"Beauty Belle Su, please enter."

Making her way into the study chamber, the sight of Xuan Di once again made butterflies in her stomach, the shy womanly behavior along with the modest dress that she is wearing, does show a contrast.

"Your Imperial Majesty, your lowly consort is here."

"What business do you have?"

"It has been awhile since I see your Imperial Majesty, with much yearning for you, without me knowing, I actually made some dessert with love poured into them. Would like to seek your permission to allow you to try them."

Xuan Di then look at Beauty Belle Su and dismissed the palace servants to allow some private time.

Heading towards the table that she has set out for the dessert, he then take a seat while Beauty Belle Su fed him one cake. But before he bite down, a familiar scent made him push away the delicate hand and with one swipe, the plate of desserts are now on the floor.

As Beauty Belle Su is caught off-guard by the sudden change in attitude, she kneel down immediately with her head bow low on the ground.

"Your... your Imperial Majesty! Please pardon me for any mistake I made!" Beauty Belle Su beg for forgiveness without knowing what she trigger him with.

"Oh. What mistake have you done?"

Now Xuan Di looking down at this consort of his with little emotions, as though she is just a lowly human being that he don't care.

"I ... I .."

"If you are unsure, then let me say it. Do you know the punishment of spiking food of the Emperor of Xuan? Immediate execution."

As her body trembled with fear, she did not realised how strong Xuan Di is with his sense. She is certain that the aphrodisiac drug that she got is of high-quality herbs that cannot be easily detected.

She thought by adding a small amount of that drug, she can increase his sexual cravings and then she will use this chance to bed with him.

Little did she know Xuan Di knew it the moment she enter with the basket of dessert, he has been waiting for the chance to punish her because of the plans she carried out against Jae-in previously.

This chance was given by Beauty Belle Su herself.

"Your Imperial Majesty! I am sorry! Please forgive me!"

"Men! Drag Beauty Belle Su out of here, bench her 50 times and shall strip her title of Beauty Belle Su and demote her to be a palace lady."

"NO NO NO! PLEASE YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY! I AM WRONG! I KNOW MY WRONG! PLEASE DON'T STRIP MY TITLE!" Beauty Belle Su shouted with tears running down her face, ruining the makeup that she wore as she is being dragged out roughly by the knights.

Returning back to his chair, he pick up his brush once more and continued his work.

"Any updates?" He questioned.

"Your Imperial Majesty, your lowly servant has prepared everything as accordance to your trip to Kai Kingdom. The double to stand in for your presence here in Xuan Kingdom is ready, the notification of Xuan Kingdom dispatching an ambassador to Kai Kingdom has been delivered. Everything is ready, as long as you want to leave, we are ready."

Eunuch Gao, who did not leave the room, notified Xuan Di on the status of his mission.

"En. Good. Make sure the double is properly trained and I will announce a dismissal of morning assembly for 2 months."

"Yes your Imperial Majesty."

"Playing for months, it's time for you to come home." Xuan Di muttered.

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Click-Clack. The sound of the lid brushing on the tea cup disrupt the heavy atmosphere. In the room, there sits Qi Zheng who is blowing the hot tea serve to him, ignoring the beauty in front of him, who is refraining her tears from falling.

With little patience, he then smash the hot tea onto the floor, such aggressive behavior shook the beauty as she jump in fear.

"What kind of trashy tea is this? Such temperature, are you guys trying make me burn my tongue?" Qi Zheng shouted.

Swiping his long sleeve behind his back, he walk towards the door, leaving the beauty sitting on the chair with her head hanging low.

"I believe my precious will be able to complete what I have assigned you." Leaving this sentence as he left the place.

Swallowing all the humiliation, frustration and hurt within her, she shakily answered with tears finally escaping her eyes.

"Yes, my love."

***

"Master, I have received a relay of message from the servant of his crown prince. He said to meet you at Xiang Hua Lou at 7pm. No sight of you, no way he will be leaving."

Qi Yuan casually clean his sword with a white cloth as he hear Qing Feng's word.

"Master, Qing Feng feels that this is a trap. He is not going to let go of the insults you gave him weeks ago."

"But us not going according to his moves, won't he be disappointed?" Qi Yuan chuckled.

"So, master are you going?"

"Of course! Let's stick to the usual."

"Huh? Master! We are going to do 'that' again?" Qing Feng raised his voice a little to show his anxiety.

Ignoring the reaction of Qing Feng, Qi Yuan head to his wardrobe and open the doors, revealing the clothes that he have. Qing Feng follow behind as usual, waiting for his master's order. Glancing through the clothes, Qi Yuan finally picked out one of his favorite dark blue robe and threw it towards Qing Feng.

Grabbing hold of his master's clothes, Qing Feng sigh in defeat as he knew he will have to do 'that' again.

"Shall leave everything to you then!"

Qi Yuan then happily skipped out of the room, heading towards the direction of Jae-in's quarters.

Wearing the dark blue outfit with a fan on his hand, Qing Feng, who is currently wearing a face mask of his master, stop at the entrance of Xiang Hua Lou. A place that his master always go to for the companionship of ladies and gathering information.

Slapping the fan onto his palm, he closed his eyes and the next moment he open them, the aura that he carry, the steps that he make is identical to Qi Yuan, unless you are his close aide, you can never imagine this person right here is not Qi Yuan.

Heading into the lobby, the mama-san who is in-charge of the ladies here came to greet him.

"Oh my oh my! What a surprise! Qi Gong Zi, it has been awhile since you come here! Our ladies has been missing you so much!"

"Mama! I also missed those ladies so much that it hurts my heart to hear that they are suffering the same yearning as I do. However, today I am here to meet a valuable guest, so apologies for not meeting my beauties."

"What kind of words are you saying!! We do not deserve such attention from a highly regarded Gong Zi! Come come, let me guide you to the room as your valuable guest has been waiting!"

With the mama-san leading Qing Feng up the stairs towards the 2nd floor, a suddenly collision with a young lady happened, causing her to fall to the ground with her hair pin falling out of her hair.

"What on earth! You this wrench! How dare you bang into our Gong Zi!" Mama-san scolded the lady.

"I am sorry! So Sorry! Please forgive me!"

Recalling the persona that Qi Yuan has, Qing Feng then reach out to help the lady up on her feet, then bend over to pick up the hair pin to return to its owner. With a blushing red face, the lady accepted this gentleman action.

Probably the hair pin was too sharp, as the lady pull the pin towards her, unintentionally caused a cut on Qing Feng's finger. Seeing blood flowing from the wound, the lady's face immediately paled with fear.

Sensing the fear from the lady and mama-san, Qing Feng decided to play cool.

"It's a small wound, no worries! Mama, please guide me to the room."

After that small incident, Qing Feng finally reach the entrance of the room. Without the presence of the mama-san, he carefully push open the wooden doors. Inside this private room, the round table filled with luxury food and wine, came to sight.

Observing the room, the crown prince is nowhere to be seen. With the dimly lit room and the hanging lantern on the side, Qing Feng carefully enter the room with his guard on.

"Yo, Brother Qi Zheng, where are you? Your lovely brother is here."

Taking a seat, he acted as though nothing was wrong in this weird atmosphere.

Suddenly, the beads that hang loosely in front of the bed, which acts as a veil to cover a maiden who sleep there, moved as a lady with jaded white hands push them aside.

A lady, dressed in a provocative outfit, with thin material pink chiffon cloth that traced her thin arms, exposed her neck area with hair being up with golden pins. Gracefully, she walk towards Qing Feng and sat on his thigh.

Pouring a cup of wine, she then seductively bring the cup towards Qing Feng's mouth.

"Come my master, please drink this wine before we start the night."

Not moving an inch to drink it, Qing Feng suspect that this wine is definitely drugged.

"Bao bei (Precious)! How can I drink when such a beauty in front of me is not going to drink with me?"

"Then, your lowly servant shall drink first."

With a single shot down into her throat, she then offered a new cup of wine to Qing Feng.

"Bao bei, come tell me where is my valuable guest who invites me here? After I finish my business with him, I will come find you."

Qing Feng questioned playfully while taking the cup of wine in his hand, with no intention of drinking them.

"My master, I am the gift from your valuable guest. He told me to tell you that tonight, I am yours to play with and even if I were to die under you, you will need not shoulder any responsibilities." The beauty wrap her arms around Qing Feng, leaning closer to him for a kiss.

The strong scent of perfume irritates Qing Feng's nose and creases appeared on his forehead. Pushing her away from him, he then observe the room.

'Hm, at least there is one window that faces directly at the streets.'

A sudden hug from behind by the beauty, made Qing Feng distracted for a moment, using that chance, she quickly reach for the lower belt, attempting to strip his naked. Not holding back his strength, he used his arm to slap her away from his back and she fell onto the floor with red cheeks.

Just as he want to leave the room, a sudden heat rose within him, making him lose the energy that he once had.

'I am drugged?' Qing Feng thought.

'But I did not eat a single thing from this room, what could be the cause of it?'

The injured beauty who remain on the floor started laughing as Qing Feng's face show his bewildered expression.

"My master, of course there is no way we will drug the food because it is just a low-level method."

'The pin!' His eyes lit up with realisation.

As the beauty has been observing him, she knew that he got his answer.

"Yes, that's right! That pin has been laced with aphrodisiac drug that will need to be in your blood system to trigger the effect, however this is no ordinary aphrodisiac drug as it is developed by the fine lord of 'Thousand Death'. In this world, there is only 3 pills of it, be honoured that you have been fed with this extraordinary drug.

Oh before I forget, there is no remedy for it. If you don't bed with a woman in the next 2 hours, your blood vessels will soon unable to withstand the expansion of blood flow, your body heat will increase so much that you might even burn your brain. So, why not let me be your remedy? Master"

The beauty crawled on her knees slowly towards Qing Feng. A disgusted feeling filled him and he immediately instruct himself to escape. Heading towards the window, he jumped off and land perfectly on the floor, forgetting his fan.

Taking a single glance at the busy street, out of hundreds of people, he saw her.

As though it was a miracle of fate, he then lock his target onto her, leaping towards his prey with his Qing gong, he grab hold of her shoulder and spin her around, revealing her shock face.

Yu-ji just left the medicine hall with the medicine herbs to be brewed later when she go back. In the day, she felt uncomfortable and dizzy so she requested her missy to give her permission to grab some medicine and take a day off.

After getting the diagnosis from the doctor, then she realised that she is having a high fever from the cold that she caught a few days ago. Thanking the doctor with the packed medicine herbs in her hand, she walk out of the hall and head towards the direction of Qi Yuan manor.

Just within seconds, a rough hand grab hold of her shoulders and spin her away. With the face of Qing Feng appeared in front of her, a part of her became relieved.

Not noticing something wrong with him, she push him away.

"What are you doing in the streets? How can you just tou..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Qing Feng lift her up and carry her on his shoulder, running towards the secret place he have in mind.