Nangong Chiyu: "You want it?"
Su Luo nodded: "That's right. If you give it to me as payment, I'll try acupuncture on you, but I can't guarantee that you'll remember your past."
Alone, this money meant nothing to Nangong Chiyu.
"Alright, I promise you. After the acupuncture, come to Prince Yu's residence to retrieve the jade pillow."
Nangong Manyu took Nangong Qing's arm and lowered her head slightly. Her father had said that this jade pillow would be used as a betrothal gift when Prince Yu got married.
But if the jade pillow can cure his illness, then it's okay if the betrothal gift is less.
If Prince Yu has any family members he remembers, he can bring them over and they can live a good life.
"Alright! Shall we begin now, or shall I come to your residence tomorrow to perform acupuncture on you?"
Anyway, Su Luo wasn't in a hurry at all. If the Imperial Hospital couldn't cure Nangong Chiyu, then his jade pillow would only be Su Luo's possession.
"Right now."
The head of the Imperial Medical Academy immediately ordered the physicians to prepare the side rooms, as acupuncture requires quiet, so they all waited outside.
"Prince Yu, please have a seat!"
There was a small bed in the side room. Su Luo wanted him to lie down, but he was too tall, so she suggested he sit instead.
He glanced at Su Luo, figuring she wouldn't dare do anything to him.
Nangong Chiyu sat down, and Su Luo stood behind him, gently untying the hair ornament on his head.
Her long black hair cascaded down, and after smoothing it, Su Luo's fingertips rested on a scar on the back of his head.
The scar is estimated to be six centimeters long and four millimeters wide. It has damaged hair follicles, so no hair can grow on it anymore.
The scar is in the middle; if he ties his hair up, you can't tell there's a scar there.
Su Luo observed his injuries; could this be the reason he had lost his memory?
"Have you touched enough?"
Nangong Chiyu felt Su Luo's fingers constantly touching his scar, and he disliked that feeling.
"I am a doctor. How can I treat you without examining your injuries?"
Acupuncture can only be an aid, but it cannot restore his memory. However, Su Luo wants his jade pillow.
"hurry up!"
"good……"
Su Luo washed her hands, took out her silver needle bag, and gently inserted it into his head, pressing on the acupoints.
The head has the most acupoints, and the acupoints Su Luo selected were all locations that strongly react to the brain, stimulating his brain nerves.
"Try to recall if there are any images that amplify your dreams or occasionally appear in your mind."
After hearing Su Luo's words, Nangong Chiyu closed his eyes and tried hard to recall the images that had flashed through his mind, but he still couldn't remember anything.
"It's no use!"
If that didn't work, then Su Luo could only add more silver needles. After she had done most of the needling, Su Luo turned around and stood in front of him again.
He bent down and gently inserted the silver needles into the acupoints on Nangong Chiyu's head, focusing all his attention on the point. The sound of his breath reached Nangong Chiyu's ears, but he was completely unaware.
Opening his eyes, Nangong Chiyu saw Su Luo's face close to his, with fair skin, slightly moist lips, and a pair of eyes as black as obsidian staring at the silver needle in her hand.
Nangong Chiyu was stunned. He felt like he had seen those eyes before.
In order to retain this information, Nangong Chiyu's eyes never left Su Luo's eyes.
In an instant, an image flashed in my mind: a girl wearing faded white clothes.
She was eating a steamed bun made of broken rice and sweet potato, and she ate it very quickly, as if she hadn't eaten for many days, laughing as she ate.
She was so thin that a steamed bun could cover the lower half of her face, but her eyes were exceptionally bright.
"No...no!"
Nangong Chiyu snapped out of his daze and muttered to himself.
Su Luo stopped what she was doing, bent down and asked him with a smile, "How is it? Did you remember something?"
Looking into Su Luo's eyes again, while the blurry image was still in his mind, he carefully compared them. When those eyes smiled, they were exactly the same as Su Luo's at that moment.
Nangong Chiyu suddenly grabbed Su Luo's wrists, his breath coming in short gasps and his whole body trembling: "Tell me, who exactly are you?"
Su Luo tried to break free from his grasp, but he was too strong, and Su Luo had no chance to struggle.
"You're asking a question you already know the answer to!"
Seeing that he was in a daze, Su Luo forcefully pulled her hand away, but Nangong Chiyu reacted quickly and pulled Su Luo back with a single step.
Su Luo's knees hit the bed, and her body fell backward due to inertia. Nangong Chiyu was still holding her hand, and he fell down with Su Luo.
Su Luo exhaled sharply, feeling as if a heavy weight was pressing down on her.
"Nangong Chiyu, let me go."
Nangong Chiyu pressed Su Luo's two wrists against her ears. His mind was buzzing, and similar images flashed back and forth in his mind.
His brows were furrowed, and his bloodshot eyes were fixed on Su Luo.
Seeing that he was unmoved, Su Luo took a big bite out of his forearm.
"Nangong Chiyu, believe it or not, I'll kill you."
After a long while, Nangong Chiyu finally released Su Luo, sat down beside her, and endured the pain in his head.
"I'm sorry, I lost control just now."
The first thing Su Luo did after getting up was to remove all the silver needles from Nangong Chiyu's head, regardless of whether Nangong Chiyu was in pain or not.
"Meeting you is never a good thing. The acupuncture is over. Please have the jade pillow prepared for me tomorrow, Prince Yu. I will come to pick it up myself."
Watching Su Luo's departing figure, Nangong Chiyu covered his left forearm with his right hand, where Su Luo had bitten him earlier.
This place seems to have been bitten before, and the scene between him and Su Luo just now overlaps with the image in his mind.
Who exactly is Su Luo? Why does being with Su Luo evoke these memories? Did he know Su Luo before?
The scene was very dark, but he clearly knew there was a woman there. Could it be that he was already married?
No, everything is still unclear.
Nangong Manyu ran in and saw Nangong Chiyu sitting there motionless. Su Luo had already left, so why was Nangong Chiyu still acting so strangely?
"Prince Yu, are you alright? Have you remembered anything?"
Looking up at Nangong Manyu, he felt absolutely no urge to recall the images in his mind.
It seems that if we want to remember the past, we still have to rely on Su Luo; she must know something.
"I am unharmed!"
As he spoke, Nangong Chiyu left the Imperial Hospital with light steps. The two blurry images that flashed through his mind today were the clearest fragments in his mind.
Su Luo, it seems he needs to have someone investigate this woman thoroughly.
Su Luo and Nangong Qing left the palace and went directly to Fumanlou, where Xie Wanwan and Shenyuan were waiting for them.
“Madam Su, these are all new patterns we bought from various embroidery workshops in the capital. The patterns and color schemes are all the latest.”
Xie Wanwan handed a pile of embroidered handkerchiefs and clothing patterns to Su Luo to look at.
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