124 Intolerable

Su Li felt irked by Ning Fu's words.

"Do you know why I drink? It's because the alcohol helps me to forget the pain in my heart and numbs me to all those pesky emotions that tend to play havoc on me."

"Be that as it may, drinking isn't the solution, Your Majesty."

"Hmm. I know but it helps me escape from myself and my thoughts, doesn't it and right now, I will take anything that helps me."

"But running away from your problems won't help you, Your Majesty. The problems will still catch up to you."

Suddenly, Su Li felt angered by this person who seemed to be judging her without even knowing her situation so she turned her face away from him and snapped.

"What has that got to do with you? Why are you poking your nose into my business? It's not like I came up to you for help."

Ning Fu turned speechless at those words and realised that they were the truth.

Why should it matter to him what this person did in his own free time as long as hi actions didn't affect the day to day running of the Devil snare army and his family was safe?

An uncomfortable silence descended upon them and when Su Li made to get off the bench, her legs buckled underneath her and she flopped back on to the bench.

A few seconds later, she turned towards the other person and cajoled.

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When the only response to her words was a sarcastic sneer and a snort, she nervously fidgeted in her seat.

"If you help me, no - no, not me. If you help Zhen, Zhen will award you with gold and riches. You believe me, right? I promise I won't renege on my words. I – Zhen will definitely reward a handsome man like you handsomely."

Finished with her words, Su Li giggled because she thought that she had made a very clever play on words.

Meanwhile, Ning Fu nearly burst out in angry and amused laughter at the monarch's attempt to bribe him.

Still, he knew he couldn't say no and finally agreed wordlessly.

Slowly, he pulled the other person up and made their way through the meandering pathways of the Imperial Palace.

Ning Fu felt that the clear pathways felt like a maze at night while he was trying to avoid the patrolling guards and have the mumbling, chatty drunk by his side lower his volume.

Oh, how the enemy state generals will laugh if they ever found out that the God of war was playing nanny to a drunken monarch in the middle of the night.

At one point, the monarch started singing in an off-key voice and a Shadow Guard noticed the disturbance.

Ning Fu shushed the person by his side and fiercely whispered, "If you want me to help you to your chambers, then you have to tone down your volume or better yet keep quiet, Your Majesty."

"Why? Are you going to leave me if I don't stop speaking? Am I that intolerable to you?"

With an exasperated sigh, Ning Fu answered.

"It's not that you are intolerable to me but your guard dogs will surely find me intolerable if they find you with me in an inebriated state when I am not supposed to be inside the Imperial Complex, Your Majesty."

Su Li looked at the person by her side and all of a sudden seriously expressed.

"Don't worry. Zhen won't allow anyone to harm the people by Zhen's side. Zhen had already failed once, Zhen won't let it happen a second time."

He didn't want the monarch to think about the past so he simply said, "Your Majesty, please be quiet."

Su Li felt disgruntled at being told to stop talking every few steps.

"You be quiet. Nobody should ask Zhen to stop talking because Zhen is the master of all under the heavens."

Soon enough they had made their way from the Koi fish pond to just outside of the Imperial bedchambers.

They were almost there when they came across the Head Commander of The Shadow Guards who had been jumping from roof to roof in search of the monarch.

When the Head Commander noticed the emperor was drunk and with Ning Fu, as usual, he came to his hasty conclusions.

The Head Commander cursed Ning Fu as an irresponsible and negligent subject who instead of stopping the monarch from drinking was leading him down the wrong path.

While Ning Fu was panicking as to how to reasonably explain his presence, Su Li burst into drunken laughter.

The Head Commander worriedly looked over the monarch, "Your Majesty?"

Su Li moved forward to pat him on the shoulder because of his hard work of always worrying about her at night but she missed and would have fallen face-first on the ground if not for Ning Fu holding her up at the last moment.

Still, she shrugged his hand away, turned towards the Head Commander.

"Thank you. I know I put you in a difficult spot every time I ask you to not follow me around but you never say a word of complaint. Thank you. Zhen will also offer you gold and riches."

The Head Commander was overwhelmed with gratitude at the monarch's recognition of his hard work and he solemnly replied, "This lowly servant doesn't wish for any reward, Your Majesty. As long as you are well, this lowly one will consider that as his reward since it's my duty to protect Your Majesty."

Meanwhile, Ning Fu wondered if the emperor offered the same 'gold and riches' to everyone he came across when he was a happy drunk and couldn't help but find it funny.