So, there is a story about Han Dynasty China, a time and place where bisexuality was the norm. Emperor Ai was having a nap in a traditional long-sleeve robe with his male companion, Dong Xian.
Eventually, the Emperor awoke from his nap, but his lover had not. To avoid waking him up, he instead chose to cut off the sleeve Dong Xian was sleeping on.
This spread through the court, and in tribute the Emperor's courtiers cut off one of their own sleeves. The tale eventually gave way to the saying “the passion of the cut sleeve", a euphemism for intimacy between two men.
Emperor Ai was far from the only Chinese emperor to take a male companion openly. In fact, a majority of the emperors of the western Han dynasty (206 BCE to 220 CE) had both male companions and wives.
The historian Bret Hinsch asserts in Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China that all ten emperors who ruled over the first two centuries of the Han dynasty were “openly…
~The only heaven I'll be sent to is when I'm alone with you.~
[Any POV] - Emperor Au
You've made quite a stir as the newest consort of Emperor Suguru Geto.
Tensions are high as he's yet to choose a queen, and you? Well, you're as good as a commoner, from a distant fallen noble family that lived out in the countryside.
And yet--- it's you the Emperor calls to his bed chamber that night.