Qian Shengyan was so drunk that she couldn't speak clearly. In the end, when she cried out something, Yinzhen couldn't hear her clearly. He only heard her say, "You have so many beauties," which made him both laugh and cry.
But a sense of comfort also welled up inside her, knowing that Qian Shengyan's drinking today was actually because of jealousy.
Yinzhen feigned displeasure: "Even if you're unhappy about this, you don't need to get yourself drunk like this."
"I'm not unhappy..." Qian Shengyan stopped crying, stared at Yinzhen with blurry eyes for a moment, and then suddenly asked, "Your Highness?"
"Hmm?" Yinzhen replied patiently.
To everyone's surprise, Qian Shengyan swayed twice, and from between her beautiful lips uttered two words that were enough to make her pretty little head fall to the ground: "Yinzhen..."
Yinzhen was taken aback. He wanted to scold her, but when he saw Qian Shengyan sitting there wrapped in a thick quilt, so small and with a hazy look in her eyes, and because she had just cried, the corners of her eyes and the tip of her nose were tinged with red. She was staring blankly at him. Even though she was drunk, there was a hint of fear in her eyes when she called out his name.
In an instant, Yinzhen's heart softened.
He reached out and pinched the soft flesh on Qian Shengyan's cheek: "This time I'll let it go, but you must never call me 'Master' like that again, okay?"
"I want it, I want it!" Qian Shengyan's tears flowed again. She held her breath, burying her head in Yinzhen's arms while whispering, "Yinzhen, Yinzhen, Yinzhen..."
You bastard, Yinzhen.
"Alright, alright." Unable to resist her head pressing against his head, Yinzhen simply picked her up along with the blanket and let her sit on his lap, then whispered a kiss on the top of her head, "Your head is so hard."
“Not as good as Your Highness.” Qian Shengyan pouted, on the verge of tears, “It hurts so much every time you push against me.”
Yinzhen wanted to say, "When did I ever bump your head against yours?" but he quickly realized what Qian Shengyan was talking about.
He was both annoyed and amused, but seeing Qian Shengyan's charming appearance, he couldn't help but want to do something. He pinched her nose and then affectionately put his arm around her waist. Just as he was about to lay her down, he suddenly heard Qian Shengyan speak again.
She said, "When will you go to a place of tranquility and peace, sir?"
Yinzhen was taken aback: "Why would Your Highness want to live a life of tranquility and solitude?"
"Because the two new princesses haven't..." Qian Shengyan was really a bit drunk. She wouldn't usually be so blunt, but today she couldn't control her mouth, "They haven't been opened yet."
Yinzhen: ...
Yinzhen felt a vein throbbing on his forehead. Qian Shengyan was treating his Yongqin Prince's concubine like a prostitute, even offering to... Where did she learn such nonsense?!
"Um, not yet... favored?" Qian Shengyan felt something was amiss in her daze, so she quietly changed the adjective and sighed, "So many people."
Even if she didn't care, they were still sleeping in the same bed, and he was the children's biological father, so she couldn't really not care.
With that sigh, Yinzhen's anger was extinguished. He patted Qian Shengyan's back, and the words "If you don't like them, then send them away again" stuck in his throat, but he couldn't bring himself to say them.
He simply couldn't afford to make such a promise.
He had no choice but to be pressured by various parties to favor Lady Nian, and he also had to pretend to be very fond of her. He was also dealing with Nian Gengyao's occasional letters, which made him very annoyed.
Although Liu and Guo are not from prominent families, they are still legitimate young ladies selected by Consort De and sent to the garden. Yinzhen knows that he will have to give the Empress face sooner or later, as those two princesses cannot remain in their boudoirs forever.
...Originally, he was the one who doted on her because he liked her, but now it had become a task he had to complete, which only made Yinzhen feel annoyed.
The little one in my arms is still the most obedient.
The little one in his arms—Qian Shengyan—had already started nodding and dozing off, her breath filled with the aroma of fruit wine. Only then did Yinzhen remember the slightly cooled hangover soup. He frowned slightly, then relaxed again, pinching Qian Shengyan's soft flesh and calling to her, "Drink the hangover soup before you sleep."
"No..." Before Qian Shengyan could finish refusing, her chin was grabbed and a warm kiss followed, feeding her a mouthful of hangover soup without spilling a drop.
Qian Shengyan: "Hmm..."
"Don't spit it out." Yinzhen fed her another spoonful, one spoonful at a time. After finishing the hangover soup, Qian Shengyan's clothes were undone, and she was so dizzy from being kissed that she instinctively wrapped her arms around Yinzhen's neck. As he pulled away, she chased after his lips, crying, "Master..."
"Your Highness is here." Yinzhen casually put down the bowl, then pulled Qian Shengyan onto the bed with him...
The next morning, Qian Shengyan woke up feeling completely dazed. She even suspected that Yinzhen had taken advantage of her while she was drunk, otherwise why would she feel pain all over her body from head to toe?
"Qingxue..."
Okay, even his voice is hoarse.
Yinzhen definitely has some kind of secret fetish! How could she have gotten so drunk that she touched a nerve and ended up like this?!
"Master, oh, Master has finally woken up!" Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief. "Master, good Master, please don't drink alcohol anymore, okay?"
Qian Shengyan's eyes were filled with tears: "My head hurts, my back hurts, my whole body aches..."
“My lady…” Qingxue was embarrassed. “Yesterday, the prince and you both went to bed, but, cough, I guess you weren’t feeling well because you drank some wine. You had just fallen asleep when you sat up and insisted on getting out of bed. The prince couldn’t stop you, and you ended up falling off the bed because your legs were weak…”
Qian Shengyan: ?
"The prince got out of bed to help you, but you got up too suddenly and knocked the prince over with your back."
Qian Shengyan: ? ? ? ?
"Then you lay on the ground again and started crying, insisting that you were experiencing sleep paralysis. When the prince came down to carry you to bed, you... you even hit the prince and struggled fiercely, and you even..." Qingxue almost dared not say more, "You even punched the prince in the eye. When the prince felt the pain, he loosened his grip, and you... you lay on the ground again."
Qian Shengyan: ...So it really was domestic violence against her!
"Then... Your Highness, you must have hurt yourself from the fall. You cried and pounded the Prince's foot. The Prince knelt down to pick you up again, and you punched him in the eye..." Qingxue swallowed hard. "The Prince's left eye is all dark. He asked the Emperor for leave today and is in the study right now. Does Your Highness wish to see him..."
"Don't call him!" Qian Shengyan quickly waved her hand, only to realize afterward that her fists were bleeding—how could she not know she had such a violent potential!
My head hurts even more now!
I will never drink alcohol again in my life!!!
Qian Shengyan acted suspiciously all morning. If she hadn't had nowhere else to hide, she would have run away by now. She even went to Hongli's place to have lunch with him.
Yinzhen probably didn't want his son to see his "miserable state," so after asking, he had lunch alone in his study.
Just when Qian Shengyan thought she could at least get through the day, something happened in the garden after lunch.
The Third Prince, Hongshi, pushed the two-year-old Fifth Prince, Hongzhou, into the lake.
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