Chapter 78 Enemies

The moment he heard the news, Chan Zhen's legs went weak and he had to rely on Lu Zhu to help him keep steady.

"What did you just say?" Zen Zhen clutched her hand helplessly. "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty..." Lu Zhu couldn't bear it. This was the first time she had seen such a bewildered look on Her Majesty's face. "Your Majesty was assassinated in the hunting grounds and remains in a coma."

Zen Zhen shook his head, tears suddenly falling down his cheeks like a broken string: "How could it be..."

She thought of the tall figure of that man, who, even in the face of thousands of people pointing fingers at him, still stood firmly before her, like a towering mountain that would never collapse.

Despite the hardships in his previous life, he never fell.

The past moments they had spent together flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern, finally settling on their last meeting, his words:

"Even if I die in front of you?"

She thought it was just a threat he made deliberately, but she didn't expect it to come true.

In an instant, Chan Zhen felt as if her chest was pierced through by a sword. The pain was so severe that she couldn't even straighten her waist. Cold sweat dripped down her face, mixing with her tears.

"Empress!" Luzhu supported her, her face full of heartache and worry.

"Help me get to the Purple Palace." Chan Zhen's voice was hoarse, her breathing rapid and almost suffocating. She held Lu Zhu's hand tightly, and when she raised her head again, her glass-like eyes seemed to be shattered, making it hard to look directly at them.

Luzhu's nose felt sore and she was speechless.

Zen Zhen bit his lip and repeated, "Take me to see him."

How could a person like him, who could chase someone from the previous life to this life and never let go, and play with everything in the palm of his hand, be assassinated unexpectedly?

He must have done it on purpose, just like he stabbed himself with her hairpin before, just to perform a self-torture trick in front of her and beg for her forgiveness in this way.

She would never forgive him. He had hurt her in this life, and he must repay her in this life.

Tears welled up in Luzhu's eyes: "I obey your command."

When Chan Zhen arrived at the Zichen Palace, she saw the imperial doctors carrying medicine boxes in and out with anxious faces. The unpleasant smell of herbs mixed with blood made her frown.

Guo Kai was the first to see him: "Madam, why are you here?"

"How is His Majesty?" Zen Zhen saw that his face was full of sorrow, and the worry in his eyes was almost overflowing. His heart suddenly tightened. "Is it serious?"

Guo Kai glanced inside and said, "Your Majesty hasn't woken up yet."

When Chan Zhen heard these words from Guo Kaikou, he finally realized that what Lu Zhu had said was true. He wasn't pretending to deceive her, but was actually seriously injured, even in danger of his life.

"I want to go in and see him." Zen really couldn't imagine that a man like that would one day lie weakly in bed and be slaughtered by others.

"This..." Guo Kai hesitated a little, not because he was afraid that she had bad intentions, but because he knew that she was the one His Majesty was thinking about, and he was worried that she would feel uncomfortable after seeing that scene.

"Why?" Chan Zhen tilted her head to look at him. "As the Queen, don't I even have the right to see him?"

She rarely displayed her majesty as an empress in front of the palace maids, so Guo Kai immediately changed his attitude: "How dare I stop you, Your Majesty? I am afraid that you cannot bear the bloodshed."

bloody?

Zen Zhen clenched his palms. Just by hearing this word, he could imagine how serious the injury he had suffered at that time.

"I am not a delicate person." Zen Zhen really thought that even if he was a rotten corpse, she had to go and see him in person.

Guo Kai did not dare to stop him. As he walked into the inner room, a white-bearded imperial physician hurried out and almost bumped into him.

"Be careful, you almost bumped into the Empress." Guo Kai hurriedly blocked him and shouted in a low voice.

The imperial physician had been busy all night, and only when he heard the scolding did he look up. Seeing the person in the luxurious clothes, it was none other than the Empress, the most favored by His Majesty, he immediately said in panic, "I know I was wrong. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Zen Zhen didn't argue with him and asked, "Why are you so flustered? Is His Majesty awake?"

The imperial physician trembled, his anxiety visible. "Your Majesty has a high fever again. I was just about to send for some cooling medicine."

Chan Zhen was shocked. Even she knew how dangerous it was to have a high fever after being seriously injured, so she quickly made way for him.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" Guo Kai urged him.

After the imperial physician left, Chan Zhen slowly and laboriously made her way to the bedside, each step feeling incredibly heavy. She didn't stop until she saw the man lying on the bed, his face completely drained of blood, his entire upper body wrapped in bandages.

Guo Kai was behind her, breathing very lightly.

"Your Majesty..." Zenzhen tried to call him.

He closed his eyes, and for the first time, the man who never missed any of her calls did not respond to her.

"Your Majesty..." Zen Zhen was finally unable to bear the deathly silence and fell to the side of his bed. He held his hand on the bed with grievance and helplessness, "Please pay attention to me..."

She could hardly see the rise and fall of his chest, and even his breathing was so weak that it was almost inaudible. If it weren't for the burning sensation under her palm, she would have thought he had left her alone.

How could he bear to ignore her? He clearly said that he would stick with her for the rest of his life.

Zen Zhen had resented him before, but at this moment, all that came to his mind was how good he had been to him.

He protected her in front of all the officials, taught her calligraphy in his study, brush by brush, combed her hair and drew her eyebrows in the morning, and bent down to listen to the movement of her belly when she was pregnant...

Zen Zhen had a very hard life before he was fifteen, but after meeting him in this life, everything was sweet, a sweetness that even all the hatred in the previous life could not suppress.

"You did it on purpose!" The feelings that had been suppressed for a long time finally burst out at this moment, "You just want to force me to come to see you!"

She wondered vaguely what mistake she had made that she was haunted by this man in her past and present lives.

It hurts to hate him, it hurts to love him, it hurts to let go, and it hurts even more to not be able to let go.

Seeing her agitated, Guo Kai quickly stepped forward to persuade her, "Your Majesty, His Majesty is protected by the dragon's energy and will surely wake up safely."

"Then why didn't he respond to me?" Zen Zhen asked him tearfully, "You and he planned to lie to me, didn't you?"

As if she had found solace, she asked him with a glimmer of hope, "He is His Majesty, he is omnipotent, how could he be assassinated?"

He clearly protected her so well, how could he not even be able to protect himself?

Guo Kaicai then explained the situation to him: "...I thought the black bear had been dealt with, but who knew there was a hidden arrow as a backup."

"Who was it?" Chan Zhen had always known about the cruelty of the royal family, but he had never expected Prince Yu to attack his own father. "Was that cold arrow also the work of Prince Yu?"

"The situation was urgent at the time, and we couldn't find out the truth for a while." However, most people thought it was done by Prince Yu, but Prince Yu always gritted his teeth and refused to admit the sneak attack.

Zen calmed down a bit, "I see. Who is in charge of investigating this matter now?"

"Everyone present that day is a suspect. The matter has been handed over to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple for joint investigation." Guo Kai said.

"Was His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin also present at that time?" Yun Yi's figure suddenly appeared in Chan Zhen's mind. This instantaneous guess made her whole body go cold.

Guo Kai replied, "His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin was indeed present."

"I want to entrust you with something," Chan Zhen recalled the tiger talisman His Majesty had given him before he left. He hadn't expected it to be needed so soon. "Send someone to the Marquis of Jing'an's mansion. Don't alert anyone."

She was extremely grateful that she had studied with His Majesty before, which allowed her to avoid being thrown into disarray when encountering such an unexpected situation.

"Tell my brother to strengthen the guards in the palace during this period and keep an eye on Prince Jin's movements."

She desperately hoped that her suspicions wouldn't come true, that this incident had definitely not been committed by His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin. However, after much thought, she could only think of that one person who could have planned and harmed His Majesty.

After Guo Kai took the order and left, Chan Zhen looked back at the man on the bed.

"When you handed the tiger talisman to me that day, had you already anticipated today's situation?" Zen really thought that he had actually given her a hint a long time ago, but she was immersed in her resentment towards him and was unwilling to pay attention to him.

Zen Zhen smiled bitterly: "If it was really the King of Jin who did it, then it was me who harmed you."

The hatred between His Royal Highness Prince Jin and him, in past and present lives, was caused by himself.

"Since you've already anticipated this, why can't you avoid it?" She gently stroked the man's face, just as he had done to her. "Aren't you the highest and most powerful, and omnipotent?"

In his previous life, he was clearly able to suppress King Jin and force Yun Yi to let go. How could he not be on guard against Yun Yi in this life?

"Why on earth?" Zen Zhen thought he was omnipotent and could remain calm even when faced with a disaster. But it turned out that he could also be injured and die.

In his previous life, he watched her die with his own eyes. I wonder if he felt the same way as he does now.

"I will never forgive you." She suddenly glared at his pale face and said, "You owe me a lifetime. Don't think you can get away with it so easily. You must spend your whole life repaying me."

After venting his anger, Zen Zhen fell into silence again.

It was not until the imperial physician came in with the medicine that Chan Zhen raised his head and said to him, "Give it to me."

The imperial physician knew her position in the emperor's heart, so he responded to her requests and explained everything in detail to her.

Chan Zhen listened very carefully. The arrow wound on his chest was the most serious. If it was an inch deeper, he would have died on the spot. It would also be very dangerous to pull out the arrow. The second most serious injury was the wound on his shoulder.

His shoulder bones were almost completely shattered by the bear's paw. Even if he recovered, he would no longer be able to do anything. He could still write with a pen, but he certainly wouldn't be able to hold a sword again.

Then he won’t be able to hug me and Zhao’er anymore.

Zenzhen suddenly felt a wave of sadness, which almost made her cry again.

"I've remembered everything." She nodded to the imperial physician before taking the medicine from him.

The most important thing now is to reduce his fever first, and then slowly treat the arrow wound and shoulder injury.

Zenzhen tested the temperature before feeding him the medicine, but he was now unconscious and couldn't even swallow.

"You did it on purpose." Zen Zhen looked at him angrily for several times before closing his eyes, taking the potion into his mouth, and then leaning over to pass it to him.

Later, when applying medicine, Chan Zhen saw the shocking wounds on his body, and his eyes turned red with empathy, and his body couldn't help shaking.

"enemy……"

Make her hate and love.

Finally, after packing up everything, Zen Zhen couldn't help but lean against the head of the bed and lean against him gently. Only when he couldn't see did she dare to face her feelings.

She loves him. He holds her in his hands and protects her so much in this life. How can she not love him?

"We'll finish this when you wake up."

The past life is gone, the rest of life is long, and everything must move forward.