Xiao Yan stuffed the soup bowl into the Eighth Prince's hands and said coldly, "Take your things and stay away from my Highness! What good will it do you to come closer? You are so stupid!"
Xiao Yan spoke the last few words in a very low voice, but Ji Yunhuan still heard it.
She could imagine Xiao Yan's awkward look. He clearly wanted to care about the poor Eighth Prince, but he was so harsh in his words.
The eighth prince was driven away by a palace maid, but he was not angry at all. Instead, he seemed to blame himself.
"I was... I didn't think it through. Mother told me that Big Brother is too outstanding. Outstanding people are always envied... jealous. So there are always bad people who want to harm... harm Big Brother. It's always better to be cautious."
Faced with such straightforward praise, Xiao Yan's face was a little unnatural. He coughed dryly and said, "It's good that you understand. Go back. No matter what happens later, don't interrupt. Just take care of yourself."
Xiao Mu nodded repeatedly. He glanced at his "big brother" sitting in the wheelchair and smiled with his big white teeth. "Don't worry, big brother. I won't cause you any trouble."
The fourth prince was drunk and came over with a wine jug. Upon hearing this, he shouted mockingly:
"One is a stutterer, the other is a cripple. I don't know who is bothering whom."
The eighth prince called out "Fourth Brother" and then shrank to one side without saying anything.
It has been like this since he was a child. As long as he doesn't resist and lets his brothers bully him, they will naturally let him go when they get bored.
Ji Yunhuan retorted bluntly, "Fourth brother, who are you scolding? If the emperor hears you, you will be punished for disrespecting your brother."
The Fourth Prince, reeking of alcohol, carelessly patted Ji Yunhuan on the leg and laughed, "Of course I'm scolding you. You're just a piece of shit, and you think you're the crown prince everyone admires?"
"If the emperor loved you, he wouldn't have abandoned you in the Eastern Palace for three years. A languid loser like you is worthy of being my brother, hahahaha...it's a joke!"
Ji Yunhuan's expression remained calm as he said calmly, "At least I was once the crown prince. What about you? You're just a dog following Xiao Peng. So what? He sent you to bark at me, and you came. You're such a good dog!"
"You..." The fifth prince was so angry that he threw the wine jug in his hand towards Ji Yunhuan!
Xiao Yan stretched out his hand to block the wine jug, which brushed past Ji Yunhuan's forehead and hit the door with a clang.
Ji Yunhuan covered her forehead and cried out, "Ah!" She said in horror, "Fourth brother! What do you want to do? Are you going to kill me?"
Blood flowed down Ji Yunhuan's hand, it looked shocking!
The Fourth Prince was almost sober. He just threw the wine jug away casually. The palace maid had clearly blocked it, so how could this useless guy bleed so much?
"You're talking nonsense! I didn't hit you at all! Besides, it was just a wine jug, how did you make it into a murder case?"
In full view of everyone, Ji Yunhuan took his hand down. His palm was covered in blood, and there was a huge bloody hole on his forehead, which was still oozing blood.
When Xiao Mu saw his elder brother bleeding profusely, he could no longer hold back and burst into tears.
"Fourth brother, you're too... too much! It's fine if you scolded Big Brother, but how could you... hit him? Big Brother is in poor health, you're trying to... take his life..."
The Fourth Prince was completely sober. He glared at Xiao Mu fiercely and shouted angrily, "Shut up!"
Xiao Mu didn't dare to say anything more, but he had said everything he needed to say, and the people in the hall had also seen it, that it was the Fourth Prince who injured people.
The emperor sat on a high platform and had already seen everything. He was just too lazy to care about such trivial matters. But now that Xiao Yan saw blood, he had to take care of it.
"It's so noisy! How disgraceful!" The emperor slammed the table in front of him with a look of anger on his face.
The Fourth Prince immediately knelt down, looking even more aggrieved than the bleeding First Prince. "Your Majesty, I am only here to toast you, Big Brother. I don't know what your intentions are, deliberately injuring yourself to slander me."
Ji Yunhuan blinked, and thick blood flowed down his eyelids, instantly covering half of his face.
She sighed and smiled bitterly, "Fourth brother is right. I am just a useless person. Even father doesn't care whether I live or die. Whatever fourth brother says is what it is. It is all my fault."
The Fourth Prince was speechless and for a moment he didn't know how to defend himself.
Concubine Wu was surprised. Xiao Yan had always been straightforward. When had he become like this? He was being cunning and retreating to advance. If the emperor really ignored him, wouldn't that make him unkind?
Given the emperor's character, he would never ignore Xiao Yan's life or death in front of everyone.
Concubine Wu glanced at the Fifth Prince with a warning in her eyes. This had already been arranged, but the Fifth Prince insisted on making things more complicated and letting the Fourth Prince go out and scream, making it difficult to resolve the situation now.
The fifth prince quietly bowed to his mother, obviously wanting to protect the fourth prince. Without his fourth brother, it would be so boring for him to have fun alone.
Concubine Wu took a deep breath, peeled a grape with her delicate hands, and fed it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, don't be angry. It's just a fight between children. Brothers in the world have always fought each other since they were young. In my opinion, if they don't fight, they are not real brothers. This is what makes the princes seem close."
The Fourth Prince breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said loudly, "Yes, yes, yes, Your Majesty is right. I admire you, Big Brother, and that's why I want to be close to you."
The emperor slammed the table and feigned anger, saying, "Ayan is in poor health and has been paralyzed for many years. How could he possibly play with you like he used to? You bastard, why don't you apologize to your elder brother?"
The fourth prince bowed to his eldest brother in the wheelchair and said insincerely, "My younger brother is a little rude. Don't take it personally."
Ji Yunhuan sneered in his heart. He had never seen such partiality. She was bleeding so much, but he just gave up with a light apology.
The emperor took advantage of the situation to smooth things over, then put on a fatherly face and ordered, "Come, get the imperial physician to see the eldest prince. A man like you is so desperate for life after a minor injury. Don't do that again."
The blood on Ji Yunhuan's face dripped onto her shoulder, forming a bright red flower. She lowered her head and said respectfully, "Your Highness, I will follow your father's instructions."
The emperor was finally satisfied. "If I had been more sensible earlier, I wouldn't have ended up like this."
The imperial physician arrived soon. The emperor obviously did not pay much attention to the eldest prince, so the eunuch invited a young imperial physician who had just entered the palace. After the imperial physician examined the eldest prince, he gave him a simple bandage and then left.
Ji Yunhuan's face was pale, and the cotton cloth on her forehead was bleeding. She looked extremely weak, but the emperor did not ask the eldest prince to go back and rest, so she naturally could not leave the table.
Xiao Yan was extremely worried. He half-knelt beside Ji Yunhuan and carefully wiped the blood off her face. "Are you okay? Does it hurt? Forget about this bullshit plan. Let's go back."
In an unnoticed corner, Ji Yunhuan chuckled, "Your Highness, what are you talking about? This is all fake! Even the blood bag was given to me by the little genius doctor. Your Highness, have you forgotten all that?"
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