A-Xiang was predictably excited about the news she was going to be an aunt, although confused about how it was possible.
Chu Yun smiled kindly at her. "Your brother and I like each other very much, and so the heavens have granted us this blessing." If Xiao Zai noticed how his voice wavered when he said 'liked' he didn't let it show.
The truth was that Xiao Zai was still reeling from their conversation. Xiao Zai's declaration kept rattling around in his mind, wreaking destruction through his scrambled thoughts.
Sometime along the way, in the short span of time they had been married, Chu Yun became hopelessly enraptured by him. It still seemed hard to believe. He had known it for a while but it made him go warm inside all the same.
The Xiongnu were a nomadic people of ancient China. Their representation in this novel is purely fictional, once again, and doesn't reflect real historic events.