webnovelfull Chapter 114 Drinking makes things worse
Chapter 114 Drinking makes things worse
Zhao Yefan noticed that something was wrong with Su Muxue. Normally, she would never be so happy when she saw him. She would either find fault with him or speak rudely to him. He wondered, was she drunk?
Zhao Yefan looked into Su Muxue's eyes and said tentatively, "It's getting dark. You and Chunyun should go back to the palace. Otherwise, you won't be able to go back until the palace gates are locked."
Su Muxue shook her head: "That palace is so cold, I don't want to go back."
Chunyun took a warm, wet handkerchief and tried to wipe the tears from Su Muxue's face, but she gently pushed it away.
"Chunyun, please go back to the palace first. I will go to my brother's place later. You should take my token back to the palace. Otherwise, if the palace finds out that I haven't returned, they will report it to my father."
Chunyun glanced at Su Muxue, then at Zhao Yefan, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.
Su Muxue looked at Chunyun and smiled: "Don't worry, Zhao Yefan is here, he will protect this princess's safety. If he can't protect her, my father and my brother will not let him go."
Zhao Yefan was originally worried about listening to Su Muxue, but now it seems that Su Muxue's mouth is still as poisonous as before, and he can't help but feel relieved.
However, when he heard what Su Muxue said, he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart. He rushed here in a hurry and took the risk of being beheaded, if it weren't for the fact that these two siblings were difficult to serve.
Zhao Yefan said to Chunyun, "You should go back to the palace first. It would be too conspicuous for her to go back to the palace in her current state. I will send her to Prince Yi's mansion right away. Don't worry."
After hearing Zhao Yefan's assurance, Chunyun felt relieved. She left Shiding Tower and returned to the palace, looking back every step of the way.
Seeing that Chunyun had left, Su Muxue continued to use the wine jug to fill her own glass, and also poured a glass for Zhao Yefan.
Zhao Yefan still couldn't stand Su Muxue's appearance of being fine on the surface but actually being rotten inside. He would rather Su Muxue scolded him for no reason like usual, because that was the normal Su Muxue.
Zhao Yefan stood up, grabbed Su Muxue's arm and said, "Stop drinking, get up, I'll take you to your brother's place."
Su Muxue frowned and broke free from Zhao Yefan's hand.
"I'm not going. If you want to drink with me, then stay. If you don't want to drink with me, then get out. Anyway, there are many people who want to drink with me."
When Zhao Yefan heard this, he really didn't want to spoil her. He snorted coldly and said to Su Muxue, "You are capable, then I will not accompany you anymore. Love whoever you want."
Seeing that Su Muxue didn't react and continued to drink a glass of wine, Zhao Yefan rolled his eyes at her, stood up and walked towards the door.
But when he turned around and saw Su Muxue's desperate look, he had to grit his teeth, secretly cursed himself for being a bitch, and sat back next to Su Muxue with an indignant look on his face.
"Su Muxue! Let me tell you, I came back not because I was worried about you, but because I promised Chunyun that I would take you to Prince Yi's Mansion. If I leave and something happens to you, I will still be in trouble. I will not do such an unprofitable deal!"
Su Muxue couldn't help but smile when she heard Zhao Yefan say this: "Then come over and drink with me."
Zhao Yefan glanced at Su Muxue unhappily, picked up the wine glass that Su Muxue had just filled for him, and drank it in one gulp.
Zhao Yefan said: "You are a princess, you have everything you want, what happened to make you want to die?"
Su Muxue continued to pour wine for Zhao Yefan, and said leisurely: "This princess has everything, but I don't have a happy family."
Zhao Yefan didn't expect Su Muxue to say that, and was stunned.
Today, Su Muxue learned that Su Yi finally took the initiative to go to Zichen Palace to find Su Yu. She couldn't help but feel happy. She couldn't remember how many years it had been since her brother had cared about her father. It seemed that it was after her mother passed away, and her brother sent the things to her grandfather according to her mother's wishes.
She recalled that when she was a child, her father would go to Yukun Palace where her mother lived after court to accompany the three of them to study and have meals. That was the happiest time of her childhood before her mother passed away.
She knew from a young age that her father loved her mother very much and would find ways to send her mother all kinds of gifts every day, including precious jewels, rare flowers and plants, as well as common rare things in the market. However, when her mother received the gifts, she would just smile and ask someone to put them away, and never used them.
She asked her mother if she didn't like it. Her mother said no, she put it away because she was afraid it would be damaged.
Only today did she realize that her mother was not afraid of breaking it, she just didn't want the gift from the man who cheated her.
Su Muxue smiled and said, "Today I know that my mother was deceived by my father. She could have lived a better life. For the sake of us in her belly, she was willing to be tied up in Dongyue Kingdom and died in depression."
Zhao Yefan took away Su Muxue's wine glass: "Your mother did this just to make you and King Yi happy every day. Since she doesn't want you and your sister to know their unhappy side, why do you bother to dwell on the past?"
Su Muxue took back the wine glass and sneered, "There are so many fickle men in this world. It's better to live alone. It seems that it is a wise move for this princess not to marry."
Zhao Yefan nodded, and suddenly realized that he was also a man, and shook his head again: "You can't say that, there are still good men in this world, you just haven't met them. You also said that your father only favors your mother in the palace. It seems that the emperor didn't control his heart before, but he just didn't meet your mother."
Su Muxue sneered: "After my mother died, didn't he bring a lot of women into the palace? Humph~ All men are bad."
"This..." Zhao Yefan suddenly didn't know how to respond. After all, the emperor was in charge of a country, and who knew that those women who entered the palace were not the means he needed to balance the various forces in the court.
Su Muxue picked up the wine glass and poured it into Zhao Yefan's mouth: "Come on, let's not talk about these distressing things, let's drink."
"No, no, no, we can't drink anymore. I'd better send you back to Prince Yi's Palace."
"Stop talking nonsense. If I tell you to drink, just drink. Why are you talking so much nonsense!"
Ahem~ Zhao Yefan, who was fed another glass of wine by Su Muxue, choked a bit and said hurriedly, "To be honest, I can't hold my liquor well. If you drink any more, I won't be able to take you to Prince Yi's Mansion."
"If you can't send it, then don't go! Stop talking nonsense, Zhao Yefan, let's play finger-guessing games, ten, fifty, ten, hahaha~ You lose, drink!"
In the side room, the candlelight was as small as a bean, and the candlelight was scattered on the exquisite bed. In the light gauze tent, Su Muxue whispered softly in a dream: "Chunyun~ This princess is thirsty, pour me a glass of water~"
Su Muxue called several times, but seeing no one answered, she rubbed her sleepy eyes and slowly sat up.
However, when she saw Zhao Yefan lying next to her, and then lifted the quilts of both of them, and looked at the blushing marks of joy on their bodies, she was suddenly struck by lightning, and all her sleepiness disappeared in an instant.