Chapter 391 Zi Nu: You can't blame me! (Beg for reward!)
Fusu: "..."

Facing Tianxuan's question, Fusu couldn't help but think. Even if he racked his brains, he couldn't think of anything worthy of praise about his eighteenth brother Hu Hai.

"So, among all the brothers, only you and I can really shoulder the responsibility."

Tianxuan saw that Fusu was speechless, picked up the wine pot, poured a glass of wine for each of them, and said in a firm tone.

"Alas!" Fusu came back to his senses, sighed deeply, and his tone was bleak.

Gulu!

In the past, they fought side by side. In Fusu's cognition, they were childhood friends who would repeat the story of King Zhao of Qin and Bai Qi. With the exposure of Tianxuan's life experience, he has become the biggest rival for the position of crown prince of the empire. Unfortunately, neither Tianxuan nor Fusu can take the initiative to retreat, and can only move towards the opposite side involuntarily.

With endless sorrow lingering in their hearts, Tianxuan and Fusu picked up the wine bottles as soon as the wine was poured, clinked their cups together, and drank the liquor in one gulp.

"Fourth brother, do you regret it?" Fusu's martial arts skills were not comparable to Tianxuan's, and he had not yet used his energy to dispel the alcohol. After drinking cup after cup of fine wine, Fusu's face soon turned red, and he said to Tianxuan with a little drunkenness, "Do you regret helping me to forge an emperor's heart?"

What Fusu said was not referring to anything else, but the decisive battle between Qin and Chu that year, when Tianxuan instructed him to kill Changping Jun Xiong Qi with his own hands. In this way, he showed Zhengge that in the face of the hegemony of the empire, he was decisive enough to abandon anyone!
"No regrets." Tianxuan naturally understood Fusu's meaning and replied without thinking.

"Brother, it is true that during the years I have been by your side, I have subtly transformed you into a very good heir and my rival from now on. However, I did not know my own background at the time. Even now I know that I am also the son of His Majesty. However, having two sons who can shoulder great responsibilities is better than having only one."

"If one of us dies before His Majesty, won't there be one left for His Majesty?"

In this world, it is not uncommon for people to die young in their prime. For example, Tianxuan and Fusu's great-grandfather Ying Zhu was the King Xiaowen of Qin who mourned for his father, King Zhaoxiang of Qin, for a year and died of a sudden illness three days after inheriting the throne. It was because his elder brother, Crown Prince Dao, died before King Zhaoxiang of Qin that he became the Crown Prince of Qin.

"His Majesty?"

Fusu chewed on Tianxuan's way of addressing Zheng Ge and murmured.

"Fourth brother, why do you call Father like that? Are you blaming Father?"

"It's not strange." Tianxuan did not use his power to dispel the alcohol. He shook his head after hearing Fusu's words. "A qualified emperor must consider everything he does from the perspective of the country. It is true that the reason why His Majesty knew my life experience was because I led him to find out. Before that, he never really thought of looking for me. But, I know in my heart that the reason he did this is because as the master of the empire, he has too many things to deal with and has no time to worry about these trivial matters."

At the end of his speech, a smile appeared on Tianxuan's lips, but there was no warmth in it, only a lingering chill.

"After all, he has no shortage of sons. How much status can a son whom he has never even met have in his heart?"

"However, even though I don't blame him, it doesn't mean I don't have any grudges at all!"

"Ugh!"

Although Tianxuan's words were cold, Fusu knew that what this fourth brother he had just met was absolutely right. In an instant, even though he was in the warm study, Fusu still felt a great chill spreading throughout his body from the inside out, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar filled with countless ice. He sighed heavily. "Brother, let's not talk about this anymore." Tianxuan picked up the wine bottle and gestured to Fusu, "Cheers!"

"Dry!"

Tianxuan and Fusu were childhood friends who grew up together. Although they were not blood brothers, they were as close as brothers. However, when they were confirmed to be brothers, this brotherly friendship broke down due to many factors. Although they did not say it explicitly, Tianxuan and Fusu knew in their hearts that this would be the last time they would drink together.

They drank cup after cup of fine wine, and ate all kinds of delicious dishes. After the spicy liquor entered their bodies, it was released through their pores because neither of them used their internal energy to dispel the alcohol. After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the originally elegant and book-filled study was filled with a strong smell of alcohol.

"Fourth...Fourth brother, I...I want to stay here tonight, is that okay?"

When the cups and plates were in a mess, Fusu, who was already seven-tenths drunk, stuck out his tongue, with a pair of clear eyes full of drunkenness, and said to Tianxuan.

"Of course...of course."

Tianxuan's condition was not much better than Fusu's. His cheeks were flushed and his eyes were blurred. Tianxuan agreed to Fusu's request without hesitation.

"Come... someone, take the eldest son... to the guest room to rest."

Bang!

After receiving Tianxuan's call, the two beautiful maids waiting outside pushed open the door, lifted Fusu up, one on the left and one on the right, and walked towards the guest room prepared for guests.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to drink so much?"

After Fusu was taken away by the servants, a woman wearing a fitted purple dress, with three thousand purple long hair draped over her shoulders, and skin so delicate that it seemed like water could be squeezed out of it, white with a rosy glow, comparable to jade, and possessing the charm of both a sexy goddess and an iceberg beauty, walked in. She noticed with her beautiful eyes that Tianxuan's head was shaking in the chair, and he was about to fall asleep, so she said with a hint of anger.

Although she said this, Zi Nu did not shy away from the distinction between men and women. She helped the drunk Tian Xuan up from his chair and walked him to a small bed in the study. Although Tian Xuan did not like reading very much, he was very serious about his appearance. Not only did he collect books from various schools of thought to decorate the study, he also specially prepared a small bed for himself to take a nap when he was tired.

With Zi Nu's support, Tian Xuan, whose mind was not awakened because he was unable to sense the murderous aura or murderous intent, was thrown on the small bed with his limbs spread out and his clothes in disarray.

Although she had made up her mind, when the moment really came, looking at the young man lying on the wooden bed, who was about to become her man, Zi Nu did not act immediately. She stood silently in front of Tianxuan's bed, her clear eyes churning in her eyes. Helplessness, sadness, pain and other emotions intertwined together, affecting her pretty face, turning her rosy face into blood red, even redder than Tianxuan's face which had turned red due to excessive drinking.

"My Lord, from today on, you are truly my husband!"

After a long time, Zi Nu finally moved. She placed one hand on her waist, slowly untied her belt, and murmured.

"You can't blame me! Nanyue and I have been married to the Lord for nearly a year, and before that we waited for you for twenty years. As long as you were still alive and had us in your heart, you should have come back long ago. But you never came back, and there has been no news for twenty years. Not to mention, we have no substantial relationship with you. Even if we were really married, you could have married someone else long ago when you didn't care about me for more than twenty years!"

(End of this chapter)