Chapter 143: Joffrey's Revenge

Westeros, King's Landing, the Red Keep.

King's Landing was extremely lively at this time, of course, this liveliness was only limited to the nobles.

The Red Castle was filled with guests walking around. Today was Joffrey Baratheon's wedding, and Highgarden had specially put out hundreds of thousands of gold dragons for this purpose.

The gift-giving session soon arrived, and Duke Mace Tyrell of Tyrell presented a golden cup inlaid with gems.

"I hope you will drink from this cup with my daughter Margery, and live a long and happy life."

"The golden cup is very beautiful, Your Excellency the Duke. Perhaps I should call you father."

Mace bowed and saluted, "It is my pleasure, Your Majesty."

Tyrion's gift was a book. Surprisingly, Joffrey did not humiliate Tyrion, but instead said thank you to his uncle.

But Tyrion keenly sensed that something was wrong, because he knew very well how much Joffrey hated him.

As expected, after Lord Tywin Lannister presented a Valyrian steel sword, Joffrey excitedly picked up the Valyrian steel sword and chopped the book given by Tyrion into pieces.

This sword was melted from Eddard Stark's heavy sword and split into two. One was given to Joffrey, and the other was given to Jaime Lannister by Tywin, who then gave it to Brienne of Arc.

The Valyrian steel sword is indeed the sharpest steel sword. Thick books are like tofu in front of it.

"Such a magical weapon should have a name."

Seeing this, the other nobles immediately shouted out the names they thought of, and one of them caught Joffrey's interest.

"Widow's Wail, what a name! Every time I swing this sword it's like I'm chopping off Eddard Stark's head again."

Hearing this, Sansa resented Joffrey in her heart, but she could only turn her head away.

The other nobles also despised Joffrey's cruelty in their hearts, and couldn't help but think of the rising Long family in the north.

Tywin also frowned slightly. He wanted to take advantage of this wedding to win over other nobles, but Joffrey's behavior would definitely make the nobles feel resentful.

The Starks are, after all, the Guardians of the North, and have ruled the North for thousands of years. They are a very prominent family, but now they are being humiliated by Joffrey.

But at this time Joffrey was the King of the Seven Kingdoms and the Lord of the Iron Throne, so they could only pretend they didn't hear it.

As the wedding progressed, countless exquisite dishes were served.

Tywin and Cersei met Prince Oberyn together. At this time, Oberyn had already learned about his brother's plan with the dragon family, so he was even more sarcastic when talking to Tywin.

Soon the highlight came. Joffrey stood up and arrogantly told everyone to shut up, saying that the royal wedding could not just be about entertainment, but about examining history.

But Joffrey's way of looking at history is clearly not something a normal person could come up with.

Joffrey recruited several dwarfs to act out the War of the Five Kings and use it to humiliate his uncle Tyrion.

Joffrey laughed out loud.

The nobles present watched this absurd scene, but many of them chose to agree with Joffrey.

Varys had a blank expression on his face, and a dwarf even accidentally hit him on the head with a cloth hammer when he passed by.

Varys was speechless after being hit, but he could only continue to watch this ridiculous dwarf performance.

Especially Sansa, she watched the scene expressionlessly, watching the dwarf perform a show to humiliate her father and brother.

When the dwarf's performance was over, most people chose to applaud, but a few people watched the scene expressionlessly.

Olenna was one of them. She was even more determined to make a plan. She would never let her granddaughter marry such a cruel and absurd king, even if she didn't want to be the queen!

Tywin applauded while observing the expressions and reactions of the crowd, and memorized some people's names.

But to everyone's surprise, Joffrey suddenly stood up, holding a bag of gold dragons in his hand, and said to the dwarf who played Joffrey:

"Good performance, this is the champion's reward, but you are not champions yet. The real champion must defeat all challengers.

But there must be someone who dares to challenge my authority, uncle, why don't you come, there must be extra costumes."

Joffrey wanted to humiliate Tyrion and establish his own authority, but Tyrion's most powerful skill was his mouth.

Tyrion stood up with a smile, "The previous war is enough for me, Your Majesty."

Everyone knew that Tyrion was referring to the Battle of the Blackwater. Tyrion made a great contribution in that war, but after the war he only got a meaningless position as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Tyrion continued, "I want to save what's left of my face. You should fight in person. Their performance is just a poor imitation of your bravery on the battlefield."

Tyrion was implicitly mocking Joffrey's desertion from the battlefield. Almost everyone knew about this, and it was not a secret. Many people saw it at the time.

"I saw it all. Perhaps you can step down from your high table, new Valyrian steel in hand, and show us how a true king wins his throne!"

"But you have to be careful. The guy who plays you is obviously too horny. It would be terrible if the king loses his virginity before the wedding night."

Tyrion's words made everyone laugh, but then they immediately stopped laughing. It was obviously not a wise thing to laugh at a cruel and petty king.

Joffrey's chest was heaving wildly at this moment, and he was obviously furious to the extreme.

He picked up a glass of red wine and came behind Tyrion, who took a sip of the red wine in front of him slowly.

Joffrey poured all the wine in his hand over Tyrion's head.

Tyrion forced a smile and said calmly, "It's a pity to just throw away the fine wine from Poseidon's brew, from the other side of the continent."

"It's not spilled, it's..."

Before Joffrey could finish his words, Margaery said in a sweet voice, "Come back to me, dear, it's my father's turn to toast."

Seeing this, Joffrey gave up the idea of ​​humiliating Tyrion any further and turned back to Margaery.

"Toasting is not possible without a wine waiter. Uncle, you will be my wine waiter since you dare not participate in the competition."

Tyrion knew that Joffrey would not let him go so easily.

"I do not deserve such an honor." Tyrion was about to decline.

But Joffrey obviously had no intention of letting him go. "This is no honor."

Tyrion stared at Joffrey, but he knew that he was no longer acting Prime Minister and had no power at all.

So he took a deep breath, left his seat and slowly walked to Joffrey, ready to take the cup and pour wine for Joffrey.