When someone made a suggestion, someone else would agree. Soon, the first poem at the dinner was composed by a young lady whom Song Qingxue had never seen before.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of noble ladies and even ministers were all inspired to write poetry.

Song Qingxue sat among a group of intellectuals and felt that she was out of place.

She was somewhat thankful that the original owner was the eldest daughter of the general's mansion. If she was the eldest daughter of a scholarly family, she would probably be sorry to both Li and Du!

The banquet lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour before the third prince, Xiahou Chun, finally arrived.

He was not popular originally, so he did not have a high status in the previous dynasty. Now that he was late, he could not avoid being criticized.

But due to his status, the ministers did not dare to speak easily. Only Xiahou Chongyuan, with a cold face, symbolically rebuked him a few times.

Xiahou Chun's attitude of admitting his mistakes was quite good, and his movements of bowing and saluting were very skillful.

"It was because I didn't calculate the time well that I was delayed. I have admitted my mistake and I hope the emperor and uncle will forgive me."

This was not an important banquet, so naturally no one would hold on to this small mistake, so the little emperor acted as a peacemaker and said, "It's not a big deal, my brother, please take a seat first!"

Xiahou Chun bowed in response, then walked to his seat and sat down.

This little episode was soon suppressed by everyone's poetic inspiration. At this time, someone praised Zhao Wanqiu amid the noise and asked her to compose a poem on the spot.

As the outstanding heroine in the book, Zhao Wanqiu naturally would not miss this opportunity to shine. She had to pretend!

She easily picked up flowers and wine, and unsurprisingly won a lot of praise.

Although she and Zhao Wanqiu could not be the same kind of people, she did have something in her mind, which was something Song Qingxue had to admit no matter what.

However, compared to Zhao Wanqiu, who she had just criticized, Song Qingxue was obviously more interested in the male protagonist Xiahou Chun.

Oh! This grandson dares to come and toast!

She wanted to see how good Xiahou Chun was at pretending!

She watched Xiahou Chun pour a glass of wine for Xiahou Chongyuan, then held up her own glass and said, "Uncle, thank you for not blaming me today."

Xiahou Chongyuan didn't say anything. He picked up the wine glass and was about to drink it, but Song Qingxue suddenly stepped forward to stop him.

"This wine, is it not poisoned?"

Although Song Qingxue stopped Xiahou Chongyuan, her eyes were on Xiahou Chun.

Xiahou Chongyuan glanced at her sideways, somewhat puzzled, and for a moment he had no idea what she wanted to do.

He was not the only one who was surprised by this. Xiahou Chun was also asked a question and became more alert. However, facing Song Qingxue's questioning, he could only smile awkwardly and said weakly: "My princess, you are joking."

Song Qingxue also smiled, "I do like to joke around, I hope the Third Prince doesn't mind."

"Of course I don't blame you." Xiahou Chun responded to her words.

What a good pretense! Song Qingxue secretly complained in her heart, but she continued, "Since it's not poisonous, I won't stop you and your nephew from communicating with each other. But I hope you can be more sensible, Third Prince. After all, there are so many ministers watching here. I am worried that others will think too much and think that you are approaching the Regent for power."

Song Qingxue's words made Xiahou Chun furious, but in order to avoid being exposed, he did not dare to say anything more. He could only swallow his breath and whispered: "Your Highness Princess is worried about this. My original intention was just to toast the Emperor's uncle and then go back."

Hearing this, Song Qingxue smiled and said nothing more, but her eyes never left Xiahou Chun.

Who could have thought that this seemingly cowardly man would one day overthrow Xiahou Chongyuan and become the ruler of the world?

Don't judge a book by its cover. Stupidity can be pretended, as long as the person pretending is smart enough.

Pretending? Overthrowing him and becoming the ruler of the world?

Xiahou Chongyuan heard everything that Song Qingxue was thinking. He followed Song Qingxue's gaze and had more thoughts in his mind.