Chapter 101 Sister's Award

Wen Kehao slept on the floor of Wen Zhiming's room all night. When he woke up, he found that Wen Zhiming's shoes and socks were off to one side, a quilt was under him, and a soft blanket was covering him.

Sunlight streamed through the window into the room, carrying a faint, almost imperceptible scent of medicine.

Wen Kehao stood up and saw that his older brother Wen Zhiming was still unconscious. He went over to check on him and was relieved to find that the other was breathing normally.

A slight noise came from the courtyard. Wen Kehao pushed open the door and saw a figure in gray-blue busy in the corner of the courtyard. A simple stove had been set up in the originally empty courtyard, with firewood burning brightly below and steam rising from the clay pot above.

It seems the medicinal fragrance I smelled earlier was coming from here.

Wen Kehao nervously tried to sneak back to his room. He didn't know what had gotten into him last night. He had actually acted coquettishly and asked for comfort in front of a girl. It was as if he had been possessed by a ghost. He felt embarrassed when he thought about it now and didn't know how to face Su Leyan.

"You're awake? Perfect timing, your medicine should be ready soon. Come sit here."

Su Leyan had already spotted him. The young girl smiled radiantly, and today a half-open lotus flower was tucked into her hairpin, making her appear even more elegant and refined.

Wen Kehao had no choice but to walk forward and sit on the stone bench next to her.

"These things can be left to the maids in the outer courtyard. There's a special place in the kitchen to brew medicine. Look what you've done to this perfectly good courtyard!"

He tried his best to regain his usual tone and indifference, but when he spoke, even he himself felt that he had completely lost his previous sharpness.

Su Leyan poured the medicinal broth from the casserole into a white porcelain bowl. "The heat and time required to brew this medicine are very important, and I don't trust others to do it. I did think of brewing it in the kitchen, but I was afraid you would be worried if you couldn't find me when you woke up, so I could only set up a small stove here. If you don't like it, I'll take it down later."

The words, "I'm afraid you'll be worried if you wake up and can't find me," warmed Wen Kehao's heart.

He said with an unnatural expression.

"No need to dismantle it. You can brew the medicine wherever you want."

Su Leyan sat down next to him, scooped out the medicine with a spoon, blew on it, and then offered it to Wen Kehao's lips with an innocent smile.

"This medicine must be drunk while it's hot; I've been simmering it for several hours."

Wen Kehao didn't move, and asked in confusion, "Is this medicine brewed for me?"

He only suffered some superficial injuries. After Su Leyan applied ointment last night, he has recovered about 60-70% today and there is no need for him to take any more medicine.

He had assumed it was medicine prepared for his elder brother.

Su Leyan pinched his chin with one hand and smiled as she fed him a spoonful.

“The young master Wen is not poisoned; he only needs to wait for the princess consort to provide the medicinal ingredient. But you are different. Yueyin Shuang is not an ordinary poison. If you don’t drink something to suppress it, it will be impossible to cure you.”

Wen Kehao swallowed the medicine and exclaimed in shock.

"You mean Moon Shadow Frost has an antidote? And you can cure it?"

Seeing that he was sensible enough to drink the medicine, Su Leyan continued to feed him spoonful by spoonful, "It's not that simple. The most powerful thing about Moon Shadow Frost is that there is no antidote. But what I brewed for you can suppress Moon Shadow Frost, so it can at least keep you alive for a few more days."

"Why make such a fuss over a few days?" Wen Kehao stood up. "I lost my temper yesterday, but I won't do it again."

He didn't finish his medicine and turned to walk back inside. "I'll go out and find out more later. Since my brother doesn't need to brew medicine, let's just tear this place down. It smells awful."

Knowing that Su Leyan would be disappointed, he stubbornly refused to turn back.

Some even blamed themselves for losing their minds yesterday, wondering why they had bothered with that girl when their days were numbered.

Back in the room, he couldn't resist hiding behind the window to peek.

He saw Su Leyan remove the lotus flower from her hair and angrily throw it on the table. After sitting there in a daze for a while, she found a broken basin in the corner, filled it with some well water, and stuck the lotus flower in it.

The ugly stove still occupies a corner of the yard, and Su Leyan has no intention of tearing it down.

Wen Kehao felt a mix of emotions, a mixture of happiness and sadness. He took a deep breath and jumped out of the window at the back of the room.

Before he even left the mansion, he saw the eunuch who was delivering the imperial decree.

Wen Kehao's brow twitched, fearing that the emperor was plotting something again.

Surprisingly, it was a eunuch who came to deliver the news that the Emperor had ordered Prince Wen and his wife to divorce.

Wen Kehao was initially puzzled and uneasy, but when he heard his father-in-law say that Meng Lingge had returned to the Meng residence, he immediately felt relieved. After seeing his father-in-law off, he immediately returned to the courtyard, grabbed Su Leyan, and walked outside.

"Where are we going? My good intentions have been wasted; the medicine I prepared is being ignored. And now you're pulling and tugging at me?"

Su Leyan was still angry. She forcefully shook off his hand and went to fiddle with her medicine.

Wen Kehao followed behind her and explained.

"The Emperor has ordered Meng Lingge to divorce my elder brother. Meng Lingge has now returned to the Meng residence. You are on good terms with her, so ask her to come here and exorcise the curse from my brother."

Su Leyan glanced back at him and said, "You're more anxious than the young couple about their business. If this is true, Meng Lingge will definitely try to find Wen Zhiming. If you rush over here so rashly and get spotted by the people at your gate, you'll ruin their plans."

Wen Kehao had always known that there were guards at the gate of the mansion.

He had been dreaming about how to rescue Meng Lingge all night, and when he heard that Meng Lingge had returned to the Meng residence, he was so overjoyed that he forgot about the danger and only wanted to rescue Wen Zhiming as soon as possible.

Only after Su Leyan reminded him did he realize that he had almost ruined something big.

"The Anshun Prince's Mansion just had an incident, and Meng Lingge divorced my brother so quickly to avoid being implicated. If we don't go to her, are you sure she'll come looking for us?"

He still remembered the scene when Meng Lingge entrusted her elder brother to him. Meng Lingge said that she had been fed up with her elder brother for a long time and was finally free.

He wasn't sure if this was Meng Lingge's true feeling or just a way to provoke her older brother.

"She definitely will," Su Leyan said with certainty. "If she doesn't agree to a divorce, how could the Emperor possibly release her? If he doesn't release her, how can she save your brother?"

Wen Kehao retorted, unconvinced, "You seem to trust her quite a bit."

Su Leyan smiled slightly and began to ladle out the medicine again.

"It's not that I trust the Crown Princess, it's just a woman's intuition. Only women understand women. Whether she has feelings for Prince Wen or not, I can see it better than you do."

"So we're just going to wait here like this?"

"Yes! Just wait quietly. Come on, if you don't finish this, I'll really get angry." Su Leyan took the medicine bowl and placed it heavily in front of Wen Kehao.

As if afraid he would find it too bitter, Su Leyan held two candied fruits in her hand. This woman really spoiled him like a child.

A faint sense of anticipation stirred within Wen Kehao. He picked up the medicine bowl and drank it all in a few gulps, his gaze drifting to the candied fruit in Su Leran's hand.

"Slow down, why are you drinking it so fast when it's so hot?" Su Leran looked at him in shock, then put the candied fruit in her mouth and said while biting it, "Medicine should be drunk while it's hot, but not scalding hot. What if you burn your tongue and throat?"

So it wasn't meant for him to eat after all.

Just as Wen Kehao was feeling down, Su Leran put the last candied fruit in his mouth and said with a smile, "Be a good boy and take your medicine. This is your reward from your sister."