Chapter 155 You Are Mine
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This time, Xiao Mingzheng finally understood what it meant to speak the truth when drunk. Although he had always known what Zhong Min was thinking, he had never expected her to actually treat him like a stud. For a moment, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this silly girl who was "taking advantage of her drunkenness to cause trouble." What stud was this? He didn't even have a child yet, and yet this girl actually thought so much of him.
Moreover, he hadn't touched the women in the back garden for a long time. Sometimes he thought it was really strange. Could this girl cast a spell? Since returning from the capital, he had no interest in other women, not even Jiang Xiyan, who was said to be a national beauty. He really didn't expect that his dignified prince would have such a time. There were so many women around him, none of them caught his eye, and the one he liked was not satisfied with him.
And facing Zhong Min's drunken accusations, he couldn't find any reason to refute. He reached out and gently stroked her cheek, as if to comfort her. "Min'er, be good. Rest for a while. You'll be fine after you sober up."
"I already said I'm not drunk!" Zhong Min grabbed Xiao Mingzheng's hand and retorted loudly, "I'm telling the truth, but the truth is never liked by people. Why can men have three wives and four concubines, but women must be faithful to one man? It's unfair, totally unfair! Put yourself in their shoes, okay? If a woman also had three husbands and four concubines, would you men feel comfortable?"
Under the influence of alcohol, Zhong Min had long forgotten what she could and couldn't say. At this moment, she simply felt that there were many words in her head, like a faucet turned on, pouring out uncontrollably. She pushed Xiao Mingzheng away and said seriously, as if it were a theory: "In my opinion, the thinking of this world is really too backward. Isn't the whole evolution complete! Why should men enjoy a higher social status than women? Why should men restrict women from doing this or that? In fact, I know that men are timid, cowards. They are afraid that women will become too powerful and they can't control them. That's why they suppress them all the time to improve themselves."
After hearing this, Xiao Mingzheng was speechless and could only shake his head helplessly. Only then did he realize that this was what the girl looked like after getting drunk.
Seeing that Xiao Mingzheng didn't stop her from speaking but looked like he totally disagreed, Zhong Min was very angry. Without waiting for him to speak, she continued, "You think what I said is unreasonable, right? Then you're wrong! In a few years, your place will definitely be the same as ours, with equality between men and women. No matter who you are, everyone is monogamous, and everyone has the right to choose the person they want to marry. At the same time, whether it's a man or a woman, if there is no love and no longer wants to live together, everyone has the right to divorce. Divorce is what you call divorce! In our place, not only can we divorce wives, we can also divorce husbands. It's fair, haha. Also, women can go out to work and earn money to support the family, or they can be officials, do business, or join the military. In short, anything that men can do, women can do too. However, there is one thing women can do that men can't, hahahaha, do you know what it is, what is it? Ah?"
"What is it?" Faced with Zhong Min's long series of chatter, Xiao Mingzheng listened very carefully, especially the sentence "you here and us there" that Zhong Min just said suddenly surprised him.
"Giving birth to a baby, haha..." Zhong Min laughed happily, and then continued, "I knew you wouldn't be able to guess it."
"Min'er, where are you from?" Xiao Mingzheng suddenly remembered something. He gently hugged Zhong Min in his arms and said to her as if coaxing a child, "Can you tell me where you are from?"
For so long, he had harbored doubts about Zhong Min's origins. It wasn't that he worried she had any ill intentions, but rather that she was a mystery, one that no explanation seemed to make sense. He hadn't wanted to force her to ask, but now, hearing her repeat those absurd yet seemingly plausible words, he couldn't help himself.
"Where am I from?" Zhong Min was stunned for a moment, then looked like she was trying hard to recall something. After a moment, she reached out and cupped Xiao Mingzheng's face, twisting it up. She said with a smile, "You're so cunning. You actually wanted to test me to see if I was drunk! Let me tell you, I didn't remember being drunk at all. I remember it incredibly clearly."
Xiao Mingzheng couldn't help but laugh. Zhong Min in front of him was so cute that it completely surprised him. He didn't say anything, but just let her twist his face, his eyes full of indulgence.
"Listen carefully!" Zhong Min finally released the clutches that were crippling Xiao Mingzheng, and then loudly announced: "I, Zhong Min, am from Earth! Remember, Earth, not Mars, not aliens!"
She looked at Xiao Danzheng again and repeated in a low voice: "I am an Earthling just like you. Please don't treat me as an alien, okay?"
"Earth? Mars? Aliens?" This time, Xiao Mingzheng was truly confused. Just like him, what similarities were there? What kind of nonsense was Zhong Min talking about? He chuckled self-deprecatingly. It seemed he was a little drunk, and he almost took her drunken words seriously.
"Mingzheng, you're not an alien, are you? How come there are so many of you at once?" Zhong Min shook his head vigorously, rubbed his eyes, and reached out to touch Xiao Mingzheng with an incredulous look on his face: "Which one is the real you?"
"I'm here." Xiao Mingzheng quickly helped pull Zhong Min's hand towards his face, feeling incredibly happy. She had finally called him Mingzheng after such a long time, and even though she was drunk, he was still incredibly happy.
Zhong Min felt dizzy and didn't bother to think about it anymore. She threw herself into Xiao Mingzheng's arms, hugged him and said, "This is better. The ground doesn't shake as much this way. It's much more stable."
"Silly girl, you're not dizzy, you're drunk." Xiao Mingzheng sighed softly and held her tightly in his arms with pity.
But this time, the person in his arms didn't respond. After a moment, he could hear a faint snoring. He lowered his head slightly and realized that Zhong Min had fallen asleep. He didn't know what he was dreaming about, but the smile on his face remained the same, and even his long, slightly curled eyelashes trembled from time to time.
He smiled silently, reaching out his calloused hand to slowly caress the sweetly sleeping face, gently tracing the facial features, feeling an indescribable sense of happiness and satisfaction. Whether it was absurd, natural, or even unreasonable, it didn't matter. In that moment, he suddenly realized that everything was fake. Only her happily leaning against him like this was real.
He lowered his head and kissed her forehead lightly, murmuring: "Min'er, you are mine, and I..."
"It will be yours too!"
Unfortunately, Zhong Min was sleeping so soundly at the moment that she didn't hear Xiao Mingzheng's muttering at all. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself hiding in the bed where she usually slept in Prince Mu's mansion.
"Jin'er, are you awake?" Xi'er's voice came from above her head. Soon she was heard saying outside, "Zi Yan, hurry up and bring the sobering soup."
Zhong Min finally sat up in a daze, touched his still aching head, and asked Xier, "Why am I here?"
"It's okay. You drank too much last night and passed out. It was the prince who brought you back home." Xier smiled ambiguously: "The prince also asked us to prepare sobering soup, saying that it was you..."
"Prince? Drunk?..." Zhong Min suddenly felt something was wrong and tried desperately to recall what happened last night. A lot of scenes flashed through her mind at once, but the only thing she remembered was drinking fruit wine and eating moon cakes, and then... She really had no recollection of what happened next. She just remembered that she seemed to have said a lot of nonsense, but she couldn't remember a single word of what she said.
"Oh no, oh no, Xier, why did I get drunk last night?" Zhong Min was extremely anxious. She pulled Xier and said, "What did I say and do when I was drunk last night? Tell me quickly!"
"We don't know about that. The prince and the young lady were alone on the boat last night. You were already asleep when we got off the boat, and you haven't woken up since the prince sent you back." Zi Yan said as she handed over the drunken soup. "Forget it, young lady, don't think about it. Drink this first. You will feel much better."
"He's dead, he's dead. I have to go find the prince and ask him for the truth!" Zhong Min became even more anxious. He quickly got out of bed and hurriedly put on his shoes.
Seeing this, Xier quickly grabbed him and said, "Oh, stop running around. Nothing happened. Don't you know who the prince is? He would never take advantage of you when you're drunk. You were dressed neatly when you got off the boat, even wearing a cloak. It's impossible..."
Hearing Xier say this, Zhong Min knew she had misunderstood him, so he interrupted with a green face, "That's not what I meant. I was just worried that I might get drunk and talk nonsense."
"Don't worry about this young lady. Seeing how worried the prince is about you, you know you're fine." Zi Yan also explained, "Besides, the prince went out again after sending you back, and he's not even in the mansion now. Furthermore, the prince has instructed others not to spread any rumors, so I don't think anyone will bother you, young lady."
Zhong Min naturally understood what Zi Yan meant. The person who came to bother her was none other than Jiang Xiyan. However, they didn't know that Xiao Mingzheng didn't have any unusual reaction, but that didn't mean she didn't say nonsense and things she shouldn't have said last night. It's just that she was a little more sober now and not as impulsive as before.
Once words are spoken, they can be spilled. There's really no point in asking specifically. Anyway, he was drunk anyway. No matter what he said, Xiao Mingzheng probably wouldn't take it seriously. Besides, even if he did take it seriously, he wouldn't admit it. He really wouldn't argue with a drunk.
At this point, Zhong Min finally breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that it was getting late outside, he said, "Xi'er, help me pack up. I'm going out."
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