"Mm, go ahead and try it." Aria gave her a cute smile.
"Oh, is that so?"
Guan Xing set down the food in her hand and bit one of her pale fingers as though thinking. A few seconds later, she smiled. "Then give me some!"
"Okay." Aria froze for a moment, a flash of wild joy appearing on her face before vanishing at once.
"This wine is really good! It must be worth a lot, right?" Tatsumi drained his glass and could not help exclaiming.
"Of course! These are premium purple grapes harvested from the Southern Islands. The annual yield is extremely small, and you can only drink it in the Imperial Palace. Father had to go to great lengths to get this bottle." Hearing Tatsumi's praise, Aria immediately smiled with pride as she explained.
However, when Aria turned her head, the smile vanished from her face. The wine before Miss Guanxing did not seem to have gone down at all.
"Why aren't you drinking? Is it not good? You might not be able to find such delicious wine anywhere else."
"I did drink it, but it doesn't taste good."
Guan Xing answered as if it were only natural. This wine did not taste like much at all! As the Sage King who ruled the Brilliant Empire, she had tasted every kind of fine wine imaginable. Only Tatsumi, who had come from the countryside, found it incomparably delicious.
"Is that so? Then you won't get to drink it again in the future."
Aria's originally adorable smile darkened. She was merely some little noble from the countryside, yet she did not know how to appreciate kindness!
"Ugh, I'm so sleepy..."
Just as Aria finished speaking, Tatsumi suddenly felt the world spinning. An intense wave of drowsiness swept over him. His body