Chapter 288: What a Shame (I)

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

The morning suns.h.i.+ne flooded into the room.

In the bedroom of the emperor and the empress, Long seemed to be continuing the beautiful dream of last night.

Because he didn’t have to hold the morning meeting this day, Long didn’t have any pressure at all. Having nothing to worry about, Long was sleeping peacefully.

s.h.i.+ didn’t wake up, either. He was sleeping as a log.

The sunlight came through the window. After a long time, Long finally yawned lazily and opened his eyes. Instead of getting up, he turned his head and looked at the person beside him.

His empress was still sleeping.

Long blinked. Looked at s.h.i.+’s beautiful face, he smiled.

With his lips curving up, Long leaned forward and kissed s.h.i.+’s lips.

When their lips touched, s.h.i.+ opened his eyes.

His long eyelashes flickered and rubbed Long’s face.

That subtle feeling made Long have a surge of desire for s.h.i.+.

Therefore, he looked at s.h.i.+ with eyes full of tenderness.

“Qingzhou…” Long called s.h.i.+’s name softly, so that s.h.i.+ could clearly feel his desire through his soft voice.

s.h.i.+ blinked. “Hmm?”

Long pecked s.h.i.+ on the lips, and then he did it again.

s.h.i.+ narrowed his eyes slightly. “You……”

When s.h.i.+ just said one word, Long’s lips had already pressed against s.h.i.+’s…

About two hours later, Long finally let go of s.h.i.+ with satisfaction. s.h.i.+ was a little tired, and Long carried s.h.i.+ in his arms.

s.h.i.+ just glanced at him lazily.

Long said softly, “Qingzhou, you can sleep for a while. I will bath you.”

s.h.i.+ really didn’t have much strength, so after hearing Long’s words, he directly closed his eyes.

Long carried him to the hot spring and put him down carefully.

s.h.i.+ was very obedient, with his whole body curling up in Long’s arms.

Long bathed his empress very gently.

s.h.i.+ was so comfortable that he felt drowsy.

After Long finished, s.h.i.+ was already asleep.

Long put him on the big bed and covered him with a quilt before leaving.

Liu Xiangyang was already waiting outside.

Long said, “Don’t disturb Qingzhou. Let’s go out first.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Liu Xiangyang responded and followed Long out of the room.

When he got outside, Long first asked the servants to prepare the breakfast and he specially told them that it didn’t need to be sumptuous.

While eating, Long looked inside from time to time, but s.h.i.+ still didn’t wake up after he finished.

That was understandable. He just fell asleep. How could he wake up so soon?

In late morning, when Long had finished dealing with most of his memorials, s.h.i.+ finally woke up.

When s.h.i.+ came out, Long immediately went towards him. “Qingzhou, you are awake.”

“Yes.” s.h.i.+ nodded and he was in good spirits.

“You must be starving,” Long said with concern.

s.h.i.+ rolled his eyes. “I’m not that hungry as you said.”

Long blinked. “Impossible. Qingzhou, you must be starving.”

s.h.i.+ didn’t want to talk about this with Long, so he just said, “How is Liu Suifeng?”

“Don’t worry. Bad guys tend to live a long life. Everything is going very smoothly these days. Liu Suifeng said he will recover in less than ten days.” Although Long said that as if he disliked Liu, the relaxed tone showed that he was in a good mood.

“That’s good.” s.h.i.+ nodded. “Okay, I’ll have breakfast.”

“It’s all prepared. I’ll ask the servants to deliver it.”

Soon, breakfast was delivered. Although it was quite late, it still wasn’t time for lunch. So Long also ate a little with s.h.i.+.

When the two of them were still eating, Liu Suifeng and Ouyang Chuan came over.

Liu could get out of bed and walk around, but his internal strength was still restricted. It would take ten days to fully recover. Looking at Liu coming over, Long joked, “You’re almost disabled. Why don’t you just lie on the bed? You shouldn’t have run around.”

Liu rolled his eyes. “What are you talking about? Who’s disabled? That’s nonsense!”

If Long was not the emperor, Liu would really curse him. What would you expect from a pig but a grunt?

However, considering Long’s ident.i.ty, Liu controlled himself and didn’t say anything.

Ouyang took Liu’s hand and sat down at the table.

“Haven’t you had breakfast, either?” Long asked with doubts.

Ouyang nodded directly. “No, we haven’t eaten yet.”

Long looked at the two men in surprise. “What have you done last night? Why haven’t you had breakfast yet?”

Ouyang felt a little embarra.s.sed. “What do you think we’ve done?” He felt that Long’s words… had some implied meaning. “We didn’t do that. We just did research!”

“Research?” Long blinked. “Research on what? You researched on which posture could make you more comfortable?”

Ouyang was not the only one who felt embarra.s.sed at this moment. Liu and s.h.i.+ were also surprised to hear that.

“What the h.e.l.l are you thinking about all day long?” Ouyang said angrily.

Ouyang was the submissive one in his relations.h.i.+p with Liu, so he was very sensitive to such topics. Of course, he didn’t want others to mention it at all!

Long curled his lips as if he was wronged. “I didn’t think about anything else. Your words were too ambiguous. How can you blame me?”

Ouyang felt even more embarra.s.sed.

Long chuckled. “All right, I misunderstood you. I thought too much. Please forgive me. Well… what did you research then? Is there anything else you can research?”

Ouyang became speechless.

Liu said unhappily, “We studied medicinal materials.”

“Huh?” Long looked at Liu in surprise, as if he had heard some joke. “You studied medicinal materials?

You two did it together? Does Ouyang know anything about that?”

The contempt in his words made Ouyang so angry that he wanted to kill him! “You… Don’t look down on me!”

“Uh…” Long blinked, realizing that Ouyang really got angry.

“Why did you study medicinal materials?” s.h.i.+ tried to smooth things over.

Long quickly nodded his head. “Right. Why did you study medicinal materials?”

Liu smiled faintly, “Brother Ouyang wanted to know more about those things, so we studied together.”

“What?” Long turned to look at Ouyang and it seemed that his look was still contemptuous!

“He is no longer young. Can he still learn that?”

s.h.i.+ really didn’t know what to do, thinking that why this person liked to offend people so much.

Ouyang glared at Long and directly stood up from the chair. Then… he ran away.

After Ouyang ran away, Liu looked at Long helplessly.

“If you have any problem, you can just talk to me in private. Brother Ouyang doesn’t stay with me all the time. Why do you have to anger him like this?”

Liu loved Ouyang deeply, so Liu felt so sorry for him at this moment.

Long blinked innocently. “I didn’t expect that he’d get angry so easily!”

The corners of Liu’s mouth twitched. “So you mean it’s his fault?”

Long blinked and smiled awkwardly. “No, no, I didn’t mean that.”

Liu curled his lips. “Now tell me. What do you want to say?”

“Well… nothing serious. I just feel that there’s something wrong with your Brother Ouyang these days, so I want to ask if he has been affected by something and hasn’t recovered.”

Liu didn’t say anything after hearing the words. After a while, he shook his head. “That’s not the case.”

“Oh?” Long raised his eyebrows. “Then what’s wrong with him?”

Liu looked at him. “I don’t know how to explain it. I only know… Brother Ouyang is indeed a little weird, but I don’t think he’s been affected by anything.”