I thought I heard knocks on the door! What time could it be? I felt an arm around my waist and a body pressing down on me! I turned my head and saw Jingyi's face next to mine on the pillow!

The events of the previous evening came back to me! I lifted the sheet... I hadn't dreamed! We were both naked and from the pain I felt in my lower back, I must not have won our stupid bet!

My head felt like cotton, and blows were still echoing in rhythm with my temples.

"Jin Ling!!! aren't you up yet?"

"Uncle Jiang Cheng?"

I got up abruptly in the bed, waking up the one who was sleeping peacefully on top of me until now. I turned to Jingyi and shook him to make him get up.

"Jingyi, get up, it's my uncle!

Still half asleep he muttered...

"Your uncle knows that we are dating, it's okay ... "

He still didn't move. I slapped him on the back of the head, which woke him up completely.

"Not that uncle, the other one!"

"The other one?"

"Jiang Cheng."

"Ahhh"

"Get up and get dressed, he mustn't find you here!" I pushed him out of the bed.

"Jin Ling, I'm going in".

"Uh Uncle Jiang Cheng, I'm not dressed!"

"I raised you partly, I saw you naked when you were a baby"

"I'm not a baby anymore, Uncle Jiang!!!"

I pressed Jingyi, he put on his underwear and walked to the window with the rest of his clothes in his arms. He glanced outside ... and turned back to me!

"I can't go through there, there are guards!"

I was starting to panic , knowing Uncle Jiang , he was going to enter any second !

"The wardrobe, hurry, hurry!"

He looked at me , overwhelmed and disillusioned , but nevertheless walked towards the cabinet in question .

"It's not the kind of wake-up call I was expecting last night!"

"We'll talk about that later! Faster!"

"What a sore loser you are!"

"Bad loser? You cheated I'm sure! In the cupboard."

I had just closed it when Uncle Jiang Cheng came in! He looked at me. He closed the door and stared at me again. I had never been a good actor! He must have seen that I was uncomfortable.

"Jin Ling, when you told me you weren't dressed, I thought you were in your underwear!"

"Hmm???" I suddenly realized that I was naked as a worm!!!

"Hey, you said you saw me naked when I was a baby .... I was changing.

I turned around and opened the closet to try to grab something to put on my back! I groped around, but with the door half closed it was hard to find anything! Fortunately, inside, Jingyi handed me what I was looking for. I took out my arm and put on the clothes I had collected. Uncle Jiang frowned and looked suspicious.

He looked at the table and the empty jars of alcohol on it!

"Looks like you've... had a good night!"

"Let's say that! Did you want something, Uncle?"

"You seem to be in a hurry to divert the conversation, so let me guess, your Uncle Wei didn't make you drink anyway?"

If I could deflect suspicion onto Uncle Wei... I'm sure he would forgive me. I looked guilty.

Uncle Jiang pursed his lips and looked furious.

I'll have to find him before he does, to explain!

Jingyi sneezed into the cupboard! I closed my eyes and prayed that Uncle Jiang hadn't heard anything!

"What was that?" he looked around.

"What?" I replied with an innocent look.

"Don't play dumb with me! There's someone in that closet!"

I threw myself in front of the door. He had a quick glance in the direction of the bed ... a smile appeared on his lips!

"Did you think I wouldn't understand? I was your age once, you know!"

"What are you talking about uncle Jiang?"

"Come on, get her out, I promise I won't tell anyone, her honor will be safe!"

"Uncle Jiang, it's not what you think!"

He pushed me and opened the door. My robes were hanging after the hooks. Jingyi must have stood behind. I saw the tips of her bare feet sticking out from under one of them. Uncle Jiang too...

"Come on, get out of there!"

Seeing that the hidden person did not comply, Uncle Jiang insisted.

"Get out of that closet right now or I'll take care of it!"

The robes were pushed aside and Jingyi walked out looking sheepish. He was still holding his clothes and boots in his arms. It was obvious that he would have preferred to be somewhere else!

Uncle Jiang looked at him sternly and sighed with exasperation. He slowly turned his head towards me!

"What is Lan Jingyi doing here?"

My eyes fell on the plate of cake he had brought the day before.

"He came to bring me cakes from Uncle Lan!"

"In your underwear? Are you both laughing at me .... ? "

"Jiang Gongzi, when we...had tea while eating the cakes I spilled my cup on my dress!"

"Yes, yes, that's right Uncle Jiang, he spilled his cup and I offered to have it washed ... that's why he is in his underwear!"

"In the cupboard?" I looked at Jingyi, he looked as untalented as I was at making up stories!

"Jin Gongzi offered to lend me one of his dresses in the meantime..."

"Yes, yes that's right and he was picking it out when you knocked .... I was surprised and when I turned around I accidentally pushed it into the wardrobe and the door closed!"

Never, Uncle Jiang was going to believe what I had just told him !!!!

He looked back at the table with the wine jars. I saw a slight smile on his lips. What was he thinking? I looked at Jingyi, he was as worried as I was.

Uncle Jiang crossed his arms over his chest.

"Alright, I understand about Lan Jingyi but why weren't you wearing any clothes?"

"Hmmm ...."

"The teapot!" exclaimed Jingyi

"When I spilled my cup, I grabbed Jin Ling's arm and he spilled the teapot on his dress, as it was boiling, he took it off right away ...."

I couldn't believe it !!!! If Uncle Jiang accepted this story, I was ready to let Jingyi do whatever he wanted to me next time !!!!

"Well dress up properly, Jin Ling you have a meeting with the XianDu. Do not be late. Lan Jingyi, I would be you, I would return to the apartments allocated to the Lan clan!...without being noticed!"

Uncle Jiang stared at us with his hands behind his back.

"The next time you want to drink tea, make sure you remove the jars that contain it !!!! I will not mention this incident, disciple of the Lan clan! In the future, remember that if alcohol is forbidden in your sect, it is because you have no resistance to wine!

Uncle Jiang came out of my room looking amused, which was very rare for him!

I looked at Jingyi in disbelief!

He thought that we had been drunk and that we had probably been sick! He had never imagined that this night was our first time together!

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