It was a stormy night in the palace. Jinshi was tucked snugly into his bed. He should have been sleeping, but he was awake. The fake eunuch had a serious problem, he really needed to pee. He cursed himself for not letting Suiren regularly keep a close stool (a chair with a chamber pot inside) or even a matong (a large wooden bucket with a lid used as a portable toilet) in his room. He knew the reason though, he thought it was too germy, so he only let her bring the close stool in when he was sick. He normally didn’t mind leaving his room to use the toilet, but the stormy night was different.
Jinshi wanted to stay cozy in bed but a damp bedsheets was something that he didn’t want Suiren to discover, as she would lecture him like crazy for putting off relieving himself for so long. Also a wet bed would no longer be cozy, he would need to get out of bed, leave his room, find guards to escort him to the closest toilet, use said toilet and then walk back to his room, and head back to bed and go back to sleep. He would bring his umbrella so that way he wouldn’t need to worry about getting wet so that was one less concern. The whole operation should only take ten minutes in total.
The fake eunuch climbed out of bed and put his slippers on. He put an outer robe over his nightclothes to add a layer of warmth. The room was dark but he had a small lantern burning to give him some light as we went to find his umbrella.
As he moved around the room the fake eunuch felt his bladder grow painfully heavy, he really needed to piss soon.
Once he grabbed his umbrella, Jinshi headed towards the door of his room for the most awkward part of the ritual asking the night guard to accompany him to the toilet. Totally awkward but unfortunately standard for members of the royal family. They weren’t allowed to go anywhere without an escort, not even the toilet.
Jinshi carefully opened his door to be eye to eye with his night guard. It would be far less awkward if Basen was his guard, but unfortunately for Jinshi Basen was off duty until the morning.
“Is everything alright, Master Jinshi?” The guard asked. He was not used to seeing the fake eunuch out and about this time of night, essentially with a storm going on.
“Um, yes,” Jinshi began awkwardly, “but-would-you-please-accompany-me-to-the-toilet” he rushed the second part out, just wanting to get over it. Hearing the rain louder now that he was outside of his room, made his need to pee continue to grow worse.
“This way,” The guard directed, as he grabbed a lantern and Jinshi’s umbrella. Even though the walk from Jinshi’s bedroom to the toilet was covered, the rain was still blowing under it so the umbrella gave him an extra barrier of protection.
If Jinshi didn’t make it to the toilet quickly he wouldn’t need to worry about keeping his bedrobes dry. The fake eunuch felt like the walk to the toilet grew longer in the middle of the night than we when went there during the day.
Jinshi saw the toilet building come into view, he was almost there. He gave a quick knock on the door making sure it was empty. He didn’t expect anyone to be in there as this toilet was only for him and his staff’s use, he still wanted to avoid any awkward encounter. Hearing no response, Jinshi went ahead and opened the door, grabbed the lantern and walked inside.
Since he had the rain to block the sound Jinshi didn’t need to worry about having to keep up his fake eunuch act and he could stand to piss. He undid the front of his night-robes, untied his underwear and aimed his piss stream down the toilet hole. He sighed as he peed, the relief felt amazing.
Jinshi kept peeing for two whole minutes, then he re-fastened his clothing and headed to the wash basin to wash his hands.
Now to make the journey back to his bed but Jinshi was sure it would feel shorter now that he got his relief.
