"When we return to the Capital, shouldn't Aran leave your Prince's Estate to await her marriage? It wouldn't be proper for you two to continue living under the same roof. Once we're back in the Capital, I will find a fine residence for her and bestow a title upon her!" As the guards were pitching tents at nightfall and Aran was busy preparing the evening meal, Emperor Chujing pulled Chu Hengyuan aside to share his plans.
"Father, you don't need to trouble yourself with this. She will stay right with me and go nowhere else until our wedding," Chu Hengyuan replied, thinking his father was meddling needlessly. Why on earth should he and Aran separate when they were living together perfectly well? What was wrong with her staying at his estate?
"It's inauspicious! Where has anyone ever heard of an engaged couple still living together? Aren't you afraid people will make a laughingstock of you?" Emperor Chujing argued that it violated ritual and brought bad luck.
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