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n“Your Majesty and Your Grace arrive!”

nLong Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou came to the Grand Palace Banquet together, adding a hint of solemnity and…oddity.

nAlthough His Grace also attended the banquet in the previous years, His Majesty never showed up there with him and always attended the banquet with Lady Shan or Lady Rou.

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nIt seemed that His Grace gained His Majesty’s favor this year.

nWasn’t one of the ministers in charge of the two banquets Sui Youjing? He was a disciple of Shi Qingshan.

nWho was Shi Qingshan? Haha, he was the father of Empress Shi Qingzhou!

nAll the ministers present looked at each other on the sly…they didn’t know what His Majesty’s purposes were. Did he really like His Grace or did he have other ulterior motives?

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nAlthough they all had their thoughts in their mind, they all enjoyed themselves on the surface at the banquet. What a boisterous scene!

nAs the emperor, Long Xiaoyuan didn’t drink anymore after proposing a toast to all present. In his previous life, his heart was unhealthy and thereby never drank.

nAlthough the original emperor was a heavy drinker, alcohol was bad in principle, so he didn’t dare to drink much.

nHe planned to only drink one glass of liquor. His plan went well as the beginning, but when some military ministers became bold after three rounds of drinks, two generals came to propose toasts to him!

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nHe felt like weeping but had no tears. More importantly, one of the generals was his father-in-law, General Shi Qingshan!

nDid he dare to refuse the protagonist’s father’s toasts! Of course, he didn’t!

nHence, he drank three glasses in a row with a bitter face. After all, he didn’t forget his disguise, so his bitter face was relative. The original emperor was an alcoholic, so three drinks should be nothing to him!

nHowever, although Long Xiaoyuan succeeded to the original emperor’s memories, he probably didn’t get the original emperor’s drinking capacity. When Shi Qingshan and the others walked away, Long Xiaoyuan felt somewhat dizzy.

nUnder the circumstance, he didn’t notice the obscure eye contact between Shi Qingshan and Shi Qingzhou.

nShi Qingzhou tightly clenched his right fist, for he knew that his father was testing His Majesty for him, of course!

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nOtherwise, his father would have never done that…

nLong Xiaoyuan…he looked at the man beside him with complicated eyes.

nLong Xiaoyuan drank all Shi Qingshan’s toasts…did he know what it stood for?

nMany ministers watched Shi Qingshan come to propose toasts and His Majesty drink them all, involuntarily wondering whether His Majesty wanted to reuse the Shi Family!

nAfter drinking the liquor, Long Xiaoyuan felt uncomfortable and immediately looked at Shi Qingzhou. “Your Grace, can we leave first?”

nShi Qingzhou wouldn’t say no to him, so they stand up together…

n“Your Majesty is about to leave!” shouted Chief-eunuch Zhou Qing in a sharp voice.

nAll the ministers knelt down and watched them leave.

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nThe imperial concubines attending the banquet jealously watched them leaving with their eyes full of hatred.

nLady Rou and Lady Shan, who were the highest imperial concubines in the imperial palace, looked at each other, seeing the viciousness in each other’s eyes. They slowly dropped their eyelids and then glanced at each other, showing that they would work together to scheme against Shi Qingzhou.

nRegardless of what they were thinking of, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou directly went back to the Qiankun Palace.

nThe former only drank a little, but he indeed felt uncomfortable with his body full of the dryness-heat.

nThus, he said he wanted to take a bath but refused the eunuch and palace maids to serve him. He asked Shi Qingzhou to help him take a bath. The latter was rather cooperative and held him to walk toward the bathing pool.

nLong Xiaoyuan didn’t act well when Shi Qingzhou bathed him. He pulled Shi to enter the bathing pool together, making Shi soaked through.

nAfterward, he started undressing Shi. Instead of resisting him, the latter allowed him to take his clothes off.

nLong Xiaoyuan did nothing. The reason why he took Shi’s clothes off because he felt uncomfortable. After all, no one liked himself was naked while the other one was clothed.

nHaving finished the bath, he felt somewhat comfortable. However, he still leaned prone to Shi Qingzhou. Having carelessly wrapped themselves with single clothes, they headed for the sleeping chamber.

nOf course, they had sex at night. At the moment when Shi Qingzhou was sexually emotional, he asked, “Your Majesty, why did you drink when my father proposed toasts to you?”

nLong Xiaoyuan had become blurred at that time and said, “He’s your father and my father-in-law! How dare I not drink his toasts! I must drink.”

nSuch a natural reply made Shi Qingzhou feel astounded and complicated at the time.

nThat was…the reason?

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