Hope Brought by the Magic Array

Lin Qi, dead drunk and unconscious, suddenly jolted awake in his sleep. Someone had poured a stream of icy liquid into his mouth. Wherever that cold current, carrying a faint scent of bayberries, passed, the intoxication was utterly washed away. With a single shiver, Lin Qi was completely sober.

He opened his eyes in surprise and saw Zhao Lu placing a golden bowl with a little hangover soup left inside onto the small table beside the bed. Lin Qi froze for a moment, then slapped his forehead and gave a bitter laugh. "Thank you for your trouble, Eunuch Zhao. At the banquet just now, I really was forced to drink too much."

Zhao Lu nodded with a smile that did not reach his eyes. In a sinister voice, he said, "Is Eastern Harmony King awake? His Majesty wishes to see you."

Just as Lin Qi was about to speak, a deep roar suddenly came from the room next door. "Damn it, am I seeing ghosts in the middle of the night? What the hell is crawling all over me? Damn it, you ball-less thing, what are you doing sneaking onto my bed in the middle of the night?"

Along with the roar came the sound of a door collapsing, followed by the cries of someone being sent flying and crashing onto the ground.

Lin Qi opened his mouth. Zhao Lu's aged face turned incomparably strange. Pointing at the golden bowl on the small table, he said with a laugh caught between tears and amusement, "His Majesty has summoned both Eastern Peace King and Eastern Harmony King. This servant came to give Eastern Harmony King hangover soup, while over there, this servant's newly adopted godson was attending to Eastern Peace King. This has become quite the mess..."

Lin Qi hurriedly sprang