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Maomao stood there in front of the emperor mouth agape.
Now it isn’t like her to show this much of a reaction to anything her superiors would tell her, because she is just a lowly servant girl, but what she just heard said to her, and the other ladies in waiting, was just so absurd, so unrealistic, so unbelievable that she nearly told the emperor to, for lack of better phrasing, “Be so for real right now”.
“Uhm… sir, Lady Gyokuyou, can you please repeat that? I’m not sure I heard right.”
“Oh, well I’d thought as much with this decree, and I expected as much from the other ladies but you Maomao?” the emperor looked at her, almost disappointed that his homegirl wasn’t with him on this. “Well as I said, me and the consorts have been talking and we’ve come to a decision. I can’t possibly be with all my consorts everyday, nor when they need me for their ‘needs’ so we’ve come to a solution. Since only eunuchs and women are allowed into the rear palace—plus it’s a huge pain in my ass if they get pregnant by someone that isn’t me when here—it came to us that the consorts have some people right here who can come to their needs when they need their needs met: you ladies. Now there are some more semantics to this but in general what’s happening is that I’m going to push lesbianism a little more after having talked with Consort Loulan and—(sadly mumbled as to not make Gyokuyou jealous)why did she have to leave—Lady Ah Duo.”
“Dear, I think you’re skipping over some important points, and I’ll see you tonight about that last comment”, Lady Gyokuyou commented. “Basically, you also become mine, practically owned by me for my use, adorable wouldn’t it be.” She then continued to hold the emperor’s arm, cooing to him about what she’ll do to him tonight and that she just couldn’t wait to use her girls anyway she wants, truly letting the dom in her seep out.
There stood in shock of knowing what they just heard wasn’t a misunderstanding Maomao, Hongniang, Yinghua, Guiyuan, and Ailan shared a look in between each other of pure confusion on how this even happened and fear of what was coming for them in the future. The last three did pretty much the same between themselves with Haku-u, Koku-u, and Seki-u only looking over to Maomao to see if she had any idea what was going on.
“Now don’t worry, I can see you ladies in waiting already thinking about it really hard but you won’t be subject to anything you don’t explicitly say you’re willing to, not only because you’re already contracted and it’s a huge legal mess to do that, but also because I care and don’t want to do anything like the man who I shan’t name.”
As much as that did help ease their minds a little it wasn’t by much, though they were all relieved they had an out if they needed it.
“Also I mentioned it to Jinshi and he absolutely broke down, something about how it should've been him not me.” Giggling as she said all of that—mostly to convince Maomao—Gyokuyou made a gesture for the lot of them to leave as she and the emperor had things to do before he left for the next few months on a diplomatic mission, and by the sounds she made as they left she was going to drain that man dry in the place where she had more power over him, “Now there’s this new trick Maomao showed me that you’ll lo-”. The door slammed shut behind them—and good riddance for that—now the ladies just had to head to bed trying to imagine what may or may not lay in store for them in the approaching days, and whether they might even enjoy it.