CHAPTER 282: CHAPTER 282: I LOVE YOU (56)

"Will you fall in love with another man in the future?"

Her movement to pick up vegetables paused. "Who knows, maybe I will, maybe I won’t, it’s hard to say. But then again, I’m not the type who is scared of a rope for ten years after being bitten by a snake once. A single marital failure doesn’t prove anything. Deep down, I still hope for a warm family life, with love, affection, and children. I still have expectations. However, next time I meet the Ninth Prince, I must ask him clearly..."

"Ask what?"

"What exactly he means by wanting me to become his person." She smiled at him, "I need to get this clarified, right?"

"It should be clarified."

"But..." Gu Lili was puzzled, "He doesn’t speak; I can’t tell if he’s lost his ability to speak or simply disdains to pay me any attention."

"You should ask him that as well."

Gu Lili wanted to know the answers to these two questions right now. "If I don’t take the initiative to see him, I have no idea when he might come to see me. Maybe after dinner, I should just go to the underworld and find him."

"Then you must be careful not to bump into some important figure."

"I’m not going for the first time. I will be extra careful, come on, cheers."

Gu Lili couldn’t stop drinking once she started. She ended up drinking a whole bottle of high-proof alcohol, threw up twice in the restroom without mentioning, and then had a bout of drunken madness.

Crying, making a scene, singing, and dancing.

Su Changzhi nearly couldn’t handle her and had to support her back to the room, pressing her onto the bed, "You’re drunk, just get some sleep."

"I don’t want to sleep." Her body, trying to sit up, was laid back down again.

"Then just lie there."

Gu Lili lay there, murmuring, "I almost forgot, I said I was going to find the Ninth Prince, I’ll go find him."

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, she fell into a deep slumber.

Su Changzhi wryly smiled, truly at a loss with her.

...

As soon as Gu Lili arrived in the underworld, she saw Xiao Hei, who was with the Ninth Prince.

Seeing her, Xiao Hei teleported in front of her, "How come you, a human, are back in the underworld again?"

"I want to see the Ninth Prince, please take me to him."

"Follow me."

Gu Lili’s body was swaying, as she drunkenly followed his figure.

Then once more, she arrived at the residence of the Ninth Prince.

Catching sight of the sea of bamboo, she stood there in a drunken state and said to Xiao Hei, "My home also has a lot of bamboo..."

Xiao Hei glanced her up and down, "Weren’t you here to see the Ninth Prince? Don’t just stand there, His Highness is currently available."

"Oh, then let’s go..." Gu Lili followed him through the gate, following Xiao Hei deeper inside.

Seeing so many large pillars in front of her, Gu Lili shook her head, squinting, and pointed at the pillars before her, "It’s like a labyrinth..."

Xiao Hei grabbed her and quickly navigated through the twists and turns between the pillars, finally arriving in front of a curtain.

That’s how Gu Lili was dragged in, and upon entering, she saw the figure sitting at the edge of the bed.

"Ninth Prince, Miss Gu has arrived."

The Ninth Prince raised his hand, signaling for Xiao Hei to leave, and Xiao Hei nodded his head before exiting.

He then beckoned Gu Lili over.

Alcohol bolstering her audacity, Gu Lili foolishly quickened her steps and before she knew it, stumbled right into him. He stretched out his hands to catch her and hold her.

With a twirl, Gu Lili found herself lying on the bed.

She opened her eyes, looking at him dazedly, and he didn’t ask anything, just lay down beside her, propping his head on his arm, lazily watching her.