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[emperorssmile]

It’s finished.

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[shangba]

Have they not owned your guilt long enough?

[emperorssmile]

Do you think they’d be happy for me or disappointed..?

[shangba]

I believe sect leader Jiang cared for you.

[emperorssmile]

He was always supportive and kind to me. And he cared about my father enough to take me in.

[shangba]

Yet he enshrined obligation in you.

[emperorssmile]

He was a sect leader first and foremost, so can you blame him for wanting me to keep Jiang Cheng safe?

[shangba]

As your husband, I can.

[emperorssmile]

What about as a father?

[shangba]

I would not forsake one son to benefit another.

[emperorssmile]

I wouldn’t, either.

I can only do so much to support Jiang Cheng. Is it enough?

[shangba]

Why should it be you who devises more?

[emperorssmile]

Jin Ling and I are his only family because no woman would put up with his temper.

I guess it’s enough. I’ll help him when I can, but I won’t obsess over it. It’s not like he’d ask it of me.

[shangba]

But you would wish him to.

[emperorssmile]

Yeah, but he’s not the sort of person to admit when he needs help. Never has been.

Will you still come with me to the Ancestral Hall sometime before we leave Lotus Pier? I want them to know that I’m in good hands.

[shangba]

You wish for us to bow there again?

[emperorssmile]

Exactly.

So will you come?

[shangba]

If that is your wish, how may I deny it?

[emperorssmile]

You could if it were something you wouldn’t want to do.

I managed to get some food in me.

[shangba]

Will you sleep also?

[emperorssmile]

I’ll try to nap when I get back to my room. I took a walk and got street food, but I didn’t walk too far.

[shangba]

Is it as you remember?

[emperorssmile]

The food or my room?

Food tastes just like it used to, but my room is different. I wasn’t expecting Jiang Cheng to give me a room of my own, but he did. I think it’s his way of saying I’m welcome here.

[shangba]

Where else would a father and child have been sat? My husband? In a stable?

[emperorssmile]

That’s… Lan Zhan, that’s not what I meant. He gave me a room that’s for my use anytime, any day. No one else will use it even when I’m in Gusu.

[shangba]

To make up his sins.