Chapter 44

As the result of irritating that pervert, Zixiu didn’t get any food for lunch. Though the swelling on his face had subsided, he was not allowed to get out of the bedroom. Having pondered for quite a long time, Zixiu still suspected that Nangong Du was about to poison him, so he waited until the night fell. Driven by hunger, and remembering how sorrowful Nangong Du seemed when he left, Zixiu finally gobbled up the whole roast chicken, throwing all caution to the wind.

“It’s a little bit cold, but it tastes so good!”

Zixiu couldn’t help but feel fretting at the sound of the rain pounding on the window.

“Senior Brother, can you bear to see me suffer here? Have you made up your mind not to come back? How can you leave me alone like this! If it has never occurred to you to get me out of here, why did you show up mysteriously and give me hope? How can you be so irresponsible? You machine!”

Though he was complaining secretly, Zixiu still held the porcelain box the guard had given him. “Heavens! How miserable it is when a person loses his freedom and puts himself at the mercy of other people! ”

“Sweetie pie…”

“Oh, my actual and literal golly goodness! That asshole came again!”

After stuffing the porcelain box into his pocket in a hurry, Zixiu jumped out of the soft couch, rushed to the door, and stopped behind the curtain.

To his surprise, Nangon Du staggered into the room with the help of a bunch of maidservants.

He looked at Zixiu blankly with a trace of a blush. When the breeze blew in, the room instantly reeked of alcohol. Needless to say, he was drunk!

“Is he faking it again?” Having learned the lesson from the last time, Zixiu couldn’t help but hesitate about whether to give a hand to those maidservants. Except for Xingyi, all the other girls were so slim that even a gust of wind might blow them away!

Though in a hurry, Xingyi and those maidservants didn’t forget to show their respect to the ‘princess’.

“You may rise. Help His Highness to the bed right now!” Without hesitation, Zixiu shoved those maidservants away and helped Nangong Du to the bed in person. The latter didn’t take the opportunity to harass him, so Zixiu thought he was really drunk, but the only thing that bothered him was that the pervert kept on calling him ‘darling’. “He’s making me physically sick!”

Despite getting goosebumps all over, he finally managed to put the drunkard to bed. When Zixiu looked back, he was surprised to find that all those girls, including Xinyi, were gone!

“How come they left so quickly? So irresponsible! At least they should fetch some soup to wake their master up!” Zixiu muttered resentfully. “I’m just an outsider. Since even his favorite maidservant doesn’t care about him, why should I bother to take care of him?” At the thought of this, Zixiu waved his hand and lay back on the soft couch.

“Why didn’t this jerk go back to his own bedroom? Is he playing tricks again?”

Thinking of this, Zixiu suddenly sprang out of the couch in alarm. Standing in the middle of the room, he looked warily at the seemingly delirious fellow in the bed.

“Darling…” Sprawling in bed, Nangong Du muttered, “Sugar… My snookums…”

“Shut up! How on earth can you be so talkative while you’re still drunk? Dear God, has this asshole really fallen for me?”

Associating the sarcastic remarks Nangong Du had made to him this morning with the roast chicken as well as how he had pretended to be drunk and stolen a kiss from him the other day, Zixiu immediately froze on the spot. “Though I’m handsome, talented, easygoing… It’s impossible that this pervert has taken a fancy to me! Liu Zixiu, don’t take things for granted. You must have misunderstood it. Prince Mu has three other consorts and two male concubines, so maybe he’s calling out to one of them!”

At the thought of this, Zixiu couldn’t help but tiptoe to the bed to eavesdrop on what Nangong Du was muttering.

“Honey…. Don’t leave me… Don’t…”

“Is any of his other consorts or concubines about to leave?”

“It’s all my fault… Sweetheart… My baby…”

“It’s incredible that this bastard would have admitted his mistakes!”

“Don’t… I should be blamed for what you’ve been put through… I’m useless and I can’t protect you…”

Zixiu widened his eyes in surprise.

Although Nangong Du failed to finish his sentence, Zixiu keenly sensed that there seemed to have been bitterly painful chapters in his past. “Did he get drunk because his old lover crossed his mind? What kind of person could it be that even this arrogant prince was unable to protect?”

Holding his breath, Zixiu indulged in himself before Nangong Du suddenly cried his name out.

“Liu Zixiu—”

Blanching with fear, Zixiu flung himself down on the floor in haste, his forehead nearly hitting the edge of the bed!

After a moment of silence, Nang Gongdu’s voice rang again. “Don’t try to… replace… Darling… Don’t leave me…”

Zixiu took a long sigh of relief. “You psycho, you almost scared the hell out of me!”

“Your Highness!”

“Ah!” Hearing Xingyi’s voice suddenly ringing behind, Zixiu screamed in horror, and next, he bumped against the frame of the bed. “Ouch!”

“Your Highness, may I ask what you are doing?” With that, Xingyi walked in with a bowl of soup. Though she was speaking in a gentle voice, the look on her face was grim.

“I… It’s none of your business!” Zixiu answered coldly as soon as he came back to his senses. He had seen through this woman, so he wouldn’t just let her have her way.

Stop faking her gentleness, Xingyi put the bowl on the table while speaking with a ferocious look, “Well, you might be right, but Liu Zixiu, don’t think you’re superior to anyone else because Prince Mu dotes on you! His Highness is only caught up in the moment and he’ll soon get tired of you!”

“Humph! Do you think I’m someone’s puppet?” Zixiu thought disdainfully with a sneer. As he didn’t want this shrew to take advantage of him in terms of argument, Zixiu talked back ironically, “Even if I fall out of favor with His Highness one day, you are still no match for me! You’re not even eligible to serve him in bed!”

“… You’re neglected by Prince Mu, so you’re venting your anger on me, am I right?” Xingyi paused for a while, but instead of feeling annoyed, she revealed a smug look. “You must still be in the dark. Prince Mu just came back from the brothel. Every time he married a new consort or a concubine, he would stay at the mansion for at least half a month, but this time you’ve just married him, and he has already…”

“Who told you I was married to him? Listen! I, Liu Zixiu, have nothing to do with your master! If he likes to go to the brothel, just let him. I don’t care!”

“Fine! Liu Zixiu, you’d better not forget what you’ve said just now!”