Qingxue couldn't help but laugh. She quickly replied "Yes" and hurriedly withdrew, but she could still hear her mistress whining that she didn't want to drink chicken soup.
...Really, what was she worrying about for nothing?
Having figured it out, Qingxue went to talk to Cui'er, who was standing next to Liu Gege. Seeing Cui'er leave angrily, she couldn't help but make a face at her back. But when she turned around, she found Su Peisheng smiling at her.
Qingxue immediately felt embarrassed and quickly lowered her eyes and stood back in her original position, pretending that nothing had happened.
Before dinner, Liu actually brought over some chicken soup.
She was also a woman of flexibility; dressed in a glamorous manner, she insisted on standing aside, saying she was going to serve the prince and his concubine a meal, but her eyes were almost glued to Yinzhen. When she served Qian Shengyan a bowl of soup, she spilled half of it.
Hot soup splashed onto Qian Shengyan's hand. She cried out and pulled her hand back. Before she could say anything, Liu Shi knelt down on the ground with a pitiful look and said to Yinzhen, "It was this servant's recklessness. I hope Your Highness will forgive this servant."
Qian Shengyan: ...
It's her hand that's been burned, not Yinzhen's! What the hell are you expecting him to forgive?
Feeling annoyed by the meal, Qian Shengyan threw down her chopsticks and turned back to her bedchamber.
Liu Shi seemed startled and let out a delicate "Ah!" before looking at Yinzhen with teary eyes: "Your Highness, is the concubine... is she angry with me?"
Yinzhen was also in no mood to eat due to the disturbance. He slowly wiped his fingers clean and didn't drink a drop of the chicken soup.
Before getting up to leave, he instructed Su Peisheng: "Princess Liu, for your insubordination, you shall be confined to your quarters for a month as a warning to others."
Su Peisheng bowed in agreement, but when he looked up at Liu again, the smile on his face had completely disappeared.
He straightened up and said coldly, "Please, Princess Liu."
Liu's smile was now stiff, her eyes filled with disbelief. Her expression slowly changed as she looked at Su Peisheng, bewildered: "How could I have been so disrespectful? I..."
"Princess Liu!" Su Peisheng interrupted her loudly, then waved his hand, "Please."
Liu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but when she met Su Peisheng's cold gaze, she paused, glared at him disdainfully, turned and left, muttering to herself, "It's only a month, you wait until I get out... A eunuch, daring to put on airs in front of me, I'll get the prince to give you a beating!"
Su Peisheng was too lazy to even roll his eyes at such people, so he didn't go himself. Instead, he simply arranged for Zhang Defu to send the person back to Danbo Ningjing, and then instructed people to keep a close watch on Liu Shi, forbidding her from entering or leaving for a month.
Qingxue walked over and couldn't help but laugh: "I haven't heard such words in many years."
Su Peisheng snorted, "It's been a few years since we've brought in any new people."
After he finished speaking, something seemed to tickle Qingxue's funny bone, and she burst out laughing. But then, realizing it was inappropriate, she quickly stopped, though her eyes crinkled into a smile, adding a touch of liveliness to her usual dignified demeanor.
Su Peisheng couldn't help but grin at the sight.
In the bedroom, Qian Shengyan dipped her hand in cool water. Seeing that the back of her hand was only slightly red and didn't hurt or blister, she gave up.
Feeling irritated, she simply sat on the small couch, picked up a cushion and punched it a few times, then threw it aside. Still not satisfied, she shouted "Ouch!" and jumped up to punch the cushion.
A soft chuckle came from the doorway, and Qian Shengyan turned around abruptly to meet Yinzhen's eyes.
Realizing what she had just done, Qian Shengyan froze in embarrassment.
This is so embarrassing...
Since she was already gone, Qian Shengyan decided not to care about anything anymore. She turned her back and threw herself onto the small couch, burying her face in the cushions—he couldn't see her anymore, could he...?
Yinzhen walked over and sat down beside her. He picked up her hand, which had just been scalded, and glanced at it. Seeing the red marks, a flash of displeasure returned to his phoenix eyes.
He called out "Su Peisheng," and soon, Eunuch Su came in from outside.
"Go find Doctor Zhou and get some burn ointment," Yinzhen instructed calmly, then added, "Liu's confinement will be extended for three months."
"Yes, sir!" Su Peisheng replied, a cold smile appearing on his lips as he left.
If she's still waiting a month to come out and deal with him, then let Eunuch Su see if this guy can still come out.
Qian Shengyan turned her head from under the cushions and looked at Yinzhen, muttering in a low voice, "Why is she being punished with confinement?"
"Insubordination, shouldn't one be confined to their quarters?" Yinzhen looked at her slightly flushed face with amusement and pulled her up. "Sit down, don't hold your breath."
“She did not offend Your Highness.” Qian Shengyan did not get up, her flushed face resting on the cushion, looking at Yinzhen with a sullen expression. “She was very respectful to Your Highness.”
“But it’s not enough for you,” Yinzhen replied casually.
Qian Shengyan parted her lips slightly, wanting to say that she wasn't exactly "on top," but then she thought that arguing with Yinzhen about this was pointless, so she just smiled and said, "Your Highness, I'm so hungry."
"Have someone bring another meal. What would you like to have?" Yinzhen asked, seemingly unconcerned.
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard a commotion from the maids outside. Qian Shengyan propped herself up and went to the window to open it, intending to ask them what they were laughing about. However, she was stunned when she saw the view outside.
It's snowing.
The first snow of the 53rd year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign.
Qian Shengyan suddenly became interested. She crawled and crawled until she reached Yinzhen's side and whispered, "It's snowing."
"Hmm." Yinzhen looked down at her, his gaze full of tenderness.
In an instant, Qian Shengyan seemed to be bewitched, and couldn't help but stammer, "Yinzhen..." She blinked her eyes, feeling a little shy, but still wanted to say, "I like you so much..."
After saying that, she leaned in and gently kissed his lips.
Before Yinzhen could recover from her address, he heard her words and his eyes widened slightly. Before he could react, she gently kissed him.
She added, "I've heard people say that if you kiss someone on the first snowfall, you'll grow old together."
After saying that, she seemed a little embarrassed. She shrank her neck slightly and crawled back a couple of times like a little turtle to get away from him. Her eyes blinked, as if she didn't know where to look. After a moment, she said reproachfully, "Don't look at me!"
She spoke so naturally that Yinzhen didn't find anything amiss. His Adam's apple bobbed, he reached out to close the window, then pulled the little rascal who had flirted and run away back to him, and kissed her deeply on the lips…
As Yinzhen, slightly out of breath, reached to unbutton Qian Shengyan's clothes, Qian Shengyan suddenly remembered something, grabbed his hand, and said with a dazed look, "Um, I, this concubine, my period isn't over yet..."
Yinzhen: ...
Qian Shengyan: "Hehehe, Master, would you like some hot pot?"
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