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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.