Chương 960: Princess Camelia Home

The victory party celebrations drew itself deep, deep into the night, as Alexander was forced to meet and entertain all the attending nobles, hundreds of them, with each only slightly altering the same hackneyed praises he had heard a thousand times. all pertaining to praising his exploits and then toasting to his success.

Sure, Alexander had enjoyed the adulation for the first few times.

But after perhaps the fiftieth time, his ears began to hurt.

Worse, he could not even get drunk to drown out these 'noises' as it would have seen as much to impolite.

Instead, due to the sheer number of toasts being made, Alexander's wife Cambyses had the servants switch his drinks from wine to just red dyed water with sugar and vinegar mixed in, just to keep her husband from tipping over.