This sudden closeness between them made him wonder if he was just imagining things or if he fell asleep while waiting for Tang Moyu's return.

  However, the warmth of her breath that touched his neck after Tang Moyu's head fell over his shoulder made him realize that it was really happening and not just a dream he conjured himself.

  "Miss Tang…" Feng Tianyi tried to push away the drunk woman, who was now splayed on his lap but to no avail. Tang Moyu refused to move an inch away from him, she had instead wrapped her arms around his neck.

  His face contorted with confusion as he tried hard to ignore how her chest was pressed against his. He was still a hot-blooded male, who would still react when there was a beautiful woman pressed against him. He might be crippled but he still had sensations down there!

  "I hate them! I really hate them! If only I could punch Feng Tianhua's face so I wouldn't need to see his annoying face!" Tang Moyu complained as if she was a little girl complaining to her parents about getting bullied at school.

  Feng Tianyi frowned when he heard Tang Moyu say his half-brother's name. So Tianhua was the reason she was acting like this? What did his stupid brother do to her this time?

  Since Tang Moyu and Li Meili attended the Women's banquet, there's no doubt that she also met Xing Yiyue at the event, but for Feng Tianhua to actually show up with his woman in front of Tang Moyu, wasn't he bullying the empress by showing up?

  Feng Tianyi felt a headache coming his way as Tang Moyu continued to stay on his lap, refusing to budge from her position. Didn't she realize how dangerous it would be for her to stay in a man's arms like this? Wasn't she afraid that he would take advantage of her drunken state?

  Suddenly, Tang Moyu looked up and cupped both sides of his face with her hands, pulling his head closer to hers.

  "Hmm, Xiao Bao, since when did you become an adult? Which fairy godmother made your wish come true, huh?" She asked Feng Tianyi.

  In her drunken state, Tang Moyu had mistakenly thought that she was talking to her son's adult form instead of the handsome crippled man living in her guesthouse. Feng Tianyi could see her eyes up close, noticing how hard it was for her to recognize him as the alcohol had affected her senses.

  "Hmm, my baby is so serious, but you're still handsome when you're mad." Tang Moyu laughed and hit Feng Tianyi's shoulder with one hand.

  Feng Tianyi raised a brow. Did she just call him 'baby'?

  "Miss Tang, you should behave yourself, or else your children would get worried once they wake up." He tried to push some sense back to her, but Tang Moyu insisted that he was her grown up 'Handsome Xiao Bao'.

  "Oh, my darling. My prince looks so handsome and grown-up!" She giggled, a sound that Feng Tianyi would never thought the cold empress was capable of producing. Tang Moyu was always serious, her face devoid of any emotions, except when she was conversing with her children.

  "Miss Tang, you are mistaken. I'm not your prince."

  Tang Moyu gasped at that. "You aren't? How come?"

  "I'm not…" Feng Tianyi wanted to say that he'd never had a prince charming image and had always been known as the devil. He would always be the villain in someone's story.

  "S'kay, baby. I love you the way you are!" She insisted and patted his cheek.

  For him, seeing her like this, Feng Tianyi wondered if Tang Moyu had never shown this side of her because she was taught to reign her emotions since childhood. A teaching that he could sympathize with, since they experienced more or less the same upbringing.

  Didn't his hypocrite father, who raised him with an iron fist, forced him to reign his feelings too? The man did that and then went on to abandon him and his mother for the love he claimed to have found in Feng Tianhua's mother?

  "Baby, Mommy can still kiss you, right? Even if you're already grown up, my Xiao Bao would forever be my baby like Little Star!" Tang Moyu said before pulling Feng Tianyi's face again and placed a sloppy kiss on both of his cheeks, much to his shock.

  The empress actually dared to kiss him? He didn't know how to react to that.

  Feng Tianyi looked at the empress like she'd grown another head over her shoulder. This…… Once Tang Moyu was sober enough and remembered what she'd done tonight, would she regret it?

  A resounding 'yes' echoed within Feng Tianyi's mind. There's no doubt that she would regret and be ashamed of what she'd done. She would be lucky if she had totally forgotten about all of this and Feng Tianyi would have no choice but to keep it a secret for her sake.

  "Come on, Miss Tang. You need to sober up and go to bed." He told her as he forced himself to wheel them out of the kitchen. Poor Auntie Lu, she would need to clean up the mess of the spilled bourbon on the floor once the sun was up.

  Because of the extra weight added to him, courtesy of Tang Moyu's alluring body pressed against his, Feng Tianyi exerted more effort to move around the house. The woman started to cry in his arms, murmuring words and cursing his half-brother and Xing Yiyue.