Quick Wear: Out-of-print White Moonlight, Refusing to Fall from the Altar

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In a room filled with colorful flowers and fragrant red ribbons, the air was filled with the strong smell of cosmetics. The scattered clothes on the floor and the faintly bulging quilt on the bed all revealed what had happened last night.

A servant wearing a bowler hat came over. He didn't dare approach the bed. He just stood outside the curtain and said, "Young master, please don't sleep. The third master has sent someone to ask you to come over."

"Well…"

A hoarse sound of someone just waking up came from behind the bed curtains, and the hazy voice was filled with the irritation of being forcibly woken up.

Then the person inside sat up, and a bony hand lifted the bed curtain, revealing a long, straight leg.

Zhao Sheng appeared behind the bed curtain in disheveled clothes, rubbing his messy hair with his other hand, and a hint of moisture appeared in his hazy peach blossom eyes.

His black hair was loose, his lips were red, his teeth were white, and his jade-like skin was exposed to his chest. He looked listless. Even Ping'an, the servant who had served him for many years, did not dare to look at him for too long. He just lowered his head and stared at the floor.

Zhao Sheng didn't care much. He still had the tired air of sinking into the land of tenderness. He leaned back and fell directly into the arms of the woman behind him.

"Third Master...what could he want from me? Um...I don't want to go."

Miss Xiaoxiao caught him steadily, and her warm and soft hands brushed his hair. Although her gentle and bright face was not as stunning as Zhao Sheng's appearance that could turn everyone upside down, it was also gentle and generous, which was pleasing to the eye.

Xiao Xiao gently stroked Zhao Sheng's face and said, "If you don't want to go, then don't go. Send someone to tell the Third Master that you can continue to accompany Xiao'er, okay?"

Ping'an lowered his head even more when he heard this.

Zhao Sheng burst out laughing. "Puff, my dear sister, do you know who that Third Master is? How dare you say such a thing?"

Xiaoxiao was stunned and her face changed before she realized that she had said the wrong thing.

But after years of hanging around in Zuihonglou, she quickly reacted, lowered her neck and said, "I don't know who Xiao'er is, but she made the young master laugh."

Being able to say such words, she actually secretly hoped to keep Zhao Sheng for a while longer.

With such a handsome and wealthy man here, anyone would want to keep him for a while.

"Pfft."

Zhao Sheng curled the corners of his mouth, not hiding the sarcasm in his voice, which made Xiaoxiao lower her head even more.

Only then did Zhao Sheng stand up and leave Xiaoxiao, walking into the slightly cool air outside, and had no choice but to start dressing and packing.

"You know the Third Master, too. He's the honored guest of your good sister, Miss Ying Qin."

Xiaoxiao's face turned pale when she heard this. Ying Qin was the top courtesan in their Zuihonglou. There were not many guests at the table, and there was only one who could be called the Third Master!

Sure enough, after Zhao Sheng put on his clothes, he said proudly, "It is His Royal Highness Prince Li. Do you know now?"

Prince Li! He's a royal relative!

The late emperor’s younger brother, a powerful prince with 30,000 troops under his command to suppress the north!

He wanted to ask Zhao Sheng to come over, so how could Xiaoxiao dare to keep him?

Xiaoxiao immediately got off the bed, knelt on the ground and said, "Xiaoxiao overstepped her bounds."

Looking at her, Zhao Sheng smiled with his eyes crooked, and even his voice was a bit naughty: "Okay, it's just a joke, don't scare my good sister."

After saying that, Zhao Sheng tidied his clothes, picked up the folding fan beside him and walked out.

After walking out of the room, Zhao Sheng yawned. It felt really uncomfortable to be woken up from the arms of comfort.

Ping'an quickly caught up from behind. He had been Zhao Sheng's playmate for many years.

So I wasn't really afraid of him, I just walked beside him and asked, "Sir, what about this?"

He pointed to the closed room at the back and signaled to the people inside: "Are you still booked for tonight?"

Zhao Sheng rolled his eyes and thought for a moment, "I remember that the Jiang family's daughter is coming from Pei County today, right?"

The Jiang family is a merchant family that is the largest supplier of silk textiles in Beijing. Their eldest daughter, Jiang Ruyi, has been Zhao Sheng's engagement partner since childhood.

It’s just that Jiang Ruyi was in poor health and had been staying in her hometown before, so we had never met.

Now that Zhao Sheng is seventeen years old and about to get married, even if Jiang Ruyi is in poor health, it is time for her to get married, so she was recently brought here from her hometown of Pei County.

I heard that the eldest daughter of the Jiang family is just a concubine and has never been favored.

Zhao's father even had a quarrel with the Jiang family over this matter, saying how could such a illegitimate girl marry Zhao Sheng.

So they hurriedly brought the person over from the countryside, but Zhao's father and mother were still not satisfied.

Being out of favor means that Jiang Ruyi has no power in the Jiang family and may be abandoned by the Jiang family at any time and cannot provide any help to Zhao Sheng.

They were already discussing how to cancel the engagement, and were finding all kinds of faults with the marriage, without even notifying Zhao Sheng.

But Zhao Sheng had many friends in the capital, and the news that his fiancée was coming had already reached his ears.

Before today, Zhao Sheng just smiled and ignored them. Those noblemen laughed at him for marrying a country girl, as if they had already determined that Zhao Sheng would marry her.

Haha, Zhao Sheng just wanted to say that it is not certain whether they can get married.

Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng opened his folding fan with a swish, and the fan flipped over to reveal four big characters: "Romance and Frivolity".

When I went downstairs, I saw King Li’s guards.

Zhao Sheng, who was originally lazy, immediately laughed when he saw the guard downstairs wearing a sword and with a cold expression.

"It's Brother Langsu. In the past, Third Master always asked Brother Cai to come over. Why did you come today? I'm really a little worried. Could it be that I have done something recently that has offended Third Master?"

He had curved eyebrows, was dressed in a dashing emerald green silk, and wore a jade pendant, which attracted a lot of attention. However, he fawned over a guard in a servile manner.

Lang Su hated flatterers the most in his life, and Zhao Sheng happened to be the worst of them. No matter how good-looking Zhao Sheng was, he always had a cold face.

He just said, "You'll know when you go there."

Then he led the way and got on the horse at the gate of Zuihonglou.

"... "

Zhao Sheng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he smiled. He wanted to vomit when he saw Lang Su's cold face. Who would a guard look down on?

But considering that the other party was King Li's man, he said nothing and got on the carriage behind.

In the carriage, Zhao Sheng pinched the grapes in the carriage with his fingers and bit them, his eyes almost rolling in his eyes.

He was holding his breath. Why was it Lang Su who came to call him this time?

Isn’t this the Third Master’s personal bodyguard?

The Third Master would ask him to come and call him, probably because something big had happened, but Lang Su was a tight-lipped person and would not tell him anything.

Damn it, Lang Su better hope he doesn't fall into his hands! Otherwise, he'll be in trouble!

As he was thinking this, the carriage soon arrived at a teahouse.

When Zhao Sheng got off the carriage, his anger had mostly subsided, and he forced a smile at Lang Su.

He was angry, but Langsu was an official and he was a citizen, so he understood the principle that citizens should not fight against officials.