The Empress giggled girlishly, "Look how scared you are. The Emperor has personally decreed that you are to teach the Princess poetry and prose."
"If the Princess doesn't listen, am I allowed to 'discipline' her?" he asked with a wicked grin.
The Empress pursed her lips and gave him a spectacularly beautiful eye-roll. "If the Princess submits to you, that’s your ability. If she doesn’t, you can only blame your own incompetence."
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