The Majesty Has Arrived

15

Tears of helplessness betrayed Renai’s eyes as women washed her body with milk. She failed to fall for the fact that this was the same man who she was friends with for years. He was going to snatch her virtue and no one around her would be audacious enough to voice against the injustice. In fact, these people were also those who direly needed justice like herself.

A warm splash of milk cascaded on her shoulder, causing her eyes to shut close. It was an order from the king to prepare ‘his mistress’ for tonight. More tears fell over this thought. They thoroughly scrubbed her body and took her to another room after wrapping her in a towel. There were groups of professional women standing in her waiting. Once she sat on the stool before a mirror, they began fixing her face with products she had never seen in her life.

Basina attended to her hair while others did her nails and body. One of the women came inside the dressing room to hand Basina a bottle containing fragrance. It was al