"Shu'er, there's something I've always wanted to confess to you." He spoke nervously, his fingers tangling around her hair, making circles, his nose lightly touching her face, greedily breathing in her fragrance.

Li Shushu smiled and thought: Is this guy finally willing to talk?

"What?" She replied lazily, pretending to be clueless, looking at him innocently with her peach blossom eyes.

"About that night, the aphrodisiac..." He rarely looked away.

She stretched out her slender white jade finger and pressed it against his lips. "Your Highness, don't tell me yet. Let me guess... did you give yourself that medicine?"

In fact, later that day, she figured it out:

He is a prince who has survived so many intrigues and deceptions. Moreover, he is in the palace. How could he be drugged so easily without anyone knowing?

Even if he was drugged, shouldn't he have called the imperial physician first? Why did he call her after he had endured such a state? She wasn't a doctor.

I'm afraid he's using this intentionally to test her.

"How do you know?" he asked in surprise. But that was fine, since he didn't have to explain everything word for word. After all, he had done something wrong and he had always been a little embarrassed to talk about it.

"Shu'er didn't know. I just happened to have a dream about it a few days ago."

"Oh, then Shu'er's dream is really accurate.

Even though I didn’t administer the medicine myself, it was almost the same as if I had done it myself. I knew Bai Bingjing had administered the medicine, but I still drank half of the soup…” He lowered his head, a look of guilt inevitable.

"At the time, I was just greedy and wanted to prove Shu'er's love for me as soon as possible... But I was also worried that Shu'er would be heartless and I would die suddenly, so I only drank half..."

"Did Shu'er's performance meet the standards?"

"Passed, full marks, satisfied! I was so happy! I don't know how to describe my feelings at that time...

But..., does Shu'er blame me, after all...?