After the Fourth Master personally fed Lanqin the brown sugar water, he instructed Nianxue to serve Lanqin before leaving. Nianxue, puzzled, looked at the embarrassed Lanqin and said, "Master, why does Master's expression look so strange?"

"Nianxue, I've started my period," Lanqin said, lying in bed.

“…” Nianxue blushed. Although menstruation was not something to be ashamed of, why did it have to happen at this time?

Now, the Fourth Prince had originally intended to spend some time with Lanqin, but the little woman's words completely shattered his plans, so he had no choice but to leave and let the maids serve him. Meanwhile, there were still four princesses he had left there in the dining hall.

Because Lanqin had started her period, the Fourth Prince hadn't originally planned to stay overnight at Huangjue Temple, but seeing that Lanqin wasn't feeling well, he decided to stay the night and return the next day. The four princesses were each assigned to one of the four rooms by the Fourth Prince. Naturally, the Fourth Prince shared a room with Lanqin so that he could take care of her personally.

"How are you? Still feeling unwell?" Fourth Master sat on a round stool in front of the bed, looking at Lanqin. A hot water bottle was placed on her stomach, and she was leaning against the bed with her brows furrowed.

"Master, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. It hurts~" Lanqin hadn't expected her period to come so heavily. While she'd experienced discomfort during her periods before, it had never been this painful. Wasn't it said that a woman's period would improve after childbirth? That's not true at all!

Seeing Lanqin's expression, Fourth Master suddenly stood up and began to take off his outer clothes.

"What are you doing, Master?" Lanqin asked, looking at the Fourth Master, thinking to herself, "I'm already like this, do you still want to do this or that?"

Fourth Master ignored Lanqin, took off his outer robe, sat down next to Lanqin's bed, and then squeezed his feet onto the bed.

Lanqin had no choice but to move over a bit. Fourth Master then crawled into Lanqin's quilt, hugged her, and said, "Sleep for a while, I'll hold you."

Seeing that Fourth Master didn't seem to have any intention of doing anything inappropriate, Lanqin lay down beside him. Fourth Master then embraced her, placing one large hand on Lanqin's lower abdomen and gently massaging it.

So, he was going to rub her stomach! Lanqin felt a warmth in her heart, closed her eyes, and let the Fourth Master hold her.

Seeing that their masters were already in bed, the maids naturally didn't want to stay nearby, so they all retreated. Nianxue went to make brown sugar water for Lanqin, while Shuiling, along with the little maid Lanqin had taken in, stood guard outside the meditation room.

"Sister Shuiling, our master is so good to our master," the little maid said.

“Of course, our master has always been very favored by the master. Moreover, the master treats us very well, never hitting or scolding us. We eat and drink what the master has left over, and wear fabrics bestowed by the master. You, you've really met a good master this time,” Shui Ling said to the little maid.

"Then I'll serve the master with Sister Shuiling from now on, and I won't have to go hungry anymore," the little girl said with a big smile.

"Of course. You won't go hungry." Shui Ling patted the little girl's shoulder as she saw her bright smile.

After Lanqin and Fourth Master took a nap in the meditation room, they woke up to find it was already dark outside.

"How are you? Is your stomach still upset?" Lanqin woke up to find the bedside empty. Fourth Master was already up, but he was sitting by the bedside. As soon as Lanqin woke up, he asked with concern.

"I'm much better, but I need to have the maids come in to serve me. Could you excuse me for a moment, sir?" Lanqin said apologetically.

Fourth Master knew a lot about women's affairs, so he quickly said, "Alright, I'll go to the vegetarian hall and see what you'd like to eat tonight."

Lanqin's eyes lit up and she said, "You decide, Master." She used to prepare dinner for Fourth Master, but now she'd let him prepare it for her.

After Fourth Master left, Nianxue and Shuiling came in with the little maid. They helped Lanqin change her menstrual pad and then changed her clothes. Luckily, they had these things with them, otherwise it would have been very difficult to find such items in this temple.

Lanqin had long since grown accustomed to being waited on, and the unease she felt when she first transmigrated, having to be served for everything from food and drink to toileting, was gone. Now, she was perfectly at ease enjoying it all.

“Master, please give this little girl a name. We can’t keep calling her ‘little girl’ all the time,” Nianxue said to Lanqin.

Lanqin looked at the little girl who had changed her clothes and washed her face. She was quite pretty, especially her eyes, which looked very clever when she looked around.

"Please, Master, bestow a name upon me!" the little maidservant hurriedly approached Lanqin and said.

"Let's call you Chunying, just like the delicate and beautiful cherry blossoms in early spring," Lanqin said, looking at the little girl.

"Thank you for bestowing this name upon me, Master!" Chunying immediately curtsied.

Now, the Fourth Master inspected the dining hall and, recalling Lanqin's favorite dishes and appetite, asked the monks in charge of cooking to prepare a vegetarian meal for Lanqin.

Fourth Master also ordered dinner for everyone else, having the monks from the temple deliver it to them. He himself took Lanqin's vegetarian meal to Lanqin's place to eat together.

"Has your master gotten up yet?" Fourth Master and Su Peisheng, carrying the vegetarian meal box, had just arrived at the door of Lanqin's meditation room when they saw the little maid standing there and asked casually.

“Master, please get up. Please give me the food box.” Chunying reached out to take the food box from Fourth Master’s hand.

However, the Fourth Master did not give her any indication. Instead, he brushed past her and entered the meditation room.

Lanqin sat by the window, watching the faint afterglow of dusk outside. She saw the night slowly rising like a tide, gradually swallowing up the temple built in the mountains.

Fourth Master and Lanqin sat facing each other. The meal that Fourth Master had brought for Lanqin was already laid out on the table. It was all made with vegetarian dishes, but it tasted really good.

"Master, don't you want to know what Yichen said to me?" Lanqin asked the Fourth Master.

"Didn't you already say that?" Fourth Master glanced at Lanqin and said. He didn't actually believe in Buddhism; he believed more in the power of authority.

“Master, it may take a long time before you can achieve your wish. But not now,” Lanqin couldn’t help but say. She knew that the Eighth Prince was actively lobbying everywhere, and there were many people inside and outside the court who favored him. Even the words the Eighth Prince said in public in the dining hall today were a provocation against the Fourth Prince.

Fourth Master's heart trembled slightly; he had never given up his desire for that position. However, he had never revealed a trace of it to anyone. The only person who knew what he was thinking was Thirteenth Master.

"You don't need to worry. I know what I'm doing. Eighth Brother looks so determined to win, I want to see how long he can keep this up," Fourth Master said.