Chapter 52 The Arrogant Prince 19
"Your subordinate obeys." Shadow Two immediately disappeared from the spot upon receiving the order.
With the candlelight flickering, Zhou Zichen quietly watched the girl who was already fast asleep on the bed.
He raised his hand and rubbed her face, his eyes gradually hardening, but in the end he withdrew his hand, never harming her.
As dawn broke, Xu Qiuqiu felt a terrible headache. The alcohol from yesterday was too strong; she got drunk after just one sip.
A gentle voice sounded beside her, "Qiuqiu, you're awake."
She turned her head and saw Zhou Zichen holding a bowl and smiling at her, but that smile always made her feel strange, and gave her a chilling feeling.
Zhou Zichen gently coaxed, "Qiuqiu, does your head hurt? You were drunk last night. Drink this hangover soup and your headache will go away."
After speaking, he stirred the hangover soup in the bowl with his slender fingers, picked up the spoon, and was about to feed her.
Xu Qiuqiu didn't think much of it and was about to lean over to drink when her 003 in her sea of consciousness suddenly shouted, "Host, you can't drink!"
"Why?" Xu Qiuqiu asked, startled.
"Host, there's medicine in the hangover soup, you can't drink it." 003 replied anxiously. It had tried to wake the host last night, but the host hadn't woken up, so it could only worry helplessly.
Just as she was about to ask what kind of medicine it was, Xu Qiuqiu's shoulder was suddenly grabbed, and Zhou Zichen asked with a gloomy face, "Qiuqiu, who are you thinking about?"
Whom are you thinking about through me?
Caught off guard, he pulled her closer, forcing Xu Qiuqiu to look him in the eye. His eyes seemed like bottomless black holes, and the pressure emanating from him was even more terrifying than when they first met.
What's wrong with him?
Xu Qiuqiu asked somewhat fearfully, "Achen, what's wrong?"
To everyone's surprise, these words completely enraged Zhou Zichen. His face darkened further, and he slammed down the bowl in his hand, glaring at her fiercely. "Don't call me A-Chen, I'm not him!"
His chest heaved violently, his fingers gripping her face. "The person in front of you now is Zhou Zichen. I am not a substitute for anyone! Do you understand?"
Her face, which was being held by him, hurt a little, and Xu Qiuqiu couldn't help but let out a soft cry.
Hearing her cry of pain, Zhou Zichen asked her with red eyes, "Does it hurt? Do you feel as much pain as I do? Do you know how much pain and suffering I feel inside?"
Do you know how I got through last night?
Xu Qiuqiu was bewildered by his barrage of questions. What was going on? Could someone tell her?
Looking at the boy with reddened eyes, she wanted to speak, but he seemed unwilling to give her the chance.
Zhou Zichen released his grip, a cold smile playing on his lips. "Qiuqiu, your Qi Chen should be dead by now."
He leaned close to her ear and whispered intimately, "Qiuqiu, just be my queen and don't mention that person again."
"You have to be a good girl and listen to me, otherwise I'll have to force you to listen..." He then gently touched her face.
Despite his gentle tone, Xu Qiuqiu felt a chill run down her spine, as if his fingers were icy cold, like a damp, cold snake coiling around her.
Looking at the increasingly strange boy in front of her, how could he have changed so much in just one night? This is too unbelievable. And how does he know about Qi Chen?
Was she drunk and talking nonsense? But she couldn't remember what happened last night.
Zhou Zichen separated them a little, withdrew his fingers, and continued to smile, "Qiuqiu, does your head still hurt? I'll go prepare another bowl of hangover soup for you."
As soon as Zhou Zichen left, the oppressive atmosphere gradually dissipated. Xu Qiuqiu quickly asked 003, "003, what happened last night? How did he know about Qi Chen?"
"And what kind of drug is he going to give me?"
“Host, you drank too much last night and got tricked into revealing information by the second male lead,” 003 said immediately.
It was terrified last night. The second male lead stared at the host all night, and it was very anxious, afraid that something might happen to the host. It kept calling the host in its mind, but the host did not respond at all.
“He put the hangover soup in the early morning, a drug that would make the host fall asleep. He planned to keep the host asleep until the wedding.”
"..." Xu Qiuqiu turned pale with fright after hearing this. It was over. He found out. The obedient boy was gone.
She will never drink again; alcohol ruins lives!
The only saving grace is that he didn't get so angry that he killed her with his sword. Does that mean she still has room to maneuver?
However, it was indeed her fault for not explaining earlier, which led to the misunderstanding getting deeper and deeper.
She did occasionally think of Qi Chen because of his face. Although they had different personalities at the beginning, she always felt that they were the same person when she was with him, so she didn't worry about who was with whom for a long time.
A sense of guilt rose in her heart. She had still hurt him. At first, she was just trying to curry favor with him for the mission, but in the end, he treated her better and better. Sometimes, she would just say a few nice words, and he would be as happy as a child.
What had she done for him? Thinking about this, her fear disappeared, and she felt a little sorry for him.
Why is she feeling so sad now when it's just a mission? In the first world, she knew she would leave after completing the mission, so she didn't dare to invest too much emotion.
She thought so too when she arrived in the second world, but when she saw his red eyes, she couldn't help but feel sorry for him.
Zhou Zichen brought the hangover soup back to Xu Qiuqiu's bedside and found her sitting on the bed looking dejected, with her eyes a little red.
He felt a dull ache in his heart. "Qiuqiu, who are you sad for?"
He was incredibly jealous of Qi Chen, but when he thought that Qi Chen might have already been killed by Ying Er, he comforted himself that there was no point in fighting with a dead person. But when he saw her slightly red eyes, he was provoked again. Did she like him that much?
Then what am I?
He hated her so much, hated that she didn't love him and only treated him as a substitute for someone else.
He was such a proud man, yet now he had become someone else's substitute. The moment he found out, he wanted to kill everyone. But after a night, he realized he couldn't bring himself to do it.
In the middle of the night, he even thought that a stand-in was fine, as long as she was by his side, that was enough. As long as he killed that man, she would only have him by her side. Life was so long, she would eventually fall in love with him. After they got married, everything would be settled, and he would treat her well and make her completely forget that man.
He forced back the tears that were tearing his heart apart, "Qiuqiu, don't be sad. Drink some hangover soup first, so you won't have a headache."
Xu Qiuqiu glanced at Zhou Zichen, who was now smiling gently at her, as if he wasn't the one who had just gone crazy and acted ruthlessly.
But she saw the storm brewing beneath the calm in his eyes; if she drank it, she would lose consciousness, and if she didn't, he might force her to drink it.
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