“You…come this way,” the senior man said suddenly.
“You mean…me?” I asked in slight confusion as I pointed to myself. Did he mean me?
“Yes, you. Come here with me,” the man replied in a desperate voice as he beckoned me to follow him with his hand.
Hesitantly, I started to follow him. I didn’t know where he was leading me, but he was leading me away from the group of women. I looked back over my shoulder as the group of women walked further away in the other direction. Where is he taking me?
“The Emperor has graciously decided to let you stay in the White Camellia palace. You should consider yourself extremely lucky to have earned yourself such a reward on your first day at the Grand Palace,” the man explained as if to answer my unasked question.
Not that I knew what the White Ca
