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Song Yizhou returned to the mansion after dark. Lin Yi had prepared a banquet at the mansion. He stayed in the palace all day. After leaving the palace in the evening, he went straight to Lin's mansion.
It turned out that Lin Yan was not there. Zhou Ningning said: "My sister said she had something urgent to do during the day, and I forgot to remind her that there was a banquet in the evening. She must have been busy and forgot."
Song Yizhou frowned. The shadow guard suddenly appeared in the dark and whispered something in his ear. His face changed and he left after saying "You guys eat first".
"Why are these two not here?" Lin Yi complained.
Zhou Ningning said worriedly: "I hope nothing will happen."
"Don't worry, if anything really happens, Yizhou will tell you," Lin Yi said.
"That's right," Zhou Ningning thought it made sense.
"Come, come, have a drink, and celebrate our champion together."
The secret guards of the Regent's Palace had been watching Lin Yan for the whole day. The prince had already said that Miss Lin could come and go freely, and informed the palace guard Ah Qi of this matter.
Ah Qi didn't pay much attention to it at first, but Lin Yan stayed in the wine room for the whole day, and Ah Qi saw that she was drinking all the time. He wanted to report to the prince, but the prince was in the palace and he couldn't enter the palace without a token.
Seeing that Miss Lin was just drinking and there was nothing unusual, Ah Qi felt relieved. However, he found that she had been drinking non-stop. Ah Qi felt something was wrong and hurried to report it when he heard the news that the prince was in Lin's mansion.
When Song Yizhou returned home, he saw Lin Yan surrounded by a pile of wine jars. She was leaning against the wall and had fallen asleep at some point. Seeing that there was nothing unusual about her except her flushed cheeks, Song Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
He walked forward and squatted, trying to take the wine out of her hand, but he couldn't get it out. Song Yizhou looked at her helplessly.
The candlelight in the room illuminated Lin Yan's face particularly clearly. Noticing the traces of tears on his face, Song Yizhou was startled and said with concern: "What sad thing has happened to you that makes you drink alone here?"
As he spoke, he brushed his index finger across her cheek, wiping away the tears.
Lin Yan just woke up and subconsciously held Song Yizhou's wrist tightly. After seeing who was coming, he let go of his hand and raised the wine jar to drink without saying a word.
Song Yizhou stopped him and said gently: "You've drunk enough. If you drink any more, you'll be drunk. If you have anything sad, tell me."
"Azhou, I saw my parents." Lin Yan's tone was flat, and it was hard to show her emotion, but her red eyes were enough to show her sadness at the moment.
"Your parents..." Song Yizhou was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that she had been brooding over her parents for so many years, and sighed, "Ayan, they are not worth your sadness."
"Azhou, I have always wondered why I, their daughter, annoy them so much and even want them to die. I have been thinking about this question for more than ten years and still can't figure it out." The tears in Lin Yan's eyes flowed down her cheeks and onto her clothes.
"I just had a dream. In my dream, before my master took me to Nanshan, I went back to see them. Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, I heard a bloody truth: they are not my biological parents." Lin Yan laughed sarcastically, "It turns out that they treated me like this because I am not their daughter."
In the past, she consciously stopped herself from thinking about them, but after being picked up by her master, she forced herself not to recall them, so that she never remembered the truth that they were not her parents.
Now that she was drunk, she remembered it.
Song Yizhou was surprised, "Isn't that a good thing? Maybe your parents..."
Before he could finish, Lin Yan interrupted him and sneered, "They don't want a daughter like me either. When I was born, they swapped my parents' children just because I was a girl."
"So no one has ever cared about my birth. My parents who gave birth to me and raised me wished that I had never come into this world." There was no light in Lin Yan's eyes, filled with endless sadness.
Song Yizhou sat in front of her, took Lin Yan into his arms, and said softly: "Not all parents in this world love their children. At least you are unlucky and met him by chance, but God made you meet me, Lin Yi, Ningning. We are all your family. Don't be sad for those who are not worthy."
Lin Yan understood the principle, but when it happened to her, the knives slashed at her uncontrollably and she couldn't avoid it no matter what.
Lin Yan gently pushed Song Yizhou away, opened another jar of wine and handed it to him: "Drink with me for a while longer." After drinking enough, you will forget about it.
Song Yizhou knew that he couldn't do anything to her. No one could stop her from drinking, so he stopped trying to stop her and drank with her.
She drank too much today. Lin Yan's eyelids trembled and she fell forward. Song Yizhou quickly supported her and held her shoulders with his hands.
Lin Yan looked up and their eyes met. Song Yizhou swallowed and his heart skipped a beat.
It was too late, so Song Yizhou planned to carry Lin Yan to the guest room in the mansion and help her up.
Lin Yan drank too much and felt very dizzy. Song Yizhou's handsome face appeared in front of her. Somehow, she seemed to be possessed. She brushed away his hand and put her arms around Song Yizhou's neck.
In his astonished gaze, she kissed him.
The two of them pressed their lips against each other. It happened so suddenly that before Song Yizhou could react, Lin Yan had already climbed onto him.
Song Yizhou looked calm and composed, but in fact, his heart was filled with turmoil. However, he did not show it on his face. He gently carried Lin Yan to the room next to his dormitory.
Most of the servants in the mansion had gone to bed, so he ordered Xiaoqi to cook some sobering soup. If he didn't drink the soup, Lin Yan would probably have a headache tomorrow.
While waiting for the sobering soup, Song Yizhou sat in front of Lin Yan's bed, his body stiff, staring at her lips motionlessly, recalling the scene just now.
Lin Yan's lips were very soft. The moment their lips touched, the distance between them was closer than ever before. He could clearly feel her breath.
His face was getting hotter and hotter, and as if possessed by some unknown force, Song Yizhou slowly approached Lin Yan.
"Your Highness, the sobering soup is ready." Xiao Qi pushed the door open and saw the scene inside the room. He quickly took out a hand to cover his eyes: "Damn you, I didn't mean to disturb you..."
"Get out!" Song Yizhou's voice sounded, and when you listened carefully, there was a hint of anger in it.
Xiao Qi left as if he was running for his life, and almost forgot about the hangover soup. He hurried back and put the soup on the table.
Song Yizhou exhaled. It was a close call. He almost lost control of himself...
He shook his head to sober himself up, walked forward and picked up the hangover soup. The freshly made soup was still very hot, so he blew on it a few more times before feeding it into Lin Yan's mouth.
After feeding Lin Yan the sobering soup, Song Yizhou wiped his face, covered him with a blanket and left.
Instead of returning to his dormitory, he went to the study, lit the lamp, and began to review memorials.
Song Yizhou wanted to use this method to make himself forget the previous scene, but the scene of their lips touching played on his mind countless times, and he could not forget the feeling no matter what.
He murmured to himself, "Song Yizhou, ah Song Yizhou, Ah'an is drunk, are you drunk too? It's just an accident, don't think about it anymore."
Unfortunately, his persuasion was of no use to him. He was upset all night and stayed in the study until dawn, while Lin Yan slept exceptionally soundly.
When the sky brightened, the sunlight shining on Lin Yan's face woke her up. She propped herself up and looked at the unfamiliar environment around her. She calmed down and realized that she had been drinking at Azhou's place yesterday.
She sat up and rubbed her eyebrows. She drank with Azhou last night, and then, what happened next? She thought to herself: "Am I drunk?"
The taste of the hangover soup still lingered in my mouth. No wonder my head didn’t hurt. I chuckled and said, “He’s so thoughtful.”
Lin Yan pushed open the door and asked the maid who was sweeping the door. When she learned that Song Yizhou was in the study, she went straight to find him.
"Azhou, when did I fall asleep last night?" Lin Yan pushed open the door of the study and asked.
Song Yizhou was caught off guard by Lin Yan's arrival. His hand holding the brush trembled, and he pretended to be calm and said, "I fell asleep drunk last night, so I carried you to the wing room of my house."
"Oh," Lin Yan responded to indicate that he understood. He shifted his gaze to Song Yizhou's face and asked in confusion, "Azhou, why is your face so red?"
The ink from the brush smudged a large black area on the paper, but the person who caused it was completely unaware and was only thinking about how to explain it, "It's probably too hot."
This flawed answer made Lin Yan frown and look at him suspiciously. Song Yizhou changed the subject: "You must be hungry. Go wash up first. I'll ask the servants to order breakfast."
Lin Yan was taken to the bathroom by the maid in the mansion to wash up. She washed her face and sat in front of the mirror to put on her makeup.
Looking at herself in the mirror, something flashed through Lin Yan's mind. She carefully recalled last night. She seemed to be very dizzy, and then, she fell down and was helped up by Azhou.
Then...
Realizing what had happened, Lin Yan touched her mouth and instantly understood why Song Yizhou was so abnormal this morning, but there was no shyness in her eyes at all. The corners of her mouth curled up and her eyes rolled around.
At this time, the servants had brought up breakfast. Lin Yan sat down and looked at the dark circles under Song Yizhou's eyes, "Azhou, you didn't sleep well last night."
"Oh, yes." Song Yizhou was caught off guard by Lin Yan's sudden question.
Lin Yan lowered her eyelids to hide the smile in her eyes. She had heard from the servants in the mansion that Song Yizhou had not slept all night and the light in the study was on all night.
She didn't expose him. She picked up a bun and took a bite, then pretended to be casual and said, "Azhou, did I do anything inappropriate after I got drunk last night?"
Song Yizhou was drinking porridge. He choked and started coughing when he heard Lin Yan say that. It took him a long time to recover: "No...no."
"No," a cunning light flashed in Lin Yan's eyes, "That's really strange, I seemed to dream that your face was very close to me, and I thought I bullied you after getting drunk."
Song Yizhou didn't dare to respond and tried hard to control his expression, fearing that Lin Yan would remember something else.
Looking at Song Yizhou like this, Lin Yan stopped teasing him and suddenly felt depressed.
After knowing that she liked Azhou, she originally planned to express her feelings to him directly, but when she thought about what happened in the dream, she felt a little depressed. She was angry that Azhou obviously liked her, so why didn't he express his feelings to her until he died in the dream.
After that, the two of them didn't speak again, and the atmosphere at the table became inexplicably more depressing. Song Yizhou felt that Lin Yan was a little depressed and thought that she was still thinking about her parents.
He comforted her, "Ayan, don't worry about your parents anymore. When you see them in the future, just pretend you have never seen them before. Don't be sad for them."
"I know, I just felt upset when I suddenly saw them yesterday. Don't worry, I won't do that to them in the future." Lin Yan's emotions came and went quickly. He drank yesterday because he felt unbalanced when he saw that family and thought of his childhood self.
It unexpectedly reminded him of the things he had forgotten after he had a fever, and Lin Yan's obsession with that family completely dissipated.
Since she was not their daughter, there was no need for her to be sad about it. As for her biological parents, let alone her, she had never thought about looking for them, and even hoped that she would not know of their existence in this life.
She was originally still angry with Song Yizhou, but after hearing his worried voice, the anger in her heart subsided. At this moment, Lin Yan really wanted to ask Song Yizhou why he liked her but didn't tell her.
However, Lin Yan did not ask. She was afraid that Azhou was hiding something from her and that Azhou would not admit that he liked her, so she wanted to find out what was bothering Azhou first.
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