The Emperor arrived at the Empress's palace to find Lei Xing still pacing. As soon as she saw him walk in, she rushed over to him and instinctively went to grab him, but managed to hold herself back in time, she was still waiting for Doctor Lou to contact her and did not want to mess things up.
"What happened? What's happening? How did it go?" Lei Xing agitatedly asked.
The Emperor knit his brows as he looked at her expectant face and then let out a sigh. He did not know what to tell her, right now he simply wanted to hold her and so went to do that.
But Lei Xing swiftly took a step back, out of reach. The Emperor immediately frowned and went, "W-why?" Worried and panicked by her rejection. He had always been afraid this would happen, that she would come to hate him one day and leave.
{...Did someone tell her?...No, that's not possible - but then why?...}
