"...After a fierce battle, we moved heaven and earth before finally bringing this batch of wine back. This is the good stuff. Miss your chance today, and you might never get another!"
Yuwen Chengdu grinned. "Well? Want to come to my manor and drink your fill?"
"I'm just worried you won't have enough wine."
Chen Beidou laughed. "There are quite a few of us."
"Don't worry. There's plenty to go around."
Yuwen Chengdu patted his chest, then shouted for his men to clear the way. He walked alongside Chen Beidou, only then seeming to notice the sedan chair on Chen Beidou's shoulder. He glanced sideways.
"Chen Beidou, you've really come down in the world! You're actually working as a sedan bearer now!"
"What the hell do you know?"
Chen Beidou snapped back.
"Most people wouldn't have the privilege of carrying His Excellency's sedan even if they wanted to!"
"His Excellency?!"
Yuwen Chengdu looked bewildered and astonished.
"An arrogant, conceited fellow like you? You've always thought so highly of yourself that you don't even respect me, yet you're calling someone else His Excellency?! Who is it? Our Great Tang emperor?"
He turned, instinctively looking at the man in the sedan chair, and froze!
Wait...
How could anyone in this world be so handsome, imposing, and radiant?
And how had I, Yuwen Chengdu, failed to notice him before?!
This...
What the hell?
Could my eyes be playing tricks on me?!
Yuwen Chengdu blinked and looked again. The man in the sedan chair seemed even more majestic!
He drew a breath, rubbed his eyes, and looked again. Huh?! Even more imposing and magnificent!
*...!!*
What was going on?!
Yuwen Chengdu was dazed. Only after checking several times did he have to acknowledge the truth.
The man sitting in the sedan chair wasn't a