After Rebirth, My Wife Turned Out to Be Myself - Chapter 82

Actually, the General Affairs Office did have a tile for Wanyi Palace.

Unfortunately, because Xie Wan had not been intimate with anyone since her rebirth, the custom of flipping tiles had been abolished.

Later, the imperial harem was dismissed, and the tiles for each palace were destroyed one by one by the General Affairs Office, leaving only the one for Wanyi Palace. The tile was still there, but there were no other consorts in the palace, so there was no longer any need to flip it.

Thus, after two or three years, the tile for Wanyi Palace was hung up again in the General Affairs Office.

However, everyone understood clearly that this was merely a private amusement between Her Majesty and the Lady Consort.

That night, when Xie Wan flipped the Wanyi Palace tile for the first time.

The usually lively Wanyi Palace seemed to quiet down all of a sudden.

The palace staff bowed their heads after performing their greetings, escorting her into the sleeping quarters with lowered gazes.

As Xie Wan pushed open the door, she caught a faint scent. The fragrance wasn’t strong, but it was quite alluring.

Xie Wan had spent many years in the palace; she recognized this scent. It was the work of the General Affairs Office, and she had smelled this same fragrance the night she first entered the palace.

Not bothered by it, Xie Wan walked around the screen. A mound rose on the large bed in Wanyi Palace.

Sensing her movement, the person on the bed called out with flushed cheeks, “Your Majesty.”

She had likely bathed. Her soft, long hair, like a black waterfall of ink, cascaded naturally onto the quilt. Under the bright candlelight, one could see Anyu’s usually heroic brows were now lowered submissively. Sitting on the bed waiting for her, she didn’t resemble the renowned and formidable young general at all, but rather a new bride waiting in the bridal chamber for the wedding night.

Just married… Xie Wan mused over her thought, a hint of a smile playing on her lips.

Xie Wan sat down on the edge of the bed and couldn’t help but reach out to lift a strand of Anyu’s hair to her nose, inhaling lightly. The fragrance of her hair seemed to dispel the strange scent in the room.

Anyu sensed something and said, “Before Your Majesty came, I opened the window to air it out, but perhaps a little scent still lingered.”

“It’s an aphrodisiac scent. The General Affairs Office likes to arrange these things.”

She raised a hand and pressed it against Anyu’s lips. The moist lips were free of any makeup. “The people from the General Affairs Office didn’t make you put on makeup?”

Anyu coughed lightly, looking up at her. “I didn’t let them.”

She didn’t like the smell of cosmetics, she thought. What she didn’t like, Her Majesty probably wouldn’t like either.

Xie Wan raised an eyebrow. “I thought you listened to everything they said.”

Obediently bathing, then obediently sitting on the bed waiting. Truly like a consort whose tile had been flipped.

Anyu smiled, then touched her nose and said, “They also wanted me to wear more alluring clothes, but I didn’t.”

Xie Wan looked over. Anyu was still wearing her white inner garment neatly, the cotton material very soft.

Seeing her look, Anyu added, “Originally, I thought those clothes were too vulgar… but then I thought, it’s not for anyone else to see, so…”

“It’s not like I didn’t wear anything.”

Xie Wan: ?

“The inner layer, I changed it,” Anyu smiled at her, her bright eyes full of allure, and of course, a hint of shyness.

The inner layer.

Xie Wan stared at her close-fitting inner garment, thinking again. The inner layer, inside the inner garment… wasn’t that…

Ahem.

“I want to see,” Xie Wan said in a low, serious voice.

Anyu shrank back slightly, smiling sweetly. “I have one condition.”

Xie Wan looked at her with dark eyes. “Speak.”

Anyu looked at her and just laughed. “Your Majesty has to wear it too.”

Xie Wan was startled at first, then raised an eyebrow slightly. “You want to see?”

“Yes.”

“Alright.”

She agreed too quickly, without even thinking. Anyu’s eyes curved into crescents. She fumbled under the pillow and pulled out a piece of… fabric, throwing it to Xie Wan.

Xie Wan, however, seriously began to straighten it out, holding it in her hand without feeling any shame. She even untangled every thin string, spreading the fabric out to look at it.

Her Anyu, wearing this kind of clothing under her inner garment?

She had truly grown up.

She knew how to be alluring now too.

“I won’t wear this,” Xie Wan tossed the fabric behind her, letting it fall to the ground.

Anyu pouted. “You clearly agreed just now…”

“If you want to see, I can wear it for you, but…” Xie Wan fixed her gaze on the buttons of Anyu’s inner garment. “I want to wear the one you have on.”

She wanted to wear the one on her body? Wouldn’t that mean she would have to…

Anyu’s eyes widened. After understanding her meaning, her face turned crimson, and she was completely flustered with embarrassment.

Anyu felt she had underestimated Her Majesty’s capabilities.

In her mind, Her Majesty, like her, was a woman who had never experienced such things. That’s why she playfully wanted to see Her Majesty look embarrassed and tongue-tied too.

But now…

Her eyes were glistening with tears, completely overcome with shame.

“I’m not teasing you anymore,” Xie Wan chuckled softly, beckoning to her. “Come here. Let me hold you.”

Her expression was still the same as usual, her eyes full of tenderness.

This reassured Anyu. She hummed softly and shuffled towards her.

Once she was embraced by Xie Wan’s arms, sitting in her lap, her hands naturally resting around her neck, Anyu leaned against her and sighed softly.

Safe.

“Your Majesty doesn’t look like…” someone inexperienced. Anyu mumbled softly.

Xie Wan held her, not responding, just smiling.

Even if she hadn’t eaten pork, she had seen pigs run.

“Don’t be afraid,” Xie Wan gently stroked her hair soothingly.

“Not afraid… just a little unsure how to… What those people from the General Affairs Office taught was too much.”

“They thought I had ‘eaten’ you many times.”

Xie Wan was telling the truth. After all, the palace staff wouldn’t dare to imagine that the most favored Consort Wan, after three years in the palace, was still a virgin.

Anyu pouted. “Couldn’t allure Your Majesty at all.” Instead, she was outmaneuvered.

Xie Wan kissed her pouty lips. “Why listen to them?”

Anyu: “Your Majesty must be familiar with my body… I was afraid Your Majesty would look at this body and…”

How could she feel desire for her own body?

So… she went to consult the wet nurses from the General Affairs Office.

Xie Wan wrapped her arms around her waist. Beneath the thin inner garment was a warm, firm abdomen, completely free of any excess flesh due to years of martial arts training.

She was Xie Wan, and also Xie Anyu. Naturally, she had seen this body’s appearance, even the location of every mole was clear to her.

But she hadn’t expected Anyu to actually think she was ‘incapable’.

Xie Wan: “Want to try?”

Anyu’s heart skipped a beat hearing those words.

Last time, after she said those same words, she had kissed her lips, her pair of peach blossom eyes almost stealing one’s soul.

Anyu looked at her cautiously.

This time, the peach blossom eyes were dark and deep, like a bottomless lake, with a huge, man-eating monster lurking beneath the calm surface.

“Take it off. Let me see if you’ve really grown up.”

Xie Wan buried her head in Anyu’s neck, her voice hoarse.

Anyu flinched as if burned by her breath, mirroring her current state of mind: excited, yet wanting to escape.

She wondered if it was too late to say she didn’t need to try anymore.

The next day, Anyu woke up groggily from her sleep.

Her eyes opened, and she was momentarily blank. Then she blinked again, finally realizing what had happened.

The slight discomfort on her body was negligible for someone who had trained in martial arts for years.

Anyu sat up.

She hugged the quilt, burying her face in it.

She had been ‘eaten’.

But then she thought again, in the end, Her Majesty didn’t wear it for her to see.

As for that fabric on her body, it was later thrown onto the ground, wet.

However, it had already been tidied up by now.

Anyu’s face flushed. She put on her clothes and got up.

She yawned and pushed open the door. The spring air no longer carried a chill. The morning sun wasn’t warm, but it easily tore through the thin morning mist, letting the light spill freely into the courtyard.

Anyu hadn’t fully come to her senses when she heard a call, “Anyu, you’re awake?”

Xie Anyu was startled, then saw the person truly appear in her courtyard. She suddenly came to her senses, realizing it was already time for court to be dismissed.

She ran over with a smile, towards her morning sun.

“Your Majesty! Court is dismissed?”

“Mm.”

“Coming to Wanyi Palace right after court?” This wasn’t like Her Majesty’s usual style.

Xie Wan: “I told you, before you leave the palace for the campaign, you will stay with me. And I will stay with you.”

After speaking, she looked Anyu up and down again. “Is there anywhere you feel uncomfortable?”

Anyu: !

“No!”

Xie Wan took her hand and walked inside. “That’s good.”

When their hands touched, Anyu’s face turned red all the way to her neck. She could only stammer, “Your Majesty, aren’t you having breakfast?”

“Yes, but before that, I have something for you.”

Xie Wan placed a tile in her hand.

“What is this?” It was a fine jade tile, square and proper, with the characters ‘Xie Wan’ carved on it. Anyu was momentarily confused.

“I had someone make it according to the tiles from the General Affairs Office.”

Anyu: ?

Seeing that she still didn’t quite understand, Xie Wan smiled and kissed her cheek. “My tile, I’ve also given it to Young General Xie.”

The tile in Anyu’s palm tightened suddenly.

“Then, then tonight, can I flip Your Majesty’s tile too?” the young general asked, blushing.

Xie Wan shook her head. “No.”

Anyu’s eyes widened in confusion.

“This tile, you can only use it after you return safely… after you become Empress,” Xie Wan smiled like a cunning old fox who had gotten her way.

Anyu was speechless for a moment.

She even said ‘return safely’, not ‘return victorious’.

Anyu’s heart ached slightly, but her face was serious. “Will Your Majesty wear it for me to see then?”

Xie Wan was startled, then suddenly laughed.

That laugh was like a spring breeze, almost impossible to grasp.

“Alright.”

“Let alone just that item, even the others from the General Affairs Office… I’ll indulge you in everything.”