Chapter 14 (Consort Overturning the World)

After a few seconds, Yanxuan lay down on the table. Suddenly, she sat up straight, only that she wasn't sober this time. Her body swayed up and down, like she was going to lie down any time.

Li You propped himself on his elbow, watching her flushed appearance. He didn't support her body, instead allowing her to continue her 'Roly-poly Toy' performance.*

*It sounds really really really weird but basically the Author is comparing her drunk swaying body to a Roly-poly toy...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roly-poly_toy] Y'know the type that keeps tilting up and down

"Li You..." The intoxicated Yanxuan called out to him.

"Yes?" Li You poured another cup of wine and prepared to watch the good show.

"Has anyone ever said, that, you're very, annoying?" This goes to show that drunk people tend to be more brave.

"Nobody has ever told me that before, but an idiot has now."

Yanxuan pouted, not realising that she had been ridiculed as an idiot. Lifting a swaying, unsteady hand up to point at Li You, "Just because you don't have a mother you think you're very special, the people that don't have any parents in this world are many... You always bully people that way..."

Li You remained taciturn without a hint of anger, silently waiting for her to go on.

"I also have no mother...honestly, even my biological father doesn't even know who she is. My dad is called Yantian Xu, I don't even know my surname. It was my dad that gave me a surname; he told me that I was his daughter..." Yanxuan's eyes were half opened, and she begin choking with emotions halfway through her speech, "Having no mother is really nothing at all, we still live an equally happy life. Li You, everyone says you're very frivolous, idle about every day, haha, I think they're very stupid, you're this cunning and treacherous, how can you be that type of idle and lazy person..."

"Then, what type of person does young miss think Li You is?" Li You's expression was like a smile yet not a smile*, playing with a cup of wine in his hand.

*I checked the dictionary for this one, and it literally translated to that. Don't look at me cause I have no idea how a smile looks like a smile but is not a smile

Yanxuan didn't reply him, her drunk mind jumping to another question altogether, "The imperial palace's dog eat dog world, filled with schemes and traps, you've hated it long ago. You told me before, having a habit is good, but I don't want a habit of scheming against my own family members, isn't it tiring? Why do people like to tire themselves to death?"

"You lived in the imperial palace for so many years without your mother, how did you survive? Why do you look so frivolous and carefree in the eyes of others, yet some people will still rack their brains for schemes to eliminate you... I don't understand, I really don't understand."

"How many girls wouldn't mind giving a limb to marry into the imperial palace? I feel that they're really stupid, what good is there in the palace; every time you eat you need to check if there's poison. You guys all call me stupid, yet I see everything the most clearly, because the spectator sees the more of the game*. I've always been the spectator, I've seen many officials thinking themselves smart, yet being unable to extricate themselves from the deadly whirlpool called the imperial palace, even in their death... haha, what a joke, that kind of imperial palace, who would cherish."

Li You lowered his eyes, quietly musing, the cup of wine in his hand producing slight noises.

"Li You, living in the imperial palace, it's hard to predict your future, I pity you." Yanxuan downed the second cup of wine, drinking it in a gulp.

"Hehe, I'll sing a song for you, oh, what song should I sing?" Yanxuan was obviously drunk, unconsciously displaying the seductive appearance of a bashful young lady, possessing a pure and just temperament that could not be found in any other woman, like a fairy that descended into the mortal world from the 9 heavens.

"Ah, I know what to sing..." Yanxuan chuckled. Her face was without any cosmetics or makeup, yet it would make people unable to break their gaze from it. Her beautiful singing voice begin to echo in the room.

[有道是人不风流枉少年 风流少年时 笑看浮生变 神仙府里赛神仙 谈笑江湖间 醉卧美人膝 醒掌天下权 乱世风云出我辈 金戈峥嵘归 玉盏琉璃杯 绫罗飞天绘 酒不醉人人自醉 暖帐芙蓉被 拨花弄柳月 行走无常间 左拥右抱岂是罪 惹尽芳心也累累累]*

[琴瑟回 轻鸿飞 秋水星眸 幽幽舞衣掩娇媚 桃花儿魅 清风醉 古壁凝尘 芳菲绵绵相思泪]

[暗流风乍起 修罗意阑珊 红袖别苑藏玄机 誓忠轩辕王 犹冀凌云志 冥冥眷红尘 庙堂之高伤神事 云龙御平尘 别离伤幽肠 长乐少年狂 傲雪霜冷尤清艳 焚梅念故人 风流徒枉然 世事话无常 痴心未曾两相忆 潇洒为红颜狂狂狂 风憔悴 心难慰 十载春秋 唯守庵外度春晖 无尘泪 雨愁倍 万丈红尘 如殇笑眼看定王。]

*This is a poem. I couldn't make head or tail of it, so I had to get outside help from NU. All credits for the poem part goes to the helpful translators on NU as well as the thoughtful community on NU.

This chapter was translation hell for me, I'm out~

P.S. Butler Wang must be wondering where the hell Yanxuan ran off to