When Mu Qingchao heard this, his heart skipped a beat.
"I……"
Just when she didn't know how to answer, Shen Muchi continued: "I heard that I want to watch the fireworks with my important people."
"But in the past, my father was always with my brother, and even you were with Jiang Bo. No one ever watched the fireworks with me."
When he said this, his eyes were a little lonely.
Indescribable sadness and loneliness.
But it was only for a moment, and in the blink of an eye, his eyes lit up again.
He smiled, but that smile... was a bit far-fetched no matter how you looked at it.
"But it's fine now." He said.
"Now that I have you, the Queen Mother, from now on, you can watch the fireworks with me every year, okay?"
He held her hand and looked at her. His eyes reflected the light of fireworks, which were clearly extinguishing.
He must have drank plum wine, and there was a very light smell of plums on his body.
Mu Qingchao shrank back slightly. She swallowed and spoke hesitantly: "Your Majesty, I..."
"Shh..."
Halfway through her words, Shen Muchi pressed her lips.
"I'm in a good mood today and don't want to hear those unhappy words."
He was drunk, and he didn't want to wake up. It would be better to give himself a dream today, even if it was short-lived and fragile, he didn't want to wake up today.
He looked down at her and suddenly noticed something.
"Why don't you wear the jewelry I gave you?"
She originally planned to go to bed, so all the colorful hair on her head was removed. There was no black silk on her hair, except for the jasmine hairpin that she didn't have time to take off.
"I don't want to wear it." Mu Qingchao's tone was not good.
Shen Muchi touched her hairpin smoothly. "This hairpin is nice to look at, but it's too plain and not worthy of you."
As he spoke, he took off the hairpin from her head.
Seeing the hairpin fall on his hand, Mu Qingchao's heart tightened.
She subconsciously reached out to grab it.
"Give it back to me."
Shen Muchi saw a nervous look in her eyes.
"What? Do you care about this hairpin? Is this what he gave you?" he asked.
Mu Qingchao did not answer. He just looked at him and said forcefully: "That's my thing. Please return it to me, Your Majesty."
One sentence made Shen Muchi's heart sting.
No matter how carefully he weaves the dream, it is so vulnerable.
"Haha." He laughed.
"I gave you so many things, but you didn't wear them. He just gave you a hairpin, and you treated it like a treasure."
"That's different, that..."
Mu Qingchao was about to say something, but Shen Muchi grabbed him.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Mu Qingchao shouted.
The next second, she was pressed in front of the dressing mirror.
She struggled to stand up, but was held down by Shen Muchi, unable to move.
"Shen Muchi, what on earth do you want to do?" she shouted loudly.
Shen Muchi opened her dressing box.
She asked Chun Ya to pack up the gifts given by the emperor and find a place to put them, so Chun Ya picked two and put them in her dowry.
"Look, doesn't this nine-phoenix hairpin with pearls look good? Why doesn't the Queen Mother wear it?"
While he was talking, he had already picked up the hairpin and pinned it on her bun.
He looked at the bronze mirror in front of him and caressed her cheek with some lust, with a look of obsession in his eyes: "Look, Queen Mother, this hairpin really suits you better."
His fingers crossed, making Mu Qingchao's hair stand on end.
"Shen Muchi, what on earth do you want to do?" She couldn't help but tears fell heavily.
She has experienced so many things. When she was fighting wits and courage with the entire Zhong family, she was calm and composed. When she was having a life-or-death struggle with the princess of Zhenguo in the mountains, she never blinked.
But now, she has no idea at all.
She was trapped here, unable to escape or break free. This feeling of powerlessness made her extremely uncomfortable.
"Why is the Queen Mother crying?"
Shen Muchi looked at her tears and looked a little distressed.
He squatted in front of her and looked up at her: "Did I do something wrong? Did I make the Queen Mother unhappy?"
"Queen Mother, tell me, can you tell me?"
What else did he want her to say?
Mu Qingchao, however, could not utter a word and just let his tears fall down.
Unexpectedly, Shen Muchi grabbed her hand and put it on his face.
There was a "snap", loud and crisp, which made Mu Qingchao's fingers numb. It was obvious that he had done it ruthlessly.
This slap made Mu Qingchao stunned for a moment.
"You...what are you doing?" Mu Qingchao asked with a trembling voice.
"I have made the Queen Mother unhappy. Can the Queen Mother beat me?" he said.
His look frightened Mu Qingchao.
Before she could recover, he took her hand and slapped her on the other half of his face again.
"Has the Queen Mother calmed down?" he asked.
"Has the Queen Mother calmed down?" he asked again.
Mu Qingchao only felt terrible. His tears became increasingly uncontrollable and fell down in large pieces.
"Madman, you madman..." she cried.
**
On the other side of Qinghe County, Prince Qinghe sat there all night. On the second day, he finally made up his mind.
He consulted with the princess.
"I want to...enter Jinling." Prince Qinghe said.
He never thought that the princess would refuse. After so many years, the princess would never ask him anything he wanted to do.
He just felt a little sorry for her, so he felt a little guilty when he said this.
"What is the prince doing in Jinling?"
"Find the Queen Mother and take revenge." Prince Qinghe said these five words without any hesitation.
Obviously, he had already considered this decision carefully. He went to see the princess today to inform him, not to discuss it.
"Actually, the letter Jing Rong sent to the king was not from Jing Rong, but was sent by the princess before she died. The princess is wronged, and I cannot sit idly by and ignore it no matter what."
"So? Why did the prince and I say these things?" the princess asked.
"I just want to...ask what you mean."
"If I don't let you go, will the prince change his mind?"
Before saying this, Prince Qinghe imagined many reactions of the princess after hearing the news.
You may be worried, you may be dissuaded, even if you get angry and scold him, he can understand it.
But he didn't expect that there was only such a light question.
Prince Qinghe opened his mouth and said two words after a moment: "No...no way..."
"That's it."
The princess said: "Since my opinion is not important, why does the prince come to ask me what to do? If you want to do what the prince has decided, just do it."
When the princess said this, she paused again.
"However... I have heard that the Queen Mother in the palace is not a simple person. Putting aside the issue of identity, there always seems to be some unclear relationship between her and Your Majesty.
Even someone like Princess Zhenguo lost her life to the Queen Mother. I'm afraid it won't be easy for the prince to seek revenge from the Queen Mother."
When the prince heard this, his eyes darkened.
"Does the princess know what is next to our Qinghe County?"