in the world was at the side of an ocean. It was always calm, beautiful and steady. That is what she reminded him of, the ocean. At the same time, she was bright and glowing, he could only compare her glow to one of the suns in the empire. 

When did woman change so much and what prompted this change? Did she realize that her old methods of seduction would not work so she found a new way?

"No, get a grip of yourself, you can never allow this woman to come close to you."