Chapter 154

Over the next few days, Emperor Jingxi suffered from intermittent fever and delirium, and the imperial physicians tried everything they could but to no avail.

Qin Su seemed to have also fallen seriously ill, rapidly losing weight, and standing in the wind, she looked as if she could be blown over at any moment.

Fortunately, Qin Su had been deeply involved in court politics over the years, and now that he had suddenly taken over the affairs of the court, everyone remained silent, and the situation was so stable that there was not a single disturbance.

After Emperor Jingxi fainted for what seemed like the umpteenth time, the imperial physician finally found Qin Su and tactfully suggested that there might be no way to save His Majesty, and that the princess could make some preparations in advance.

After he finished speaking, he waited for Qin Su to speak, then mustered his courage and looked up, meeting Qin Su's dark and deep eyes.

The imperial physician trembled and knelt down with a thud.

Qin Su looked at him for a few seconds, said nothing, and then turned and left.

After she left, the imperial physician collapsed to the ground, his mind still replaying Princess Zhaoyang's gaze, deeply sensing that disaster was imminent.

If His Majesty were to pass away, would Princess Zhaoyang really order the entire Imperial Hospital to be buried with him?

...

The palace servants noticed that Princess Zhaoyang was unusually cold and absent-minded that day. Before going to bed, she even dropped a teacup while drinking water, and a shard of porcelain cut the back of her hand, causing blood to flow from the wound.

The palace servants knelt down to beg for forgiveness and asked to summon the imperial physician, but Qin Su casually wiped her face with her fingertip and waved her hand, dismissing them all.

She didn't want to see anyone; she just wanted to be alone.

With heavy hearts, Qin Su gradually drifted off to sleep.

She didn't notice that the blood on the back of her hand had smeared onto the pearl hanging around her neck—the pearl she had held in her hand when she was born.

It's a system cat that has been waiting for over a decade without its owner calling it.

...

Before coming into this world, because Qin Su was going to be reborn into the Empress's womb, and it was not convenient for the cat to follow, it made a promise with her that it would transform into a pearl, partly to create a strange phenomenon, and partly to make it easier for them to wake up together.

According to their idea, the baby is covered in blood when it is born, and the cat can be easily activated.

But things just happened to be so coincidental. Qin Su held the pearl tightly in her little hand, so the pearl didn't get wet at all. Emperor Jingxi then put the pearl away and returned it to Qin Su when she was five years old. Over the years, she was treated like royalty and never had the chance to get wet.

Now that the cat has finally been awakened and the restriction has been lifted, all of Qin Su's memories have returned in an instant.

The system rushed into Qin Su's arms, rolling around and rubbing against her: "Su Su, Su Su, no one has brushed my fur for so many years, my fur is all messed up!"

Qin Su wasn't buying it. She grabbed it by the scruff of its neck and lifted it up, glaring at it: "You clearly have a way to wake me up on your own."

The system cat froze, its eyes darting around: "Ah, really? I don't remember how to do it..."

It would never admit that it hasn't lifted the restriction on its own initiative because it loves watching the chibi-style SuSu and is addicted to the fun of virtually raising SuSu.

Anyway, it always stays by Su Su's side, and it certainly won't stand idly by if there's any real danger.

Qin Su narrowed her eyes: "I'll settle the score with you after I leave this world."

The cat's ears drooped down, and it let out a weak whimper.

"As for Emperor Jingxi..." Qin Su turned her head, her eyes peering through layers of gauze towards the emperor's bedroom.

She hesitated for only a moment before saying, "Give him the dragon energy."

The cat stepped on the back of her hand with its paw, and the wound on the back of her hand disappeared in the next second.

The cat wrapped its tail around her wrist again, asking affectionately but with concern, "Susu, are you sure?"

When Qin Su asked it, Chu Congxia's wish involved the fate of a nation, what would it be in exchange for?

Cat said that Chu Congxia would exchange his Hundred Generations of Luck Value and the Dragon Vein of Dayu for it.

In other words, after Qin Su fulfills Chu Congxia's wish, he can absorb all the remaining dragon energy of Dayu, which is a huge amount of luck.

Now Qin Su wants to share the dragon's energy with Emperor Jingxi to prolong his life.

How much fortune would it take to change the fate of an emperor?

Qin Su smiled, lowered her eyelashes to soothe the system: "Confirmed, go ahead, consider it fulfilling my father-daughter bond in this life."

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P.S.: Actually, I hesitated for a long time at the beginning about whether to give the character of Emperor Jingxi to the male lead and make it a pseudo-raising setting, but in the end I decided to separate this character from the male lead.

Both familial love and romantic love are emotions. They may have commonalities, but they also have many differences. A person who only understands romantic love will not understand love. A person who truly understands love must understand romantic love, familial love, and friendship.

In fact, each of the first three worlds has its own focus: the first world is about love, the second world is about friendship, and the third world is about family. Su Su's feelings are gradually becoming more complete.