To cover up her own guilty conscience, Si Chu's tone deliberately carried a hint of disdain, "Have your eyes also stopped working?"
Who has bad eyesight?!
Mingshu glared at him with puffed-up anger, while at the same time, she was incredulous internally.
If he's not satisfied with a waist this thin, then what kind of waist would he consider thin in his eyes?
Mingshu felt a sudden wave of panic and a line of poetry came to her mind:
"The King of Chu admires a slender waist; many in his palace die of hunger."
That saying was about Prince Ling of Chu liking men with slim waists, so much so that the court officials, fearing they might lose favor with the Emperor for having a fat waist, dared not eat much. They controlled their waist size by eating only one meal a day.
Feeling sympathetic, she was relieved that Si Chu wasn't that twisted; otherwise, those ministers would really be pitiable.
