GTB Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Building Together?

Shí Yan lightly sipped the wine in his hand, looking at Jiang Jiuchu. “Then… what do you want?”

Jiang Jiuchu’s eyes immediately lit up at his question, as if she saw hope. She quickly said, “You let that Li Governess return to the palace! Don’t stay here with us.”

Hearing her phrase “here with us,” Shí Yan seemed to feel quite good. He patiently asked, “But after all, she was sent by the Imperial Grandmother, so I’m afraid it won’t be easy for me to dismiss her. Why don’t you teach this Prince how to send Li Governess back?”

Seeing that Jiang Jiuchu’s small face was flushed, but her eyes were rolling very cleverly, Shí Yan picked up the wine pot again and continued to pour her another cup.

“Come, no rush, think while you drink.”

“Okay.” Jiang Jiuchu nodded, adjusted her sitting posture, propped her cheek with one hand, and raised the wine cup in the other to her lips, fully demonstrating “thinking while drinking.”

Seeing her like this, Shí Yan’s eyes contained a smile. This woman was quite likable when she was obedient.

After finishing a cup of wine, Jiang Jiuchu still didn’t seem to have come up with any particularly satisfactory solution, so she had to offer a few imperfect methods, wanting to hear what Shí Yan would say.

“Or you could say you’re worried about the Empress Dowager and have Li Governess go back to take care of her? Wasn’t she here to teach me how to manage the accounts? I’ve already finished reading them.”

“There’s also a possibly more vicious method. You could just say that Li Governess doesn’t serve well, that you don’t like her, and just let her go?”

Shí Yan was speechless, thinking, “These are the methods she came up with after thinking for so long? I really don’t know if she’s too stupid or drunk.”

He pretended to think seriously for a while, and finally slowly shook his head. “I’m afraid that won’t work. First of all, the Empress Dowager has no shortage of people to serve her. Li Governess knows this better than anyone, so she definitely won’t leave.”

“The second method is also inappropriate, because if you say she doesn’t serve well, there must be a reason. If you just say she doesn’t serve well for no reason, wouldn’t that be deliberately going against the Imperial Grandmother? That won’t do.”

Jiang Jiuchu sighed heavily. It wasn’t that she hadn’t thought of finding a reason, but that would be slandering Li Governess, wouldn’t it?

She was already an old lady, how could she withstand their slander? She definitely couldn’t do such a thing. What if she was forced to death? That would be a sin.

As she thought about it, she seemed to feel a little dizzy. She raised her hand and touched her slightly hot face, looking at Shí Yan and asking, “Are you hot? Why do I feel like this wine is a little hot? Am I drunk?”

Her straightforward question made Shí Yan pause slightly. He thought for a moment and said, “I’m not hot. Maybe everyone’s constitution is different. This shouldn’t be drunkenness, right?”

Jiang Jiuchu nodded. “Yes, you’re right.” After all, she had never seen anyone who could be as clear-headed as she was after getting drunk.

“Right, where were we just talking?”

Shí Yan coughed, somewhat guiltily reminding her, “We were talking about… the methods you thought of are not appropriate. Li Governess probably can’t leave for the time being.”

“Oh, right! Then what should we do?” Jiang Jiuchu looked at Shí Yan, her breathing a little heavy, feeling that he didn’t seem so difficult to talk to. She bargained with him, “I can’t just keep freezing, right? I’m afraid of the cold.”

“But this Prince is also afraid of the cold. How about… building together?” Shí Yan tentatively asked, his eyes fixed on Jiang Jiuchu.

However, he saw the little girl’s gaze move directly down to his chest. “If you’re afraid of the cold, why don’t you pull your clothes up properly? Your chest is all exposed. Don’t you feel chilly?”

“…Cough, cough, a little.” Shí Yan awkwardly pulled at his lapel, doubting his charm for the first time.

Seeing that he had pulled up his clothes, Jiang Jiuchu said, “That’s more like it! I was too embarrassed to look just now, otherwise I would have reminded you long ago.”

Shí Yan was speechless for a moment. She was embarrassed just now, but now she’s not? When other people get drunk, their minds are unclear, but when she gets drunk, her skin gets thicker?

Jiang Jiuchu frowned and thought for a moment. “Oh dear! What were we just talking about? It seems like there’s an important matter that hasn’t been resolved yet!”

Shí Yan felt that her reaction after getting drunk had to be added to amnesia. He directly reminded her with action, getting up and walking towards the bed.

Seeing Shí Yan getting into bed and covering himself with the quilt, Jiang Jiuchu suddenly understood. She immediately got up and walked to the bed, “If you cover yourself, what am I going to cover myself with?”

Shí Yan indifferently suggested, “Wouldn’t it be fine to just cover together?”

Jiang Jiuchu resolutely refused, “No, we can’t cover together.”

“Why? You and I are husband and wife, why can’t we cover together?” Shí Yan leaned against the edge of the bed, looking at Jiang Jiuchu standing beside him, looking very puzzled.

“We agreed to be fake husband and wife, how can we cover a quilt together? It’s too intimate. What if you… kiss me again?”

Shí Yan was stunned when he heard this. Had he kissed her? That night in the pool, he seemed to be unable to control himself from wanting to kiss her.

But he had only just touched her when she kicked him in a sneak attack. He really had no impression, it was not as good as…

His eyes darkened, his gaze falling on her waist, thinking, “He had held her waist for a long time, and it was deeply remembered.”

He suppressed the churning emotions in his heart, looking at the half-drunk Jiang Jiuchu in front of him, suddenly a little curious, would she still remember tonight’s conversation tomorrow?

“Then… let’s be a real husband and wife.”

Jiang Jiuchu’s eyes widened instantly when she heard this. She looked at Shí Yan in disbelief for a long time, then said angrily, “No, I don’t want to become a real husband and wife with you just for a quilt. I would rather freeze to death than do that.”

She said angrily, turning around and wanting to walk to the table, not even wanting to get on the bed. At worst, she wouldn’t sleep.

Shí Yan’s eyes darkened, and he immediately stretched out his long arm, grabbing Jiang Jiuchu and pulling her onto the bed, then leaning over her.

“Oh! So firm? Why don’t you tell me why?”

As he spoke, he threatened, approaching Jiang Jiuchu’s lips, “If you don’t give me a reason, I will…”

Jiang Jiuchu was shocked, and quickly raised her hand to cover Shí Yan’s mouth, opening her mouth urgently, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk, is that okay? What’s the big deal.”

Her soft little hand covered Shí Yan’s lips. Looking at the pink lips close at hand, his throat rolled twice involuntarily.

He had always thought that he was indifferent in nature and did not covet pleasure, but she made him inexplicably want to get close. It turned out that the initial pleasing to the eye was just the beginning.

Jiang Jiuchu hated men who disrespected women like this. Just for the sake of covering a quilt, he wanted to become a real husband and wife with her. Was her innocence only worth a quilt?

“Why do you ask? Don’t you think I’m at a disadvantage? Just for a quilt, I have to become that what real husband and wife with you? You’re really thinking straight!”

“When you have someone you like in the future, or three wives and four concubines, then someone like me who has no feelings for you will not be thrown by you into a small broken courtyard with falling leaves?”

As Jiang Jiuchu spoke, she saw Shí Yan’s eyes widen, as if he was about to retort. She continued, “Of course, it is also possible not to be kicked out, but I, Jiang Jiuchu, don’t want a man who embraces other women all day long. I find it dirty.”

As she spoke, the look in her eyes towards the person in front of her gradually became disgusted, as if Shí Yan had already done this in her mind, or was definitely the kind of person who would do this.

She “Pooh” a few times at the person in front of her, and all the wine breath was sprayed on the back of her hand.

Seeing Shí Yan staring at her, wanting to take her hand away, she immediately tightened the hand covering his mouth, and quickly opened her mouth and said:

“What if… what if you have good luck one day and become the emperor, then it won’t just be three wives and four concubines, but three palaces and six courtyards! It makes me feel like it will be vast.”

“Wouldn’t I be a sucker at that time, helping you manage your women every day!”

She said here, paused, and said again: “No, this sucker at least has the title of empress, maybe you treasure it very much, and you won’t let me be it!”