Cheng Xiaoxiao hid behind a pillar and looked at the west side of the gold dragon banquet table.
Since the victory banquet was held in Chu Yunshen’s honor, he should sit in the first seat.
However, a man around seven feet and eight inches tall dressed in fine clothes was sitting there when Cheng Xiaoxiao looked up at the west side's first seat.
The young man looked around 16 years old. He had well-chiseled features and attractive eyes.
Chu Yunshen left the second seat empty and was getting ready to take the third one with Xiaowu standing behind him.
Cheng Xiaoxiao found it odd. Didn't they hold this victory banquet for Chu Yunshen?
Shouldn't he be taking the first seat?
Why was someone else sitting there?
This young man was rather dumb.
Also, Chu Yunshen was acting strange too. He might not care about the seating arrangement, but why did he deliberately leave t
The moment imperial consort Su finished her sentence, the atmosphere froze for a while. Imperial consort Zhao looked at the empress on the main seat. She was drinking tea expressionlessly with her head lowered. She was utterly composed and certainly lived up to her status as empress. After all, the empress took years to get over the eldest prince's death back in the day. Cheng Xiaoxiao felt exhausted from listening to this. However, she had roughly figured it out. The woman sitting on the right of the main seat in green was imperial consort Zhao, and the one on the left was the evil imperial consort Su who liked to shit stir. She raised her paw and scratched her head. It was tiring listening to all this palace intrigue. She was going to leave!Cheng Xiaoxiao was about to head back to the pillar behind Chu Yunshen. Then she noticed the government officials on the east side of the table s
The woman danced. Then she twirled and appeared before Chu Yunshen’s table. Her white robes fluttered amid the cherry blossoms in the air. She threw her long flowy sleeve into the air towards Chu Yunshen’s shoulder. Chu Yunshen subtly avoided it with his eyes on the contents of his teacup the entire time. Pink cherry blossoms floated down and fell onto her temples, down to her sleeve, giving off a sweet-smelling scent as she danced to the music. Cheng Xiaoxiao had already figured out who the dancing woman was while she hid behind the pillar. It was her savior, Wan Xia. She leaned against the pillar and watched somewhat unhappily at Wan Xia as she kept dancing closer and closer to Chu Yunshen. Wan Xia kept gazing at Chu Yunshen with a tender look in her eyes. Although Wan Xia saved her, Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn’t let her have Chu Yunshen. Fortunately, Chu Yunshe
In ancient times, slaves had a low status to begin with. Since this was the palace, she would lose her head if she was careless. Cheng Xiaoxiao had no choice but to carry her tray and follow the rest of the maids into Qimeng Garden. After she was some distance from the palace kitchen, she halted and wanted to take off with the food. However, the maid in front of her seemed to have eyes growing behind her head. Every time she wanted to attempt something, the palace maid would remind her softly, “Keep up! Do you want to die? If the food arrives late, we will all have to get punished!” After a few tries, Cheng Xiaoxiao could detect the palace maid losing her patience. Cheng Xiaoxiao could tell that if she tried anything funny again, the palace maid would probably throw her tray at Cheng Xiaoxiao. So she finally accepted her fate and gave up escaping. The moment they entered t
What did she just do?This was the emperor’s favorite son, Prince Qing, Chu Jinshuo!In his eyes, she was just a palace maid who was at everyone’s mercy!What was he going to do to her? Cheng Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at Chu Jinshuo hopelessly at the thought. Chu Jinshuo’s thin lips curved into an evil smile. His long index finger grazed the side of his lips as he stared at her profoundly and said, “You have quite the temper! I am very surprised.” Then Chu Jinshuo reached his hand for Cheng Xiaoxiao’s waist. It might be a pleasant surprise for Chu Jinshuo, but she was terrified! Get out of the way!She was running out of time!Cheng Xiaoxiao saw claws growing out of her almost translucent fingertips. She didn’t know how much longer she could sustain human form. She quickly avoided the pervert’s hands as she moved backward. Aft
“Get in the water and pull out the insolent slave who offended the imperial consort!” A voice so hoarse that it sounded like sandpaper rubbing the ground came from the shore!“Yes, Ma’am!” The sound of people diving into the lake could be heard. Chu Yunshen happened to arrive just in time to see this. Chu Yunshen felt angry about saving a palace maid after she stole food. He was planning on taking a walk elsewhere to ease his drunkenness when he suddenly heard imperial consort Su’s piercing scream. Hence, he came over to check. A set of palace maid’s clothing floated atop of the lake while a white cat could be seen thrashing beside it.Chu Yunshen’s dark eyes stared fixedly. Wasn’t that his lion cat?What was she doing in the lake?Chu Yunshen ordered the guards in the lake, “Save the cat!”“Yes, Your Highness!” replied a guard when they heard Prince
“Yunshen! Do you not plan on talking to me forever?”The moment Cheng Xiaoxiao heard the princess talking, her scalp couldn't help going numb.“That’s not it,” replied Chu Yunshen coldly without stopping.“Then why haven’t you spoken a word to me ever since seeing me?” said Chu Mengqian anxiously as she ran behind him.She was seated three rows behind Chu Yunshen earlier. Ever since the banquet started, she kept staring at him.She kept waiting for Chu Yunshen to realize she was there. However, he didn't talk to her during the entire banquet.“I had nothing to say,” said Chu Yunshen before he headed to the horse carriage. “Brother Yunshen, let me see you off!”Chu Hongyi followed behind him. After Chu Yunshen boarded the horse carriage waiting at the palace gates, Chu Mengqian could no longer restrain herself from saying, “Yunshen!”She wrung her handke
Cheng Xiaoxiao shook her head at Chu Yunshen. Then she acted cutely and spat her tongue. Chu Yunshen stared at her with his face stiffened. Cheng Xiaoxiao could only use her killer move and pretend to sleep!She suddenly yawned and slumped her head. She rubbed her head in Chu Yunshen’s hand before she lay down sideways in his arms. Chu Yunshen was terrified. He thought she had passed out after suffering the fall into the lake. Just as he was about to get Xiaowu to bring Mu Bai, he noticed her eyelashes moving. She was pretending to sleep. Oh gosh!Never mind. He could deal with her tomorrow. Chu Yunshen shook his head helplessly. The next day at daybreak, the deafening sound of gongs and drums rang outside Prince Jing’s residence. And firecrackers kept going off. All the people nearby came over when they heard the commotion. “What’s going on? Is
Qin looked worriedly at the woman who the other concubines surrounded and said with her eyes red, “Miss! Are you okay?”“Why are you shouting? It’s not like my mistress will eat her alive, right?”A maid pushed Qin hard. Qin was caught off guard, and her head crashed right onto the pillar nearby. “AHHH!”The maids instantly screamed in shock when they saw Qin’s head covered in blood. Their mistresses turned when they heard the noise and got shocked by what they saw. “I only told you to scare her! I didn't say you could touch her! You really got us into trouble now! Hurry up and go before anyone else finds out!”“Yes, Miss!” The concubines were terrified of offending Prince Jing, so they instantly scattered. “Meow!”How could they run after hitting Qin?They were such awful people! She wanted to scratch their faces! How dare
As it turns out, a trick can lose its effectiveness after a while.The lion cat's eyes were blinking painfully, and the corners of his eyes were nearly cramped, but Chu Yunshen still had that impassive look, not even moving his eyebrows.Okay, you're tough! I say you're tough, and not a flabby earwig!The lion cat suddenly froze in his tracks, a mist rising quickly from his heterochromatic eyes.The watery eyes looked like oceans of water, and this transformation managed to scare Chu Yunshen's eyes.Chu Yunshen reached out his hand to hug the lion cat, but was stopped by the helpless expression on the lion cat's stubbornly tilted little face.A light coughing sound ended and the man's somewhat dry voice rang out:"To the Returning Sun Desert, it's windy and sandy out there."It's windy and sandy. - So?Can't you see I've got a cramp in my eye? I'm having a hard time!Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't understand what Chu Yunshen was tal
Yun Shen, what do you think about this matter?The lion cat cheered for Chu Yunshen while frantically questioning him with his eyes.What's he doing here again? You're Chu, why don't you do something?"Why don't I go to the meeting?"Mu Bai, the chatterbox, couldn't help himself, he raised his eyebrows, squinted those peach blossom eyes with interest, and said to the blackbird outside the window:"It's strange though, seeing as how it's been following us for some time now, it didn't make a move on me just now."As he spoke, he suddenly revealed an evil smile to Chu Yunshen: "It's rather like those wild bees and butterflies that chased you back then, following you over and doing nothing, but it's indeed endless."That was more than enough to make the lion cat's eyes light up.She carefully sized up Mu Bai once more, and after realizing that the other party did not look like she was joking, she jerked her head up to look at Chu Yunshen a
The lion cat looked wan and hid in Chu Yunshen's arms reflecting on her flow, not understanding just how outstanding her beauty was to be able to make even a bird so moved.Such a relentless pursuit, I'm afraid that the love is so deep that I can't even let go. Really make people head big, is not only can blame Cheng Xiaoxiao this damn charm.Blame her. Blame her for being overly beautiful.Shaking her head helplessly was just futile, Cheng Xiaoxiao still needed to give some feedback to this kind of 'avid suitor', or else if she went more and more overboard later on and did other excessive things, wouldn't it be an irresponsible behavior for everyone.Said Cheng Xiaoxiao herself was touched, she almost believed that what she had just thought was true.It's not like they don't want to go head-to-head again, at least not right now, and not want to get into any more trouble.Songtao's injuries are still not healed, Cheng Xiaoxiao herself has only jus
Every year the whole capital half of the people will come to the show, it is said that one year even the long-lasting master Chu Hongzhen have come out to see the final field in private clothes.If this token was really useful, then did this group of people intend to let him participate in the Poetry Festival?The more Ren Yanlai thought about it, the more he felt that this was more likely.After all, it wasn't as if he hadn't thought of this method before, and as long as he won the Poetry Conference at the Wangjing Teahouse in one fell swoop, he would surely be a sensation in the capital.When that time comes when everyone in the capital knows about it, he won't need to go around looking for people to line up scrolls everywhere.Only this idea was later dismissed by him, and the reason was also very simple, he did not even have the money to attend the tea house poetry party.The entry fee for the Wangjing Teahouse could not be taken on credit and
Later on, she was able to react a bit more and needed to organize her head, which was why she sized up Chu Yunshen and refused to go over.It wasn't until Chu Yunshen approached her that she smelled that all too familiar grassy fragrance.A person's olfactory memory tends to be more immediate and deeper than other memories.Only in that moment emotions swept over her like a tidal wave, all the memories of Chu Yunshen and all the things she had crossed over surrounded her quickly.Including the voice she heard in the nothingness, she also reacted to the fact that the person was Chu Yunshen.At that moment Cheng Xiaoxiao only thought of getting close to Chu Yunshen immediately, so she couldn't help but reveal her lion cat nature.Carelessness is carelessness.The lion cat that was lying in Chu Yunshen's arms again still felt slightly humiliated, she rubbed her burning face with her paws and was a little embarrassed to look up at Chu Yunshen.
The black bird snapped its head up, tilted its head back to open its beak wide, and gave a hawkish cry to the sky.This time, the eagle's cry was different from the two sounds that Chu Yunshen had just heard, originally, as long as the black bird cried, the lion cat would tremble and then enter into a state of response to the enemy.However, this did not have any effect on Chu Yunshen, he just felt it was a bit jarring to his ears.Now it's different.As soon as the black bird's voice came out, the lion cat was again in the same fried state it was in just now, and Chu Yunshen and the others covered their ears with it.Chu Yunshen couldn't spare his hands as he hugged the lion cat, and his reaction was indeed smaller.He held the lion cat in one hand, while gazing at his breath and pressing the tip of his tongue dead center against his palate. From his tense facial expression, one could tell that he would be in a state where he wouldn't dare to rel
If you ask Cheng Xiaoxia if she's happy eating now, she also thinks it's quite okay.It was just that she always felt that her back was hairy, as if a camera had been installed and someone was always watching her and Chu Yunshen.This time Cheng Xiaoxiao's intuition really didn't go wrong, not only this time, but yesterday's rain her sudden freeze was also not an illusion.The cause of it all was now stretching its wings on that bough, and it hopped and jumped from one branch to the other, looking no different from the little bird that had been squawking.However, nothing is as it seems.If it was really that bland, then Cheng Xiaoxiao wouldn't have reacted so strongly.The bowl of milky paste dwindled, and the lion cat's consciousness drifted away again.The black bird on the boughs of the tree had stopped hopping at some point, and it paid unseeing attention to that direction of the lion cat, with a strange glint in its eyes and a hint of
Songtao did things neatly, plus this was the first time Ren Yanlai had eaten and drunk enough in days and slept well, so this series of actions did not wake him up.Not only that, Ren Yanlai did not even change the sleeping position, only to maintain that side lying position until the dawn descends.As soon as dawn broke outside the broken temple, the light outside brightened up a little.The heavy rain had stopped at some point, and an unknown bird made a twittering sound on the dead tree outside the broken temple, which sounded quite cheerful, but was quickly replaced by a wail, and the original leaping instantly came to an abrupt end.Fixed his eyes to see, is that has been making noise of the bird was a black bird hard peck, scared feathers trembling, fluttering wings hurriedly flew away, the joyful bird call also naturally disappeared.The blackbird cast another oblique glance at the other birds lingering on the boughs of the tree, and wondered how
The danfeng eyes were even darker, and the eyes that looked at Ren Yanlai did not have the same indifference as a moment ago, Chu Yunshen's face was expressionless as he opened his mouth at the right time, "Xiaoxiao, you can't sit for a long time after eating, get up and move around.""Since when did we have this extra rule in our house?"Cheng Xiaoxiao was a bit bewildered, tilting her head to carefully survey Chu Yunshen, until she looked Chu Yunshen to the point of being uncomfortable she didn't withdraw her eyes.Let's just say that Chu Yunshen was out of sorts tonight, earlier she was being gentle with Ren Yanlai and now she was making demands on her.Just now I was allowed to have an extra bowl of soup, but now I'm being so harsh."All the time."When he heard Cheng Xiaoxiao's soft voice say the words 'our family', Chu Yunshen's heart jumped uncontrollably, and his danfeng eyes rose slightly with it.However, he still said those words