The dizziness from his hangover had noticeably slowed his thoughts. After lying there idly for quite some time, a doubt suddenly surfaced in his mind.
The two women in his arms were clearly awake as well, so why had neither gotten up to make him a bowl of hangover soup or something?
The thought turned over in his mind several times before Sun Shaozong suddenly jolted awake in alarm. He hurriedly opened his eyes and looked to the side, only to find a lovely but unfamiliar face appearing before him in the darkness.
Sure enough...
Sun Shaozong's gaze drifted slightly upward. Though the woman's hair was in complete disarray, he could still vaguely make out that it had been styled in a married woman's fashion.
Tsk.
He had escaped disaster at Prince of Beijing's Estate, only for his 'innocent body' to end up ruined at the Crown Prince's Residence.
Perhaps his mind was not yet fully clear, but Sun Shaozong shamelessly labeled himself 'innocent' before trying to recall just how he had ended up spending the night at the Eastern Palace.
He remembered that when they had first begun drinking in the flower hall, although the Crown Prince kept urging him to drink, he had remained quite sober.
So how had he blacked out afterward?
Sun Shaozong racked his brains for a long while before a name suddenly surfaced: Prince Yizhong!
Ever since he had gone south to suppress the rebellion two years ago, Sun Shaozong had not heard anyone mention that name for a long time.
After all, even while Prince Yizhong had been alive, he had already become a taboo subject at court. Then he had died under muddled circumstances. Though many surely had their own suspicions, few dared discuss it openly.
Yet after the Crown Prince had