Liu Mingyan has found the women here perfectly open to her advances, but she thinks perhaps she should keep that to herself. She sits back, a little, to process.
This is not, then, the change that she had hoped for; of course it wasn't. It seems Luo Binghe has not reevaluated his understanding of his own power, or his desire to rule, simply the sex of those he wishes to share his bed. Fine. It's not as if she can judge him, there, though she might struggle to understand how his wives could fail to rouse his blood or bring him true satisfaction when she has first-hand experience of their talent at both.1
"You have taken lovers here, then?" she asks. "Male lovers, rather than wives? And--" This next question is harder, for some reason; it sticks in her throat. "They have made you happy?"
1 Not with all of them,2 of course, but one might call it a representative sample. 2 She doesn't even want it with all of them. But there is one exception that rankles.
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Date: 2023-12-14 05:35 pm (UTC)This is not, then, the change that she had hoped for; of course it wasn't. It seems Luo Binghe has not reevaluated his understanding of his own power, or his desire to rule, simply the sex of those he wishes to share his bed. Fine. It's not as if she can judge him, there, though she might struggle to understand how his wives could fail to rouse his blood or bring him true satisfaction when she has first-hand experience of their talent at both.1
"You have taken lovers here, then?" she asks. "Male lovers, rather than wives? And--" This next question is harder, for some reason; it sticks in her throat. "They have made you happy?"
1 Not with all of them,2 of course, but one might call it a representative sample.
2 She doesn't even want it with all of them. But there is one exception that rankles.