Mei Ruan: April 18th, 20XX
"Pleasure to meet you, your highness. My name is Mei Ruan. I would assume you know why I'm here, but you've yet to speak a single word on the matter. What do you think about all this, your highness?"
I spoke as calmly as possible and tried to put him at ease, but he tensed up at the question, and his eyes roamed around the empty room. Before I could change the question, he suddenly beamed a bright smile at me and responded in a dismissive tone, as if the topic at hand had nothing to do with him.
"Does it really matter what I think about it?"
That bothered me a lot.
It shouldn't have since it sounded like he didn't plan on making things difficult for me, but I didn't like the idea of having such a one-sided union.
"Aren't you worried I'll mistreat you? Or w
