Bai Lan and other servants have set up the table. There is Li Jun. There is his second wife. There is his son. There is me.
Why I am here? I don't fit this 'family mealtime' equation at all.
Though Bai Lan is cool and composed, the servants are looking at me with curiosity. His concubine is all smiles. I feel jolts in my body when I notice the look in her eyes. This princess doesn't like that I am here. I don't like her either.
"Are we having an early lunch?" His second wife asks him.
Early lunch? I don't have a watch or anything. I can't sleep. I kept my eyes close for the entire night and thought about the keeper's problem. Maybe I thought too much and too deeply because the entire house was already awake when I opened my eyes.
"I was hungry," Li Jun replies quietly. "Xiao Wei, why are you not eating?"
"..."
