Chapter 173 The纨绔世子 12 (2/2)

"Young Master, spare me! I... I..."

Wang, the registrar, was on the verge of tears.

"Your Highness, please calm down. Clerk Wang was misled by the slander of a petty person. It was all a misunderstanding... Clerk Wang, don't you agree?"

Zi Xi spoke at the opportune moment, her voice gentle and calm, breaking the suffocating sense of oppression. She smiled as she looked at the limp Wang Zhubu on the ground.

"Yes, yes, yes! What Master Liu says is absolutely right! It's all that scholar's fault! The accounts of Bazhenlou are clear! They are compliant, absolutely compliant, and there is no overstepping of the bounds! I have finished investigating! I have finished investigating!"

As if grasping at a lifeline, Wang, the registrar, nodded hurriedly like a chicken pecking at rice, while inwardly resenting that scoundrel, Pei Xiucai, wasn't he!

I'll remember you!

"Get out of here! Don't get in my way! If you do it again..."

Helian Jue snorted coldly, then lazily waved his hand.

"I wouldn't dare! There will never be a next time!"

Wang, the registrar, felt as if he had been granted a pardon. He scrambled to his feet and called to his equally terrified follower. Even Zi Xi had already packed the food and placed it aside, not bothering to take the fragrant spicy crab and drunken wine.

The three of them fled the private room in a panic and a sorry state, their legs so weak that they almost tumbled down the stairs as they went downstairs.

Helian Jue watched their hasty retreat and curled his lip in disdain.

"How about that? I arrived just in time, didn't I? This is how you teach those snobbish bastards to be taught a lesson!"

He turned to look at Zi Xi, and the intimidating aura he had just exuded vanished instantly, replaced by a nonchalant smile, even carrying a hint of self-satisfaction.

"Thank you for coming to my rescue, Your Highness, but your commotion was a bit too much."

Zi Xi looked at his eager-for-praise expression, a barely perceptible smile flashing in her eyes, but she pointed seriously to the broken door latch.

I never expected that this guy, who looked so cool last time, would turn into such a spoiled brat this time.

"It's no big deal. I'll have someone fix it for you and replace it with a sturdier one!"

"It smells so good! Is this what you just made... what's it called? Let me have a taste!"

Helian Jue shrugged nonchalantly, sat down casually at the table, and stared intently at the packaged spicy crab.

Seeing that Zi Xi did not make a move, he reached out and opened the food box himself.

Zi Xi watched helplessly as this纨绔世子 (a spoiled young master) opened the food box and reached for the crab without any politeness, and then personally poured him a cup of Drunken Immortal Wine.

"Eat slowly, no one's going to take it from you."

She offered him a silk handkerchief, but Helian Jue wiped his fingers and grabbed his wrist.

"Master Liu, tell me... I have saved you from dire straits time and time again, shouldn't you repay me with your body?"

Helian Jue suddenly leaned closer, his peach blossom eyes filled with mockery.

“Your Highness is too kind. I am but a humble merchant, how could I be worthy of someone as noble as you?”

"Besides... it wasn't just the young master who saved me, so does that mean I have to repay them all with my body?"

Zi Xi frowned and withdrew her hand.

"Alas, how can I, this young master, compare myself to other men?"

"Running this restaurant is hard work, why not come with me and become the Crown Prince's wife? You'll live a life of luxury, wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Helian Jue gnawed on a crab leg, smiling smugly despite being rejected, fiercely suppressing his displeasure.

He's been watching her for so long, who else has saved her right under his nose?

The private room immediately fell silent.

Xiao Liuzi was about to come in carrying new dishes when he heard this and almost dropped the plate.

“Your Highness, I know you are charming and dashing, but our family backgrounds are too different, so it is not suitable.”

Zi Xi put down the wine pot and looked directly into Helian Jue's eyes.