Now feeling "impatient and irritable," he had no interest in dealing with state affairs and it was just the right time to spend with his Little Concubine.
He sat on the dressing stool, holding Lian Hua on his lap, and flipped through her morning's accomplishments.
Lian Hua joyfully introduced to him what she had written, flipping through the pages and explaining as she went.
The Emperor saw the recently written phrase "imposing appearance" with an additional symbol next to it and couldn't figure it out.
On this copybook, he had noticed yesterday that some phrases had symbols next to them, some with one symbol, others with two or three symbols.
The reason they were called symbols was that they all shared a common feature: each had a point protruding forward and a hook curved backward.
