The Queen's Rise to the Top

Chapter 85

9 PM.

Gu Beihuai returned to his apartment and went upstairs to the balcony garden outside the tea room on the second floor.

The sky garden in this modern metropolis was an extremely rare sight.

The penthouse duplex apartments on the top floor of Jigong Mansion, although the gardens of the two households were not connected, the one and a half meter high glass railing was merely a formality.

Fortunately, the penthouse duplex apartments on the top floor of Jigong Mansion were reserved property, generally for the real estate developer’s bosses to keep for themselves or give away as luxury gifts.

They could not be purchased through normal channels.

People who could get reserved properties were either wealthy or noble, so the gardens were designed according to financial ability.

It was believed that people living here would not do anything like climbing over the wall into their neighbor's home.

Gu Beihuai had never had such concerns before, sitting in a wicker chair in the garden, spacing out.

Just then.

He heard a strange sound!

Swish!

Swish swish!

Gu Beihuai frowned, looking towards the source of the sound.

He saw a figure crawling on the ground of the garden next door!

She was really crawling! Like a little turtle!

Her hair was dyed but not yet toned, looking a bit strange, but very smooth.

Gu Beihuai watched as she crawled a distance, crawled to the junction between the two gardens.

Then she reached up and climbed the glass railing.

One and a half meters was perhaps a bit difficult for ordinary people, but for the agile Nan Xiangwan, even if she was drunk, it was just a matter of an extra second.

Just like that.

Nan Xiangwan climbed over the glass railing and came to the second floor garden of House 2201.

Then she continued crawling!

Her head was heavy and her feet were light, she simply could not stand up, struggling to crawl forward to the glass door.

Nan Xiangwan leaned against the wall to stand up, dizzy and confused, reaching out her hand.

Push!

She kept pushing, strange, why wouldn't this door open?

At that moment, Gu Beihuai walked over, "It doesn't open that way."

He slid the door to the side and opened it.

It was a sliding door!

Nan Xiangwan suddenly realized, then leaned against the wall and walked in.

After walking a distance, she started crawling on the ground again!

With her head feeling heavy and feet feeling light, crawling was still more suitable for her!

She kept crawling and crawling, crawling downstairs, crawling into the open kitchen on the first floor.

Gu Beihuai followed her all along, with a hint of strangeness in his expression and eyes.

He watched as Nan Xiangwan crawled into his house, crawled downstairs, crawled to the kitchen island.

Finally struggling to stand up, she almost fell over again.

She reached out to the kitchen island counter, grabbing the half-eaten sandwich that Gu Beihuai had left.

Then—

Thud!

She plopped down on the ground, stuffing the sandwich into her mouth!

Nan Xiangwan stuffed half of the sandwich into her mouth in one bite, with her cheeks bulging.

Chewing vigorously, her eyes were vacant!

Gu Beihuai: "..."

At this moment, even the usually calm King Gu Beihuai was convinced!

He thought for a moment, and did not startle Nan Xiangwan, but took out his phone.

And snapped a picture of this scene!

In the photo, Nan Xiangwan's eyes were vacant and sluggish, her cheeks bulging on both sides, looking like an irresistibly cute little squirrel!

Gu Beihuai held back the urge to laugh out loud, and bent down to look Nan Xiangwan in the eye.

Nan Xiangwan was really hungry after finishing half of the sandwich, she hadn't had her fill of the big lunch box that Little Dong had given her!

Gu Beihuai seemed to be the worm in her stomach, taking one look and realizing that this little lion cub was hungry.

So Gu Beihuai reached out and rubbed her head, "Wait a moment, I'll make you something to eat."

Her hair was very smooth, and the newly dyed color, she really was a cute little cub.

Too adorable!

Gu Beihuai turned on the stove, took out ingredients from the fridge, and started cooking.

Nan Xiangwan just sat on the floor next to him waiting, looking exactly like a little puppy waiting for its owner to feed it!

Half an hour later.

The rice cooker beeped, the rice was cooked.

Gu Beihuai let it continue steaming for another 5 minutes, while starting on the dishes.

Although he didn't usually cook, there were always some ingredients stocked in the house, for the occasional time he wanted to cook a meal.

They were all nutritious and healthy foods.

Gu Beihuai brought the food to the table, then turned around to see Nan Xiangwan crawling over again.

Crawling all the way from the kitchen, following him to the dining room!

Gu Beihuai's face was full of doting smiles as he reached out to help her onto the stool.

The cub couldn't even walk steadily right now, hoping she could get to the table herself was asking for her to spill a table full of dishes.

After Nan Xiangwan was seated firmly,

Gu Beihuai swiftly stuffed a bowl of rice into her left hand, and chopsticks in her right hand.

"Eat up."

Nan Xiangwan really was starving, immediately digging in heartily, eating with oil dripping down her mouth.

Due to her drunken state, her senses were somewhat diminished, and certain things amplified.

As a result, after she finished eating, there were chunks of food stuck to the corners of her mouth and chin.

Turning her into a little messy face!

Gu Beihuai took a new towel, soaked it in warm water, and wiped her face.

As he wiped, he chuckled softly, "Eating like this, you really are a cub."

This cub really was too interesting, getting drunk and crawling from home into the neighbor's.

A bloodhound's nose?

Able to accurately smell the leftover sandwich in the kitchen two households and a garden away!

After Gu Beihuai finished wiping Nan Xiangwan's face, he went to clean up the kitchen.

Although he was of esteemed status, he was not pretentious, and did not have any macho hangups about cooking and washing dishes, considering them perfectly normal activities in a domestic setting.

The sounds of washing dishes swished as Gu Beihuai's lips remained upturned in a smile the whole time.

Today really had been too amusing!

After washing the dishes, he returned to the living room.

Discovering that the little cub had taken out a sheet of paper and a pen from somewhere.

She was sitting on the floor next to the coffee table, with the pen dangling from her mouth, frowning in concentration about something.

On the paper was a messily scrawled long passage!

Gu Beihuai walked over and took a look.

Oh, she was reciting ancient poems and verses from memory.

These were also necessary materials to memorize for the college entrance exam, after all.

It was just that Nan Xiangwan was drunk at the moment, so the words she wrote were crooked and illegible.

Gu Beihuai struggled for quite a while before making out a few characters.

Just as he was straining to decipher it—

Slap!

Nan Xiangwan suddenly slapped the pen onto the table!

Gu Beihuai looked down at her, perplexed.

Now what?

He saw Nan Xiangwan hiccup again tipsily, then placed both hands on the coffee table, putting on the air of an old master!

She took a deep breath, and began to speak: "The Late Emperor barely made it halfway through his enterprise when his great task came to an abrupt end. Today, the world is divided into three parts..."

Starting with the opening lines of The Imperial Edict to the Troops, her manner was bold and stirring!

Gu Beihuai's pupils suddenly contracted in that instant, taken slightly aback.

Nan Xiangwan's voice continued: "The land of Shu is in dire straits, truly this is an autumn of life and death. However, the loyal servants of the imperial guards do not slacken on the inside, and loyal subjects forget themselves on the outside, all to repay the Late Emperor's exceptional favor, wishing to report it to Your Majesty..."

Suddenly she got stuck.

She couldn't remember the next part!

Seeing Nan Xiangwan start to get agitated, scratching her ears and tugging her cheeks trying to think.

Gu Beihuai gave a reminder: "To illuminate the Late Emperor's legacy."

Nan Xiangwan's eyes instantly lit up, and she continued reciting: "To illuminate the Late Emperor's legacy, inspire the spirit of loyal subjects, it would be improper to demean yourself in vain, leading to the loss of righteousness, blocking the way for loyal advice!"