บท 60: Agree or not

Liu Hui Ying was simply lost for words, it was one thing for them to marry off a seventeen-year-old to a man but it was a completely different thing for them to expect her to get pregnant with her petite body. Where was she supposed to carry a baby? 

She looked down at her tiny waist which was so small that it could not even fit her daily meals before she cleared her throat and shyly replied to the Empress Dowager, " I will try to make you proud, your majesty." 

Earlier Qui Ai has told her that Empress Dowager was a woman who hated anyone crossing her, and that was why she decided to keep her mouth tightly shut. As much as Liu Hui Ying hated the old woman who was pressuring her into attracting the Emperor's attention and getting pregnant as soon as possible, she was smart enough to sense that Empress Dowager was a rather paranoid and stiff woman.