"Chenxi, this peach blossom wine is fragrant, mellow and sweet, with a long aftertaste. Don't you really want to try it?" Ye Jingchen asked, holding up a pot of peach blossom wine in the bedroom.
The wine was a gift from the old steward when he left the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion today.
He only realized after bringing the wine back that although the wine pot looked similar to the one used for the Drunken Immortal Brew, it actually had a much larger internal capacity and could hold much more wine.
No wonder Xie Chang'an wouldn't let him touch the wine pot that night at Chang'an Residence!
Xie Chang'an went to great lengths to get him drunk!
"I won't drink!" Chenxi said coldly.
He can't drink alcohol to begin with, let alone this peach blossom wine!
"You don't know how to enjoy life!" Ye Jingchen sighed, poured himself a glass of wine, took a small sip, and looked completely intoxicated.
Chenxi was furious.
"You're the one who suffered because of this wine!" he said, suppressing his anger.
If an ordinary person suffers a loss because of something, even if they don't hate it, they will keep their distance from it. But Ye Jingchen is different; he actually likes it!
They only remember the good deeds, not the bad ones!
Once the wound heals, the pain is forgotten!
"It was Xie Chang'an who plotted against me, what does it have to do with this peach blossom wine?!" Ye Jingchen said dismissively.
He clearly distinguished between the two; he couldn't let Xie Chang'an's scheming ruin this delicious bar.
Besides, Xie Chang'an didn't do anything to him.
Chenxi clenched her fists. "Aren't you afraid he might have tampered with something in here?"
"Didn't it already get tested? There's no poison!" Ye Jingchen said confidently.
Although the wine was a gift from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion would not harm him, for the sake of both him and the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, he had it inspected after bringing it back.
Chenxi was so angry that she didn't want to say anything.
Although Ye Jingchen liked the taste of peach blossom wine, he restrained himself and only drank a small cup before going to sleep.
As he slept, Ye Jingchen felt as if he were being entangled by something, unable to move his hands and feet.
"Dawn, help!" he shouted, but Dawn never appeared.
"Go ahead and shout, even if you shout until your throat is hoarse, no one will come to save you!" A voice suddenly rang in his ear.
The voice was familiar; it was Xie Chang'an.
He then realized that the reason he couldn't move on the dimly lit bed was because his body was tightly bound by Xie Chang'an's hands and feet.
"Xie Chang'an, didn't you say you didn't like me? What are you doing now?" Ye Jingchen asked irritably.
Xie Chang'an's ability to sneak into his bedchamber in the middle of the night is quite impressive!
But what about the dawn? Where did the dawn go?
"Your Highness believed me when I said I didn't like it? When did Your Highness become so naive?" Xie Chang'an pestered him, chuckled softly in his ear, and deliberately blew a breath into his ear.
"Calm down!" Ye Jingchen tried to struggle, but found that he was completely entangled by Xie Chang'an from head to toe and could not move at all.
"If the two of us get together, have you thought about the consequences? Aren't you afraid that my father will destroy your Zhenguo Duke's Mansion?" Ye Jingchen tried to reason with him.
"It's alright. With my current strategy, he can't destroy the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion! In my previous life, he wiped out my entire family. In this life, he's giving me his beloved son in return. Isn't that fair?" Xie Chang'an said, tightening his embrace around the person in his arms.
"I'm not an object, how can I offset this? Besides, I don't like you, we won't be happy together!" After persistent efforts, Ye Jingchen finally freed one of his hands, and he quickly used that hand to push Xie Chang'an's head off his neck.
"Does His Highness really not like me at all? I don't believe it! Let me test His Highness's heart, okay?" Xie Chang'an said, raising his head slightly and bringing his lips closer.
In a panic, Ye Jingchen used the back of his hand to cover Xie Chang'an's mouth.
Then, he felt something wet and soft gently lick the back of his hand.
Upon realizing that he had been licked by something, Ye Jingchen felt as if he had been struck by lightning, and his body trembled.
"Xie Chang'an!" Ye Jingchen shouted angrily, only to realize that there was no Xie Chang'an at all, and everything that had just happened was just a dream.
What bothered him was that he not only had a nightmare about being haunted by Xie Chang'an, but a certain part of his body also reacted.
He was so angry that he punched the bed.
It's all Xie Chang'an's fault for kissing the back of his hand during the day, which caused him to have this dream at night!
"You dreamed about Xie Chang'an?" Just then, Chenxi's soft voice came.
"Why didn't you wake me up when I called you just now?" Ye Jingchen sat up in bed and asked, pointing at Chenxi.
If Chenxi had woken him up immediately, he wouldn't have dreamt about what happened next, and his body wouldn't have reacted.
“You didn’t call me, you called Xie Chang’an,” Chenxi said expressionlessly.
Ye Jingchen: ......
"Get out of here, I don't want to see you right now!" Ye Jingchen said to Chenxi with a cold face.
"Heh—" Chenxi sneered and disappeared.
In the dead of night, only one palace lantern was lit in the bedchamber. Only after parting the bed curtains could some light be seen.
Ye Jingchen originally wanted to ignore the strange feeling on his body and continue sleeping, but the discomfort was too obvious, so he had to get up, take the palace lantern, find a clean set of clothes, and go to the bathhouse connected to the bedroom.
Fortunately, there was always hot water in the bathtub, so he took another shower and changed into clean clothes.
Looking at the soiled clothes he had changed out of, he had an urge to destroy them and cover up the evidence, but it was pointless. Traditional Chinese medicine was profound and his physical condition was clear as soon as Physician Zhang took his pulse.
After lying back in bed, Ye Jingchen couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
He was afraid he would have another strange dream!
"Your Highness? Your Highness, it's time to get up!" A familiar voice called out in my ear.
Ye Jingchen didn't want to pay attention. He had been staying up for a long time before he finally fell asleep. It felt like he hadn't slept for long before he was woken up again.
But the voice calling him to get up was persistent; even if he covered his ears with the blanket, it was no use, the voice kept drilling into his ears.
Ye Jingchen suddenly threw off the covers, sat up in bed, and looked like he wanted to kill someone.
The resentment from not sleeping well, combined with morning grumpiness, erupts in a double whammy.
It took him a while to fully recover and get out of bed.
Palace maids helped him wash, dress, and groom himself.
Fangfei immediately noticed that Ye Jingchen had changed his undergarments; they weren't the ones he wore to bed, but she didn't ask.
On this day, after Ye Jingchen returned to the East Palace from his official duties, even though it wasn't the day for him to have his pulse checked, Imperial Physician Zhang was already waiting for him.
It seems that Fangfei and the others discovered the soiled undergarment.
With a blank expression, he stretched out his hand, allowing Physician Zhang to take his pulse.
"Congratulations, Your Highness! Congratulations on your coming of age!" the old imperial physician said, his eyes brimming with tears.
His Highness the Crown Prince has never been quick to understand, so the imperial physician has been under far more pressure than His Highness the Crown Prince himself!
Now that's good, His Highness the Crown Prince has finally seen the light, and he can finally go and report the good news to His Majesty!
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