A quarter of an hour ago, Zhou Huaiyan was still thinking about the Queen and the White Horse Temple. Due to the sudden situation tonight, Zhou Huaiyan drank too much, but he actually had a good alcohol tolerance. He just looked very drunk on the surface, but in fact, he still had a third of clarity in his mind.

This is his habit.

But he didn't expect that it was precisely this three-point clarity that allowed Zhou Huaiyan to clearly recognize what was happening at this moment.

Zhou Huaiyan encountered this for the first time in his two lives. His mind was blank. After a series of extremely complicated brainstorms, he had a vague idea of ​​the answer. Zhou Huaiyan's heart was beating like thunder and he was a little dazed. Perhaps, he should have taken an extra biology course in college in his previous life. He should have also read more rare cases. If so, Zhou Huaiyan felt that he could be calmer now.

"......"

He had forgotten about the White Horse Temple and the Empress. He had even forgotten the unknown secrets from many years ago that he had learned from his uncle tonight. The next second, the boy's finger bones moved slightly and then tightened suddenly. Ah Fei couldn't help but let out a short cry of surprise, and suddenly grabbed the boy's wrist. She was panicked and frightened, and her ears were red. Ah Fei thought that the master gave him the word "Fei" because he regarded him as an object like jade.

It is well known in the capital that the ninth prince Zhou Huaiyan has loved jade since he was a child and is obsessed with it. The jade he wears around his waist is almost always a different one every day.

Ah Fei carefully observed his expression and finally confirmed that apart from shock and confusion, he had no negative emotions such as disgust or nausea. There was absolutely no negative emotion. In fact, he even had a little curiosity because he had discovered something new. The kitten's originally overly nervous and panicked mood finally gradually eased.

Ah Fei also knew that her master liked to appreciate and play with jade.

For example, jade ornaments can be seen everywhere in the house.

For example, the jade ring on the boy’s thumb.

The former is for appreciation, the latter is for fun.

And he was chosen by his master because he had a pair of jade-colored eyes. Perhaps to Zhou Huaiyan, he was no different from those beautiful jades.

Everyone in the capital knew that the Ninth Prince was a lecher. He loved to hang out in places of fireworks and romance, and he had slept with countless beauties and young men. But the actual situation was just the opposite. His mind was blank, and he didn't even know what expression to put on. In fact, Zhou Huaiyan, who had full theoretical knowledge, had absolutely zero practical experience.

【There is nothing strange in the world.】

When he was nervous, his mind would go haywire and all kinds of strange thoughts would pop up. The boy tried hard to find his own reason in alcohol.

Zhou Huaiyan, you have seen the world, so calm down.

The remaining rationality made him understand the abnormality of the kitten's body structure, and also understood why the kitten was so nervous when they first met. But, even if it was so different from ordinary people, there was no need to tell it in this way, or even test it.

However, the boy's complex expression of wanting to say something but hesitating made Ah Fei nervous immediately.

"Master... do you hate it?"

His voice trembled and he looked frightened and embarrassed.

【Disgust?】

Zhou Huaiyan would naturally not discriminate against others because of their physical defects or abnormalities.

"will not."

The boy denied it very firmly this time. Maybe because he drank too much, his face turned red and he suddenly became talkative.

"The human body is made up of genes... well, it's something you can't control. You're just special, not mean, or... disgusting."

The boy blinked slowly, as if trying to calm his dizzy and burning brain. He pretended to be calm and suddenly pulled his hand away.

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan pretended not to hear. He put his hands behind his back and subconsciously wanted to clench them, but froze in the middle. Even though his heart was in a mess, the Ninth Prince still looked serious on the surface.

"A Fei, you have to know..."

The boy held the edge of the pool with his other hand. His dark eyes looked a little blurry due to the alcohol in his body, but he still tried to sort out what he wanted to say in his mind.

"How a person is ultimately defined is not what he is when he is born, but... well, it depends on what he does over the years and what kind of person he eventually becomes."

Zhou Huaiyan gently brushed away the wet hair sticking to the kitten's face. He had already cleaned his teeth when he came back, and now his breath was hot, with only a slight hint of tipsiness.

"People who grow flowers... always like to cultivate all kinds of new varieties of flowers and colors. Animal lovers also love to pursue all kinds of rare and exotic pets. But people... are afraid of and hate people who are different from others."

"The fault is not the one who is different, but ... the people who are afraid that his difference will harm their own interests. They are either jealous or afraid, so they classify the different as different, hoping to ... control and plunder."

Zhou Huaiyan tried hard to explain the psychology of rejecting the different kinds of people, but his mind was fuzzy now and he could only give a general idea.

Finally, he gave up on pursuing strict logic and just rubbed the kitten's head and told him,

"A Fei, it's not your fault."

Zhou Huaiyan had never imagined that he could feed people spiritual chicken soup in such a situation.

and,

——He was not the kind of person who would drink spiritual chicken soup before!!!

In short, the current situation is really weird. It's so weird!

[Sure enough...I drank too much. 】

Zhou Huaiyan subconsciously wiped his face, trying to wake up, but suddenly he smelled an inexplicable breath. Even his fingertips still had a strange feeling.

Zhou Huaiyan: “….”

He seems to have...taken it in the wrong hand.

——I will definitely not drink so much next time.

However, at this moment, Ah Fei was stunned.

He originally thought that if the master didn't dislike it, it would be the best outcome, but he didn't expect that the boy would have such...such thoughts.

She didn't care at all about his vile and dirty body, or even whether she acknowledged him or not.

Denying his weirdness, denying his meanness, and even directly overturning the entire alien race's cognition and definition for hundreds of years.

Ah Fei was a little bit unbelievable. He bit his cheek unconsciously and asked softly,

"......real?"

Perhaps, the master now has no concrete concept and cognition of this strange and dirty him. Zhou Huaiyan was stunned. The effect of alcohol made his reaction half a beat slower than usual.

"......?"

Before he could respond with agreement or refusal, the next second, Ah Fei revealed her most embarrassing, most inferior, and most fearful secret to the boy.

All the misfortunes, sufferings, pains, scorn, insults, and tramplings he had experienced,

——It all originates from this.

In Ah Fei's heart, even his mother's death was ultimately caused by him.

From the day he began to realize that he was different and weird, he felt deeply, deeply inferior because of it.

So even though he can do everything better than anyone else, Ah Fei still feels that she was born lowly and can only be a plaything of others. She deserves to be insulted, ravaged and trampled upon.

This invisible mental shackle is like an iron chain around a dog's neck, locking him tightly in the darkest corner.

He looked up at Zhou Huaiyan's beautiful eyes, who was looking down at him, with his eyes lowered, a hint of drunkenness at the end of his eyes, and stars of water hanging at the end of his long eyelashes.

The glass lamp reflected the water waves, which danced and shone on the boy's beautiful white jade face, as if fine dragon scales had grown on him in an instant.

Strangely handsome, strangely gorgeous, like the Son of God.

At this moment, the Son of God's burning gaze was casually scanning his greatest secret.

The moment the secret that Ah Fei had carefully concealed for more than ten years was finally exposed to the young boy's eyes -

He heard his master say,

"Not strange, very special."

The beautiful Son of God smiled at him with her dark eyes.

"It's also...very beautiful."

Ah Fei was stunned. He used to be extremely disgusted and inferior about his body, eyes, and hair.

——Everything.

When this extreme resentment and inferiority reached its peak, the fifteen-year-old Ah Fei burned to death all the demons who abused him, trained him, and trampled on him.

He even poisoned his throat and crawled into the Zhou people's prisoner cage, hoping to turn himself into their slave, escape from the cold and terrifying snowfield, and hide his most monstrous body.

But now——

Someone discovered his ugly secret and told him seriously,

[A Fei, you are not strange, just special. In fact, you are very beautiful. ]

"......"

The extremely short words were like the sharpest sword in the world, breaking the cold and terrible shackles. Ah Fei suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of relief and warmth.

The kitten was stunned for a moment, and suddenly started crying with a hoarse voice.

The sound sounded like the rough sobbing of a baby animal, soft and gentle, making one's heart tremble. Big tears wet the eyelashes, and the corners of the eyes were smudged with red, like a crabapple bud wet by the rain.

Zhou Huaiyan was a little confused by his crying. He wanted to comfort him, but the kitten grabbed his hand and pulled him over.

"......?"

"???"

Zhou Huaiyan was shocked.

No, weren't they just communicating with each other purely spiritually? ? ?

In this case, he could only pretend to be a master of spiritual chicken soup for five minutes at most, no more. He was silent for a moment, and his tone suddenly hardened.

"let go!"

Ah Fei was immediately panicked, thinking that he was angry because of her presumptuous behavior.

"Master... Master...?"

The hand that was pinching the boy's wrist immediately released it.

Before Ah Fei could kneel down and apologize, she felt as if she had fallen into the water again, but she did not sink, but just floated up and down with the waves. Zhou Huaiyan's fingers were slender and delicate, perhaps because he liked to carve things with a forbidden dagger since he was a child, his fingers were not only beautiful, but also flexible and even particularly powerful.

Although Ah Fei has low self-esteem, she is also very confident in her own skills.

Just like before, when that foreign servant in Xin'an Pavilion spoke rudely to him, he could tolerate being insulted, but if he really started fighting, the other party would be as fragile as an ant in front of him.

However, Ah Fei never imagined that one day he would be rendered defenseless by someone who knew no martial arts.

[Very powerful, worthy of being...the master. ]

Ah Fei suddenly developed a strange admiration for Zhou Huaiyan. The muscles on the back of her feet were unconsciously stretched, just like the bowstring that he had stretched to the limit on the hunting ground that day, straight, thin, and stretched to the extreme, so tight that it caused a very slight tremor.

He was like a fish that was suddenly stranded on the beach. He had to take deep breaths due to lack of oxygen, but a hand was holding his breath tightly. He could only tremble out a few short, animal-like sounds from his throat. On the beach, waves of water came up and then receded.

The stranded fish can only take a very brief breath in the tide, but eventually they can only lie limp on the beach, feeling the water quickly draining away from deep inside their bodies.

Bang--!!!

Bang, bang, bang——!

At midnight on New Year's Eve, fireworks were set off in the palace according to custom.

When in exile, only the royal family could occasionally see those rare, fleeting, and beautiful things.

When Ah Fei was very young, she once caught a glimpse of it from a distance.

It's beautiful, all the colorful colors are blooming in the dark sky, so beautiful that it's out of reach.

That was what his mother took him to see. They hid in a corner among a pile of miscellaneous items, like the lowest slaves, secretly trying to peek at things that were only enjoyed by the nobles.

At that time, his mother said to him,

【A Fei, hide. 】

【Don't let anyone notice that you are different. 】

[Hide well, hide well... Only in this way can you live well. 】

But later, Ah Fei failed to hide well, so he was forced into a slave camp, where he was branded like an animal and taught to be inferior. Later, someone took him away. Ah Fei thought he had escaped from the mire, but he was just going from one hell to another.

So after he escaped from that hell, he wanted to hide himself.

Just like what my mother said, he hid well and was not discovered by anyone. But his appearance was too obvious, so he could only hide in the Zhou people's prisoner-of-war camp, even if he had to do the most difficult hard labor, even if his voice was hoarse from poison, as long as... as long as he was not discovered, it would be fine.

Undetectable...

But now that she was discovered, what Ah Fei feared did not happen.

In a trance, he recalled the past, his mother, and the night when he secretly peeked at the nobles' fireworks.

But Hongdou said that the fireworks bought by foreigners in the past were just junk. The most beautiful fireworks in the Great Zhou Dynasty were naturally the fireworks set off in the imperial palace during the annual festivals, which were extremely beautiful.

Ah Fei originally thought that he would wait until the New Year's Eve to take a good look at it, but now he missed it.

Or rather, it’s not a miss.

He shuddered suddenly and curled up tightly. His beautiful back, like a long bow, kept shaking. In a daze, it seemed that large pieces of colorful fireworks exploded in his mind.

——It was released by his master himself.

But, but this is not enough.

"Master, do you still remember what you said, when Ah Fei's voice... gets better, she will imitate the meow of a cat for you."

The young man from a different race spoke in a hoarse voice and reached out to grab Zhou Huaiyan's shoulders.

It's like a humble dodder trying to climb the most beautiful tree on the top of a snowy mountain.

He leaned close to the boy's ear,

"A Fei has been practicing quietly for a long time. Master, do you want to listen now?"

Zhou Huaiyan was slightly startled, and finally sighed and responded in a low voice,

".......good."

......

[Next day]

"Your Highness, it's time to get up."

The voice of Red Bean woke the boy from his dream!

The beautiful and lingering dream suddenly dissipated and disappeared, and the gorgeous bed curtains came into view. He sat up suddenly, breathing rapidly. Noticing the unusual movement behind the bed curtains, Hongdou immediately opened the curtains, but saw the boy's chest heaving, sweat on his forehead, and his hands covering his face, so he couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

The maid wiped his sweat, her tone was worried and nervous.

"But you had a nightmare?"

It was indeed a dream, but not a nightmare, but the kind of...

Zhou Huaiyan was speechless, and just waved his hands to indicate that he was fine. However, the sudden awakening made him a little dazed. He subconsciously wanted to recall, but the things in his mind suddenly dissipated like smoke being waved away.

However, I could vaguely recall something.

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan touched his chest. His heartbeat was so fast and heavy that it hurt his chest. His Adam's apple rolled, and the boy's voice was obviously hoarse when he spoke.

"......water."

Red Bean hurried away,

"yes."

He rubbed his aching temples and felt extremely dizzy, with his mind in a mess.

——A very familiar hangover symptom.

"Tsk, I drank too much last night..."

Zhou Huaiyan took the warm tea brought by Hongdou and drank it in one gulp. His dry and hot throat finally felt much better. He tried to recall what happened last night, sporadically, like a film that had been edited into a mess.

"What time is it?"

"It's one o'clock in the afternoon. I have prepared the meal."

Hongdou poured another cup, Zhou Huaiyan took it and nodded nonchalantly. After a pause, he asked casually,

"Where's Ah Fei?"

"In reply to your Highness, I went to practice martial arts with Master Wei as usual."

Ever since Ah Fei started practicing martial arts, she would leave before dawn every day and come back only at dinner time, working diligently every day.

Obviously, it was no different from usual, but Zhou Huaiyan was stunned and suddenly doubted his memory.

【Going to practice martial arts? 】

He was a little dazed, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether the picture in his mind really happened last night or was just a dream. After all, if such a ridiculous thing really happened between the two of them last night, how could Ah Fei go to practice martial arts so early in the morning?

Thinking of this, Zhou Huaiyan couldn't help but cover his face, and he could clearly feel his hot and rapid breathing in his palms.

——How could I have such a dream? !

Hongdou noticed his strangeness but didn't ask.

"Is Your Highness going to get up?"

"Um......"

Zhou Huaiyan had just lifted the quilt when he suddenly realized something and pressed it down again. There was even a hint of panic in his movements.

Red beans are amazing.

"Your Highness, what's wrong?"

"......It's OK."

Zhou Huaiyan pretended to be calm.

"You go out first, and those people outside, all retreat outside the palace. I want to be alone for a while."

[Your Highness...]

Hongdou noticed that he changed his name unconsciously.

[The master is nervous again, what is he nervous about? ]

The maid didn't understand what was going on, but she still left as she was told.

Zhou Huaiyan's whole body was stiff. He listened carefully. After making sure that everyone had left, he slowly lifted the quilt and lowered his head.

[It turned out to be...]

Zhou Huaiyan closed his eyes, feeling a sense of shame for no reason. It seemed that it was indeed a dream. How much alcohol did he drink last night to have such a dream?

After lying stiffly on the bed for a while, the boy immediately got up and changed his pajamas. As for the pair of pants he took off, he put them in the charcoal brazier and burned them, destroying all traces.

After that, Zhou Huaiyan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He opened the window and waited for a long time until the smell had dissipated, then he called the palace maids in to help him wash and dress.

As usual, he still maintained his terrible schedule of sleeping until noon and having brunch together.

But today's dishes look... a little strange.

Zhou Huaiyan frowned and tapped the soup in front of him with his chopsticks.

"What is this?"

The Omiya excitedly introduced it,

"This is the deer antler and ox bone marrow stewed specially for Your Highness today. I have asked Doctor Li, and these two things stewed together are the best for strengthening the kidneys..."

“Ahem…!!!”

Hearing the last three words, Zhou Huaiyan immediately burst into a violent cough. This made Hongdou very anxious, and she hurried to calm down her master. It took her a long time to calm down.

The boy pushed her away suddenly, his tone unconsciously full of shame.

"How, how can you let me eat this?!!"

"Don't worry, Your Highness,"

Hongdou hurried to coax her master, but when it came to this, the maid's tone became a little angry.

"It's all Ah Fei's fault. She lingered around Your Highness for so long last night and didn't leave until dawn. She was simply too spoiled by His Highness and became more and more lawless."

Zhou Huaiyan was stunned, but his maid was still chattering.

The palace servants standing guard outside the palace all lowered their heads, their eyes watching their noses and their noses watching their hearts, but their ears were erected high.

The maid said as she served Zhou Huaiyan some soup.

"I have already taught Ah Fei a lesson this morning. It is a great blessing for him to be favored by his master, but he still has to take care of His Highness's health..."

"Shut up."

"......"

The eldest maid fell silent instantly.

Zhou Huaiyan's temples were throbbing as he listened, but behind all these words there was a message -

The images in his mind were not dreams.

【…It’s not a dream, it’s real.】

"......"

Zhou Huaiyan's mind quickly went through what happened last night, and he felt his brain starting to burn.

He remembered that he went to sleep at dawn and had a dream. It turned out that Ah Fei did not even sleep but went straight to the martial arts arena.

"......"

In a sense, my uncle might be right. Practicing martial arts can indeed strengthen your body.

He clearly remembered that Ah Fei was crying and begging him. But she actually still had the energy to practice martial arts???

Zhou Huaiyan suddenly felt a little depressed.

In fact, one night of absurdity was enough to prove that the Ninth Prince was not weak in that aspect, but compared with Ah Fei who not only did not sleep but also practiced martial arts, he was outdone.

And the contrast is terrible.

Zhou Huaiyan supported his forehead.

No wonder Hongdou looked like "My little prince was exhausted last night, he needs to make up for it quickly" today.

......No!

No!

Zhou Huaiyan turned around suddenly.

But even if he didn't do anything with Ah Fei last night, he would still sleep until this late on weekdays. As a dandy prince, he doesn't need to practice martial arts every day.

Ah Fei is so diligent that she abuses herself and insists on going to the martial arts arena. This only proves that Xiao Mao is extremely diligent and hardworking, but it does not prove that he is incapable? ! !

After figuring this out, Zhou Huaiyan subconsciously explained to Hongdou immediately -

Your master is not weak at all in that aspect!

No need to replenish at all!!!

However, before he could say anything, the boy was stunned again.

——He is the ninth prince, what is the point of explaining to a palace maid?

So, Zhou Huaiyan put down his chopsticks and snorted coldly,

"Your Highness does not need it, retreat!"

Hongdou immediately did as she was told.

Finally finishing a bad meal, Zhou Huaiyan lazily lay on the couch in the afternoon and started carving small things again. This time he didn't carve wood, but a piece of white jade.

The Forbidden Dagger and Duke Wei's Sky-Breaking Halberd are of the same origin. They can melt iron like mud and can carve even hard jade.

Last night, it was confirmed that the Queen had a connection with the White Horse Temple. Zhou Huaiyan felt that he was about to sort out the web in the fog. The Queen... maybe it was for her dead little prince. And the White Horse Temple was named the national temple by the previous emperor, maybe it was not simple. Starting from this past event, maybe he could find out the relationship between her and the White Horse Temple.

Zhou Huaiyan carved something on the white jade one by one, and the messy clues in his mind seemed to gradually become clear.

Hongdou was serving by the side, tending to the camellia flowers that the greenhouse had delivered today. They were blooming gorgeously and very beautiful.

A faint fragrance suddenly filled the bedroom.

"Hongdou, are those people at the White Horse Temple watching us?"

"Yes, I have been watching him since he entered the palace half a month ago. But last night on New Year's Eve, not a single one was missing. The one Ah Fei saw might not have been with the monks who entered the palace from the White Horse Temple half a month ago."

Zhou Huaiyan chuckled.

"It's interesting that the Empress and I have an old relationship with this monk."

As he was carving, the young man suddenly recalled the strange looks the palace servants gave him during lunch. He frowned, and suddenly had some uneasy guesses.

"Hey, Hongdou, who else knows about what happened last night besides you...?"

The maid of honor had served him for more than ten years, so it was normal for her to discover some clues.

However, ordinary palace servants were not allowed to enter the inner chamber of his bedroom. Zhou Huaiyan felt that other people might not know this.

However, Hongdou looked as if it was a matter of course.

“——I know everything.”

Zhou Huaiyan: “….”

"?"

"???"

He sat up suddenly, showing such a shocked expression for the first time.

"How do you know?"

Zhou Huaiyan vaguely remembered that he was afraid that Ah Fei would scream too loudly, so he covered the kitten's mouth. He only let go after Ah Fei started to cry non-stop.

Are the walls of Qiwu Palace so poorly soundproof?

"To reply to your Highness, at dawn this morning, Ah Fei almost missed her time to meet Master Wei, so she ran out in a disheveled state, and...she even wore your Highness's underwear."

The inner garments of the princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty usually have special embroidery on the collar, which makes them easy to identify.

Hongdou paused and added,

"It was dark in the morning, so I didn't see clearly when I was scolding Ah Fei. I didn't hear about it until the news spread throughout the palace at noon."

—Spread throughout the palace?!

Zhou Huaiyan: “…”

【This is really... beautifully done. 】

The young man fell back onto the couch and covered his face with the book. From today on, his reputation as the dissolute and lustful Ninth Prince who was obsessed with foreign slaves was completely established.

——It’s done.

“…Tsk.”

Zhou Huaiyan was not angry, he just thought it was a little funny. Or rather, a little weird.

It turns out that this fake play.....was actually done.

Whatever, just do it.

——It feels good.

Zhou Huaiyan was in a good mood. He threw the book aside and continued to carve the white jade in his hand. Although he drew some patterns on it, he actually hadn't decided what to carve. He just had the habit of carving something when he was thinking about something.

At this time, the maid asked him,

"Your Highness, the camellia is blooming beautifully this year. Would you like to place one in your bedroom to add some bright colors?"

“No need.”

Zhou Huaiyan refused without thinking.

He didn't like to put flowers and plants in his study because they would attract insects. Besides, the things cultivated in the palace were very delicate and needed daily care. He didn't like others coming in and out of his study.

Even though she was a senior maid, Anko would only come in when she had important business.

However, after refusing, Zhou Huaiyan still took a look at the camellia. Just as Hongdou said, the flower was indeed well-maintained. It just hadn't fully bloomed yet.

After being poured with water, one of the prettiest flowers opened slightly, shyly revealing some layers of petals, which were particularly bright red and shimmering with crystal water droplets. It looked a bit like...

An image flashed through the boy's mind, and he finally realized that what the kitten had said about his hair being naturally light actually meant that it was almost non-existent.

He suddenly waved his hand.

"Bring it here, so that Your Highness can have a look."

"yes."

Hongdou was surprised, but she did as she was told.

Zhou Huaiyan reached out and touched the camellia buds that were about to bloom, only to find that the texture was still much worse than before. The young man didn't know what he was thinking of, and his Adam's apple moved slightly. He pretended to be calm and looked away, withdrew his hand, touched the white jade, and kept playing with it. After a long time, he pretended to speak casually,

"Well... Your Highness suddenly feels that the study seems a little monotonous, so let's put a basin in it."

Hongdou, who was about to move the flowers out, said: "......?"

——Your Highness has started to make decisions in a inconsistent manner again.

She remembered that the last time she thought about it so repeatedly was when she saw the "Secret Play of Spring Night".

At that time, His Highness said that he was upset when he saw Ah Fei, but now... shouldn't they have had a great time?

The maiden was confused.

——Why is it still so chaotic?

But no matter what, the master is the master, so she could only do as she was told and carefully moved the camellia in.

Zhou Huaiyan thought about it, and suddenly called the little eunuch Dousha outside the door to come in.

"What do you want, Your Highness?"

Dousha bowed respectfully.

Zhou Huaiyan waved his hand and asked the eunuch to come closer. He subconsciously lowered his voice.

"Go find me some books, um... books that record some people who are different from ordinary people."

【Different from ordinary people? 】

The little eunuch scratched his head.

[Have your interests and tastes reached this point now? ]

"Your Highness, do you want to see some weirdos for fun? A dwarf, or a creature with three heads and six arms, or six fingers?"

"......no."

Zhou Huaiyan supported his forehead,

——Does he look so perverted???

The young man leaned over to the eunuch's ear and whispered a few words.

"Oh~ So His Highness likes this!"

Dousha patted his chest.

"Then I will go right away and bring it back to Your Highness tonight."

[——Tonight?]

Zhou Huaiyan was slightly surprised.

"So soon?"

——It seems that he is in a hurry.

"cough,"

He waved his hands.

"Your Highness, I just wanted to see it on a whim. I don't particularly want to see it, but if you can find it, it will be a reward for you."

Zhou Huaiyan was about to give him the white jade in his hand, but for some reason he paused. In the end, he took out a few gold leaves from the small box beside him and gave them to him.

A few pieces of gold leaves are much more valuable than that piece of white jade used for carving for fun.

The young eunuch accepted the reward and smiled so hard that his eyes were completely blank.

There might be some debate about which palace is the most luxurious and wealthy, but if you were to ask which palace's master is the most generous in giving gifts, it would definitely be the Ninth Prince.

Dousha was overjoyed and kowtowed to express his gratitude.

"Thank you, Your Highness! I will go right away and will be back before dinner!"

——The time suddenly moved forward a lot.

After saying that, he ran out in a puff of smoke.

Zhou Huaiyan shook his head. It turned out that money was the biggest motivation for people to act.

He stroked the round and delicate white jade in his hand, and looked at the pots of camellia outside.

Something seemed to flash through his mind, and the boy suddenly smiled softly, with a hint of color suddenly appearing between his overly delicate eyebrows.

"Well, I finally know what to carve today."

The forbidden dagger spun in a circle between the slender fingers, and finally landed in the center of the white jade, carving it around and outlining the vague shape of overlapping petals.

......

Because he arrived late in the morning, Ah Fei came back later than usual today. He hurried back and didn't eat the meal specially left for him by the kitchen, but went straight back to his own room.

Ah Fei carefully took off his master's inner clothes and folded them up carefully, but he still wore two layers of clothes underneath because he was afraid that his sweat would stain his master's clothes.

The last piece fell off, and the back of the alien boy looked like a beautiful picture of red plum blossoms in the snow. He stroked Zhou Huaiyan's underwear and couldn't help but bury his face in it and took a deep breath. Although it was very faint, it was the smell of the owner. Even himself was stained with the boy's scent last night. Inside and out, it was thoroughly stained and soaked.

——A Fei did it on purpose.

Whether he did it while his master was drunk, or this morning when he was asleep and stole his underwear and ran out, everyone in the palace saw it.

All are...

——Intentional.

Having gone through such harsh and cruel training, it is impossible for the kitten to make such a low-level mistake. He just couldn't help it, couldn't help telling the world that he was finally and completely possessed by his master.

Ah Fei almost buried herself to the point of suffocating.

[What should I do...]

He was so happy, so happy, but also very scared. Because this morning he couldn't help but disobey his master's words again, and acted on his own, showing off his cleverness. With the master's intelligence, when he found out about this, he must have seen through his little tricks at a glance.

But Ah Fei still did it. All day today, his mind was filled with the gorgeous appearance of the young boy. His usually gorgeous but cold face was so gorgeous at that moment that even the sweat dripping from his collarbone looked terribly sexy.

Excitement and fear intertwined together, like two snakes tied in a knot, spitting out cold and bright red tongues in his heart. He didn't know how the master would punish him tonight. Ah Fei thought of the whipping that day, which was very painful, but when he thought of the medicine applied by the master's hand, he felt no pain.

Ah Fei admitted that Zhou Huaiyan's shocking words made a lot of sense, but in her heart she was still willing to kneel down before the young man, be his tool, and use everything those demons had taught her to serve and protect him.

"call......."

Before she suffocated to death on the boy's underwear, Ah Fei loosened her grip and breathed in big gulps, like a fish stranded on the beach.

He collected his master's clothes and placed them in the familiar cabinet.

Some of the items in it are gifts Zhou Huaiyan has given away these days.

For example, the red cape that he gave to Ah Fei when they first met, the casually carved cat from sunken wood, and some priceless treasures and antiques.

The other part is things that should have been thrown away but were secretly picked up by the kitten.

For example, the book "Secret Play of Spring Night", Zhou Huaiyan's old brush, the jade ring that he took off but forgot where it was, the crooked handwriting, the hand ointment that was not used up, and the small satin handkerchief that had been used several times.

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