Upon hearing this, Li Shushu leaned aside and knelt on her own legs. She lowered her voice and replied, "This servant has committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

Gu Jingyan raised his eyebrows: "Oh?" This little girl is quite frank.

You are so honest now, what were you doing before?

Li Shushu continued, "Deceiving Your Majesty was against my will, but it was wrong. They, they threatened me with my life... I beg Your Majesty to consider that I was forced to do this and not take my head off."

As she spoke, tears began to fall like water, and in an instant the sheets of the dragon bed were wet.

After she took the initiative to apologize, she put Gu Jingyan on the spot.

To be honest, when he first realized that he had been cheated by someone, he was very angry and really thought about chopping off those people's heads.

But now that he had calmed down and was facing this person who was as scared as a little white rabbit, how could he bring himself to do it?

He was thinking, how innocent is this little girl in front of him?

If she had a choice, she would definitely not be willing to be someone else's replacement and be sent to the dragon bed...

Then they also..., there is no possibility of any other intersection...

Thinking of this, he seemed to have to thank those who did evil.

No, he would not let those people off easily, but the person in front of him was as innocent as himself. She was also a victim.

All in all, he was reluctant to punish him no matter what.

After figuring this out, he sighed softly, "You are as honest as ever."

He remembered that he had praised her in the same way the night she first slept with him.

He took the medicine bowl beside him, picked up the spoon, and scooped a spoonful from the bowl. "Here, drink the medicine first."

The person opposite him didn't dare to move when he heard that he was speaking ambiguously. He just frowned and stared at the medicine bowl, but didn't drink it. It seemed that he was another person who didn't like taking medicine.

Seeing this, Gu Jingyan had no choice but to patiently coax her, "Don't worry, I won't punish you. As long as you drink the medicine obediently, not only will I not punish you, I will also reward you."

Hearing this, she suddenly raised her head, her eyes still filled with tears, but she blinked them with an innocent joy, "Really?"

"Indeed!" He laughed and put the medicine spoon to her lips.

She frowned slightly and took a small sip obediently.

He scooped another spoonful and handed it to her. She blinked and looked at his face, then drank it obediently.

Just as he was about to scoop the third spoonful, she stretched out her fair little hand to stop him, "Your Majesty, no need, I will do it myself."

She took the medicine bowl from him, frowned, and looked at the bowl of black soup for a long time. A layer of mist seemed to gather in her eyes, as if she had suffered a great injustice.

Finally, he took a deep breath, made up his mind, lowered his head, and drank it all in one gulp.

Gu Jingyan felt like laughing as he watched from the side. It was just a bowl of medicine, but he was doing it reluctantly like a child.

Yet so well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed.

Seeing that she had finished drinking, he quickly took the candied fruit from the side, picked up a piece with his own hands, and put it into her mouth, "Here, this is a reward."

She reacted for a moment and answered obediently, "Oh!", then took the candied fruit with her lips slightly opened and tasted it in small sips.

After feeding the medicine, Gu Jingyan remembered something, stood up, and fumbled in the small cabinet next to him.

After a moment, he took out a small white porcelain bottle and sat back on the edge of the bed.

These things were always picked up by servants in the past, so he usually didn't pay attention to the exact location. But today, for some reason, he was "too lazy" to call the servants in.

He opened the small porcelain bottle, and a pleasant medicinal fragrance wafted out.

While Li Shushu was staring at him in a daze, he reached out and pulled her legs, gently rolling up her trouser legs, revealing a section of her slender calves as white as scallions.

There were already bruises on her knee. He frowned, dipped his ring finger into the small porcelain bottle to get some medicine, and gently tapped it on her knee...

"Hiss~" Although his movements were very gentle, Li Shushu still felt a stinging pain. She took a deep breath and moved her legs slightly, trying to retract them, but failed.

"Don't move!" He held one of her legs with one hand, and with the ring finger of the other hand, he drew circles gently and slowly on her knee.

"This medicine is very effective. Apply it and you'll heal quickly." Gu Jingyan explained patiently.

"But, Your Majesty, it hurts..." Although she knew he was doing this for her own good, the stimulation of the drug still made her tremble all over, and she just wanted to pull her legs away.

But he didn't do what she wanted. He tightened his grip on her legs, but his other hand was lighter. "Be good, it won't hurt in a while."

He was applying the makeup and blowing on it at the same time, and occasionally realized why he looked like an old father coaxing his daughter.

He smiled self-deprecatingly: If he had a daughter, perhaps he could be a qualified father, but unfortunately, he didn't have one.

After finishing all this, the two of them had nothing to say for a while. Gu Jingyan carefully looked at the person in front of him. He found that he had never really looked at her carefully before. He only remembered that she was soft to the touch, had a pleasant fragrance, and had an exceptionally well-behaved personality, and was occasionally a little smart...

When I took a closer look today, I realized that she was really beautiful.

The palace was filled with beauties. Although she was not wearing any makeup and was only wearing a plain white nightgown, she was no less beautiful than those concubines who had been carefully made up. She even had a more clean, pure, and charming aura...

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