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Chapter 249: Palace Nocturne: Li Tian's confusion, Lin Wanqiu's excitement and the danger

The palace at night was quiet yet tense.

Li Tian pulled Ziwei to the corner of the imperial garden. The fragrance of the surrounding flowers filled the night, but it could not dispel the fear and uneasiness in Ziwei's heart.

Li Tian stroked Ziwei's hair gently, with a dazed look in his eyes, "Ziwei, do you know? In this cold palace, you are like a beam of warm light."

Ziwei lowered her head, her body trembling slightly, "Sir, please let me go. If His Majesty knew, I would be dead."

Li Tian hugged her tighter, "Don't be afraid, I'm here. As long as you follow me, I will protect you."

Ziwei's eyes were filled with tears, "My lord, you shouldn't be like this. His Majesty is good to you, but you are here with me... This is a great sin."

Li Tian smiled bitterly, "Humph, her kindness to me is nothing but a bondage. Only you can make me feel a moment of peace."

As he said this, he gently lifted Ziwei's face and tried to kiss her again.

Ziwei turned her head away, tears streaming down her cheeks, "Sir, I cannot betray His Majesty."

Li Tian's hands froze in mid-air, and he felt angry. "You are drinking a forfeit if you don't accept my toast."

But seeing Ziwei's pitiful appearance, he softened again, "Forget it, I won't force you. It's just that life in this palace is too boring."

Ziwei said cautiously: "Sir, if you are really upset, you can think of a way to help His Majesty resist the foreign enemies instead of here..."

Li Tian frowned, "Help her? Then I will have even less freedom."

Ziwei mustered up her courage and said, "Sir, His Majesty truly loves you. If you can protect the country with His Majesty, His Majesty will definitely give you freedom."

Li Tian fell into deep thought. He looked at the bright moon in the sky and a ripple appeared in his heart.

Do I really have to stand with Liu Ruyan? But if I do that, where is my freedom?

Just then, the footsteps of patrolling guards were heard in the distance.

Ziwei panicked, "Sir, we can't be discovered, please leave quickly."

Li Tian came back to his senses, he let go of Ziwei, and looked at her hurried back, feeling mixed emotions.

He stood alone in the garden for a long time, until the patrolling guards left, then he slowly walked towards his residence.

After Li Tian returned to his residence, he threw himself on the bed and stared at the curtains above the bed in a daze.

He felt both resistance and hesitation towards Ziwei's words, but when he thought about helping Liu Ruyan for her freedom, he felt unwilling.

"Huh, how can freedom be gained in this way?"

Li Tian muttered to himself and decided not to think about these troubles anymore.

He began to act like a scum in the palace, and apart from eating and sleeping, he just wandered around his residence every day.

He threw aside the military intelligence that Liu Ruyan sent him without even looking at it.

When everyone in the palace saw him like this, they all shook their heads secretly.

Lin Wanqiu was even more angry, "Your Majesty values ​​him so much, but he is so ungrateful, he is simply a waste."

When Liu Ruyan heard about Li Tian's condition, her heart ached, but she had no time to care about it at the moment and could only focus all her energy on resisting the foreign enemies.

Li Tian's behavior in the palace became more and more absurd.

He deliberately made provocative moves in front of the guards, causing them to glare at him.

Sometimes he would make trouble when the palace maids were busy, making them overwhelmed.

Once, the imperial kitchen prepared dry food for the soldiers on the front line.

Li Tian sneered, "What's the point of preparing all this? The enemy is so strong, no matter how much you do, it will be in vain."

His words made the eunuchs in the imperial kitchen angry but not able to speak out.

When the news came that another group of enemy troops was attacking, the palace was busy and everyone was preparing for defense.

Li Tian, ​​however, was sitting in the pavilion in the garden, drinking wine and looking at the panicked crowd with a half-smile on his face.

"Sir, why don't you go and help?" a young eunuch couldn't help but ask.

Li Tian glanced at him sideways, "Why should I go? What does this have to do with me?"

As he spoke, he took another sip of wine, which spilled on his clothes, making him look disheveled and decadent.

However, when the enemy's shouts and screams were heard faintly, Li Tian couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

He looked at the flames rising into the sky in the distance, and Liu Ruyan's face flashed through his mind.

But he quickly suppressed this emotion and continued to sit in the pavilion, as if he was determined to continue this kind of mess.

Li Tian drank glass after glass, becoming increasingly drunk.

He stood up shakily, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and chanted: "When life is happy, you should enjoy it to the fullest, and don't let the golden cup face the moon in vain. I was born with talents that will be useful, and I will get them back even if I spend all my money..."

Li Tian's voice echoed in the night sky, with a sense of freedom and loneliness.

At this moment, Lin Wanqiu passed by the garden and stopped involuntarily when she heard these heroic verses.

She had never thought that Li Tian, ​​whom she had always hated, could recite such magnificent verses.

Lin Wanqiu stood quietly in the dark, looking at Li Tian's somewhat embarrassed yet unruly figure, and a strange feeling surged in her heart.

Li Tian continued to chant: "Cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle is fun, and I must drink three hundred cups at the party..."

His eyes were blurred, as if at this moment, all his worries were forgotten.

Lin Wanqiu looked at him, and her impression of him began to change.

In the past, she only thought that Li Tian was a selfish and ungrateful person.

But now, Lin Wanqiu felt Li Tian’s talent and unwillingness deep in his heart from these poems.

"Sir..." Lin Wanqiu couldn't help but call softly.

Li Tian looked at her with drunken eyes, "Huh, it's you, are you here to laugh at a loser like me?"

Lin Wanqiu stepped forward and said, "My Lord, you misunderstood. Your poems... gave me a new understanding of you."

Li Tian laughed. "New acquaintance? Don't you all think I'm a troublemaker?"

Lin Wanqiu lowered her head slightly. "I was shallow before. You must have many ambitions in your heart, but you are trapped by this complicated situation."

Li Tian was stunned. He didn't expect Lin Wanqiu to say such a thing.

He sat back on the stone bench in the pavilion, picked up the wine pot and took another sip. "Ambition? I'm just a prisoner, how can I have any ambition?"

Lin Wanqiu sat down opposite him and said, "Sir, you are so talented, you shouldn't be so depressed. Now that we are facing foreign enemies, His Majesty needs you, and we all need you."

A complex emotion flashed in Li Tian's eyes, "You need me? But who can give me the freedom I want?"

Lin Wanqiu looked at him with a little more tenderness in her eyes, "Sir, freedom is not out of reach. As long as we repel the enemy, you can pursue your freedom, and His Majesty will fulfill your wish."

Li Tian was silent. He looked at the fire in the distance and fell into deep thought.

Lin Wanqiu didn't say anything else, just stayed by his side quietly.

At this moment, she found herself feeling a little sorry for this man, and she also developed an inexplicable admiration for him.

Since then, Lin Wanqiu's attitude towards Li Tian has changed.

She was no longer sarcastic towards him as before, but instead always cared about his life.

Li Tian noticed Lin Wanqiu's changes, but at this time he was still entangled in his relationship with Liu Ruyan and his desire for freedom, and did not pay too much attention to Lin Wanqiu's emotional changes.

However, Lin Wanqiu's concern was like a stone, causing ripples in his originally calm heart.