The voice, though seemingly calm, sent chills down their spines.
They exchanged a glance, and their hearts sank.
Oh no, they forgot how terrifying the Crown Prince is. Trying to outsmart him is tantamount to courting death.
Those who weren't called out gave them a sympathetic look, then slipped away as fast as they could. Anyone could see that the Crown Prince was going to make trouble for them.
Bathed in the 'good luck' gazes of the crowd, the group turned away miserably.
"Your subject dares not!"
Who dares? Aren't they afraid of messing things up and getting punished by the prince?
Qiao Qiu leaned back in her chair, tapped her finger on the table, chuckled, glanced at the ministers at her table, and said, "You all go and drink with your colleagues. This table is for the Crown Prince and the others."
"Yes, Your Highness." The people sitting at this table were the Crown Prince's confidants, so they naturally had to be as obedient as possible and quickly left.
"Your Highness..." The princes had turned into quails, swallowing hard, looking as cowardly as could be.
Qiao Qiu pointed confidently to the empty seats around her, "Sit wherever you like, there are plenty of seats."
"Yes, yes..." The group slunk away and found seats, their initial menacing demeanor completely gone.
"Someone come here." Qiao Qiu toyed with her chopsticks, tapping them on the bowl, her expression nonchalant.
The servant standing behind her quickly stepped forward. "What are your orders, Your Highness?"
"Go and bring five jars of wine for each of them."
"Five...five jars of wine? Your Highness, this is unacceptable!" The Prince Ding's heir panicked when he saw the servants turn around to move them. How could his alcohol tolerance withstand such a torment? Wouldn't he just drink himself to death?
"Why not? I'm in high spirits today and would like to offer you a few toasts. However, if I drink one cup and you drink one cup as well, that would be a bit disrespectful to me. How about this, I'll drink one cup and you drink three cups," Qiao Qiuyun said calmly.
"Your Highness, my drinking capacity is..."
Qiao Qiu's indifferent gaze swept over them, and the official who had spoken immediately fell silent. Under the table, his legs were trembling like leaves.
Waaaaah... I dare not offend His Highness the Crown Prince, what should I do?
Soon, several servants brought over the wine.
Qiao Qiu raised a glass of wine, said no toast, and only said one word—"Cheers!" Then she tilted her head back and drank the wine down.
Seeing that he was serious, the others had no choice but to force him to drink.
Waaaaah, why did they have to offend such a powerful figure?
He drank three cups of bitter wine.
Before they could catch their breath, Qiao Qiu raised her glass again, said one word, "Cheers," and then drank it down.
The group then drank three more unbearable cups of wine.
After six cups of wine, their faces turned completely red, like boiled shrimp.
Qiao Qiu raised her glass again, squinted at them, and said, "If you're a man, bottoms up!!"
"Cheers!" The group was already quite drunk and couldn't withstand such a challenge. They picked up their glasses and downed them in one gulp! After finishing, they even grabbed their own wine jugs.
A man stood up, holding a wine jar, slurring his words and barely able to stand, and said to Qiao Qiu, "Your Highness, Your Highness, today I will show you what a real man is!"
After saying that, he raised the wine jar and poured it into his mouth.
Splash! Much more spilled on the ground than was drunk.
Qiao Qiu looked at the wine on the ground and shook her head slightly. Fortunately, it wasn't her wine, so there was no need to feel bad about it.
After finishing the entire jar, the man collapsed.
Qiao Qiu made a gesture, and the servants carried the person away.
Seeing this, the others seemed to realize something, and they all stood up abruptly, staring at Qiao Qiu with red eyes, looking like they were going to their deaths heroically.
Qiao Qiu was a little confused. What was going on?
She wasn't afraid of them attacking, but she felt things weren't as she thought.
Even if she ordered these men to assassinate her, they wouldn't dare.
“Your Highness, we are all men!” the Prince declared heroically.
After saying that, they each picked up a jar of wine and downed it in one gulp.
When a group of people at the table picked up wine jars and drank it all, it was quite a sight. Everyone turned to look at them, casting admiring glances at the Prince Ding and his entourage.
Even Qiao Qiu wanted to applaud them.
To extricate oneself in this way, I must say, well done.
After finishing this jar, everyone at the table collapsed.
Qiao Qiu stood up, opened his fan, and said to the servants, "I, the Crown Prince, will be leaving now. You all take them back to their respective residences. There's no need for them to be in the way here, understand?"
"Yes, Your Highness, rest assured, we know what to do," the servants replied obsequiously.
The people sitting in the courtyard stood up and bowed to Qiao Qiu when they saw His Highness the Crown Prince come out.
"Respectfully seeing off His Highness the Crown Prince!"
After leaving the Prince's Mansion, Qiao Qiu went to Yu Honghua's place.
She also wants to be a good family man.
The ring thought to itself, "Master, you're becoming more and more addicted to being a man."
"Who made me born a man? And my wife is a woman." Doesn't Qiao Qiu have any complaints? Of course she does. She's a woman, and she's been a woman her whole life. She's long accepted herself as a woman. What's the point of constantly being turned into a man?
She was forced into this, okay? Is it easy for a woman to be a good man?
It wasn't easy!
“Master, I have a feeling that you will be normal in your next life,” the ring said.
"You have a feeling that it's true?" Qiao Qiu raised an eyebrow, feeling as if she had touched upon some incredible truth.
The ring's heart skipped a beat. Oh no! It mustn't let its owner know that it can interfere with things in the space, or it'll be finished!
"I don't know either. When I followed the protagonist for a long time, I had a little bit of a premonition. Since there was nothing I could do, I could only guess whether the protagonist would be a man or a woman in the next life."
While she spoke calmly, with a hint of sadness in her voice, she was actually panicking inside, afraid that Qiao Qiu would notice something.
Qiao Qiu naturally didn't notice anything. After all, without seeing the real person, one can't draw many conclusions based solely on a voice.
Moreover, the explanation given by the ring is quite reasonable; everything has its own laws, and time travel is no exception.
Even Qiao Qiu herself felt that after so many abnormal lifetimes, surely one lifetime would give her a normal world?
On the second day of his marriage, Dongfang Wuye went out to save the world as usual. Qiao Qiu originally wanted to give him two days off and not assign him any test papers, but who knew this guy would be so enthusiastic.
However, Qiao Qiu did indeed do as she had in mind and did not send the test paper to Dongfang Wuye.
Dongfang Wuye thought he had done something wrong, so he went to Qiao Qiu to apologize.
After Qiao Qiu told him the truth, Dongfang Wuye finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Brother, if you do this again, tell me what you mean first, otherwise it will scare people to death!"
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