Du Gu Luanyue: "You're hurting me!"
She was extremely annoyed. Had Huo Wei never been around women since childhood? Who grabbed someone by the chin and interrogated them like this?
Huo Wei then smeared the medicinal juice, a pungent mixture of strong liquor and bitter medicine, on her face, covering half of it in a dark brown stain. He muttered, "Let's apply some here too."
The alcohol had long since taken effect, and his head had been dizzy. When he climbed over the wall and got in just now, he fell straight to the ground. It hurt like hell.
His narrow, phoenix - like eyes glanced at her hazily. "What's that look for?"
Du Gu Luanyue pushed him away with one hand. Unexpectedly, Huo Wei slumped to the ground, his body going limp.
She wiped her face vigorously with a handkerchief and roared even more angrily, "Get out!"
Huo Wei sat on the ground, looking up at her. "You can't take a bath for the next few days. Don't move your hands around. Got it?"
Du Gu Luanyue said, "What exactly do you mean? You're the one who said those harsh words, and you're also the one who came to find me. Does it feel good to slap yourself in the face?"
Huo Wei slowly got up from the ground, turned around, and faced his back to her. "If you were in my shoes, you'd understand. This is just a helpless choice."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to leave.
Du Gu Luanyue also stood up, her voice firm.
"What helpless choice? You just don't trust me. Moreover, you've never been open and honest with me about what you really want. I've always been guessing.
Huo Wei, you coward! There's not a single hard part on you!"
Huo Wei had one leg on the window sill. Hearing this, he put it down, walked back in front of Du Gu Luanyue, and said,
"Do you want to see what's hard?"
Du Gu Luanyue sneered. "See what? Coward, weakling, total weakling!"
Huo Wei nodded with a smile. "Okay, okay, you're right." His smile suddenly vanished. He took two quick steps to the edge of the bed.
"Then let's find out tonight. Let's see what's the hardest part of me!"
Du Gu Luanyue looked at him in disbelief and quickly pulled the curtain over to block herself. "Huo Wei, how can you be so rough!"
At that moment, Du Gu Luanyue finally felt the bandit - like aura on Huo Wei. He must have really been through the grind in the military camp.
It seemed that his self - restraint and the image of a proper gentleman on weekdays were all just acts.
Huo Wei leaned over with a strong smell of alcohol, pushed her onto the bed, knelt between her waist with his legs, and grabbed her chin with one hand.
"If I'm not rough, how will you know if I'm a weakling or not, huh?"
The pungent smell of alcohol lingered around Du Gu Luanyue's nose. She frowned slightly. "Huo Wei, what do you take me for? A plaything?"
Huo Wei's heavy breathing came to her ear. He gently nibbled on her collarbone. "Then what do you take me for? A tool?"
Du Gu Luanyue tried to push him away with her uninjured hand but couldn't. "Get out of here quickly. I never want to see you again."
Huo Wei was drowsy. He fell onto her bed, his eyes opening and closing. His body was limp and motionless. It was rather strange.
Du Gu Luanyue got off the bed and pointed outside.
"What exactly do you mean? You're the one who told me to leave on my own, and now you're the one lying on my bed. I'm warning you one more time. If you don't get out, I'll scream. We'll both be in trouble!"
From time to time, there were soft snores from the bedside. Du Gu Luanyue's eyes widened. She pressed her temples and said in disbelief,
"Huo Wei, are you crazy? Don't you know your own status? Climbing over the wall in the middle of the night and sleeping on the queen's bed. Get off, you stink!" She was extremely annoyed. This guy was really bold.
Huo Wei shifted his body slightly but gave no response.
Du Gu Luanyue called Aunt Meijiang in and roared, "Aunt, look! Is he crazy?"
Aunt Meijiang lit the candle and waved her hand in front of her nose. "What a strong smell of alcohol. Why did the Prince of Yuzhang drink so much?"
She leaned over and tried to drag him off the bed. Although Huo Wei looked tall and slender, he was unexpectedly heavy. She couldn't move him.
"Alas, Your Majesty, what's wrong with the Prince of Yuzhang today? Usually, he seems like a self - restrained person. Why is he so dissolute today?
As a prince, he actually dared to fall asleep in his father's woman's bedroom. He's really bold."
Aunt Meijiang frowned. She was a bit scared in her heart.
Du Gu Luanyue's eyes were filled with anger. She said coldly, "Send someone to throw him into the snow. He deserves to freeze to death."
Aunt Meijiang said, "No. If someone sees this, Your Majesty, how can you get out of this? Moreover, if the Prince of Yuzhang really freezes to death in the snow, His Majesty will definitely order a thorough investigation. We won't be able to get away with it."
Du Gu Luanyue stamped her feet in the palace. "I'm so angry!"
She not only had to watch this stinky man Huo Wei sleep in her bed but also had to find ways to cover up the matter. She was so annoyed. Did she owe him in her past life?
Aunt Meijiang quietly brought over some honey water and fed it to Huo Wei spoon by spoon.
"The Prince of Yuzhang is really something. He must be mouth - hard. He definitely has feelings for Your Majesty in his heart. Otherwise, why would he drink and act crazy?"
Du Gu Luanyue slept on the couch opposite the round table. She pulled the quilt over and said coldly, "What feelings? He's just lecherous."
When she woke up the next day, Huo Wei was no longer in Du Gu Luanyue's bedroom. He climbed over the wall to leave, but lost his balance again and fell off the wall.
He limped back to his own bedroom to take a bath. After a while, Meng Tan rushed in and reported urgently, "My Lord, something bad has happened!"
Huo Wei was soaking in the wooden tub. He said calmly, "Speak."
Meng Tan said, "Last night, the wall of the bedroom where the Crown Prince of Dongning, Prince Xie, lives suddenly collapsed. Prince Xie was injured, and now the Second Prince has been scolded by His Majesty.
But the Second Prince said that he didn't take much care of the renovation of the hot - spring palace. Later, he handed it over to My Lord to handle. Now, all the responsibility has been placed on My Lord."
Huo Wei's deep eyes darkened. He calmly got up from the bathtub, changed his clothes, and rushed towards Emperor Murong Min's palace.
As soon as he arrived at the palace, he saw that Du Gu Luanyue and the emperor were sitting in the main seats, and the Second Prince, Murong Hua, was kneeling on the ground.
Before Huo Wei could say a word, Murong Hua pointed at him and said,
"Father, it must be the Prince of Yuzhang who embezzled money. Besides the collapsed wall of Prince Xie's bedroom, there are other places in the hot - spring palace where shoddy work was done!"
Du Gu Luanyue secretly glared at Huo Wei. She was still angry about the thing that he slept in her bed last night.
She held back her anger and pointed at the ledger beside her. "Prince of Yuzhang, do you have any explanation for this?"