"I'm not leaving. If you don't explain yourself clearly, I won't leave today." Xiao Yi also started to act stubbornly. He had a feeling that if he left like this today, he would definitely regret it.
"Then you can stay here, whether you want to leave or not." After saying that, Nan Wusi ignored Xiao Yi and stared blankly at the ceiling.
Suddenly she felt Xiao Yi lie down on her and squeeze closer to her.
"What are you doing?" Nan Wusi shouted angrily.
"I'll just stay here; it's more comfortable in bed," Xiao Yi said, looking at Nan Wusi with an innocent expression.
"Hmph, Your Highness Prince Yi has beautiful women to keep you company in your palace, why bother coming here to keep me company, the ugliest woman in the capital?" Nan Wusi couldn't help but speak sarcastically.
She had seen the woman's face clearly today; she was indeed a stunning beauty, not only beautiful and with a sweet voice, but also exceptionally protective of him. This reminded Nan Wusi of another rumor about Xiao Yi.
A few years ago, Xiao Yi, in a fit of rage for a beautiful woman, got into a fight with another wealthy young man in a brothel because of a courtesan, and eventually managed to bring her into the Prince Yi's mansion.
That woman was also the only one who lived in the Prince's mansion and survived. This rumor must be referring to this Miss Yan.
"A beautiful woman as company?" Xiao Yi frowned. "You mean Qingcheng?"
"Heh, how intimately you address me." Nan Wusi felt even colder upon hearing Xiao Yi's form of address.
"Wu Si, you've misunderstood," Xiao Yi hurriedly explained.
"Don't call me Wusi, I don't deserve it. Your Highness, it would be better if you called me Miss Nan." Nan Wusi interrupted Xiao Yidi's explanation.
"Wu Si, she's just my subordinate. You've really misunderstood," Xiao Yi explained, frowning.
"Hehe, subordinate? The kind that warms the bed?" Nan Wusi blurted out in a moment of impulse.
"Nan Wusi! That's enough!" Xiao Yi was genuinely angry upon hearing this. He hadn't expected Nan Wusi to think of him in this way.
Namo Si remained silent.
"She really is just my subordinate. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do." Xiao Yi said before getting up and leaving.
Namo Si lay motionless on the bed, tears streaming down her face.
After leaving, Xiao Yi returned to the Prince's Mansion feeling somewhat annoyed, but more than that, he felt regret. He shouldn't have left like that.
"Xuan Li." Xiao Yi summoned Xuan Li and instructed him, "From now on, you will be in charge of brewing medicine. If there is nothing else, Qingcheng does not need to come to my place."
"Huh?" Xuan Li didn't know what had gotten into the prince again. He didn't know how to brew medicine. What on earth had Miss Yan done to offend the prince?
The next day, Ye Zi came in and was almost scared to death when she saw the bloodstains on Nan Wusi's bed.
"Miss, Miss!" Ye Zi hurriedly called out while shaking Nan Wusi.
"What's all this wailing and howling about?" Nan Wusi opened his eyes with difficulty and looked at Ye Zi.
"Miss, what did you do last night? Why is there so much blood? Are you injured?"
"Hmm." Nan Wusi responded indifferently; she didn't really want to bring up what happened last night.
"I'll go find the royal physician right away." Ye Zi turned and ran outside.
"No need, I've already applied the medicine," Nan Wusi stopped Ye Zi.
"Miss, shall we go out today?" Ye Zi asked.
"I'm not going out anymore, let's just leave it at that." Nan Wusi wasn't in the mood to deal with anything else, so he simply stayed in bed.
However, in the end, Ye Zi still kicked Nan Wusi off the bed. The bed was so dirty, covered in bloodstains, it definitely needed to be replaced.
While Ye Zi was changing the sheets, Nan Wusi sat at the table to the side, lost in thought.
After Ye Zi finished changing, she saw Nan Wusi sitting at the table, her clothes tattered and covered in blood, looking completely lost. She couldn't help but ask, "Miss, what happened to you? Tell me."
Nan Wusi simply shook his head.
"Miss, let me change your clothes." Ye Zi felt sorry for Nan Wusi looking like this.
"Go boil some water, I want to take a bath," Nan Wusi said expressionlessly.
"But Miss, you can't take a bath when you're injured," Ye Zi said with some concern. However, seeing Nan Wusi's indifferent expression, she knew that her persuasion would be useless.
After Ye Zi boiled the water, she helped Nan Wusi bathe. However, while undressing, she discovered the Mandarin Duck Blood Jade in Nan Wusi's arms. Just as Ye Zi was about to put it aside, Nan Wusi inexplicably stopped her.
Nan Wusi sat in the bathtub, staring blankly at the mandarin duck blood jade in her hand, recalling the bits and pieces of her acquaintance with Xiao Yi.
She was first attracted to Xiao Yi's appearance at the palace banquet, then started doing business selling small clothes with him, and then Xiao Yi presented her with an epiphyllum flower at her mother's birthday banquet. That was the first time she had witnessed the fleeting beauty of the epiphyllum flower.
Then came the embarrassing trip to the Red Maple Mountain Hot Springs. It was during that trip that Xiao Yi took half of the Mandarin Duck Blood Jade, and Nan Wusi still hasn't discovered its use.
Nanwu thought that he had asked Xiao Yi for help many times, and Xiao Yi had never refused. Moreover, it seemed that he owed Xiao Yi several favors. Xiao Yi had never mentioned the things he had promised to do for him.
Just before Nan Wusi was lost in her memories, she suddenly felt a pain in her shoulder, and a streak of blood quickly spread across her arm, reaching straight up to the blood jade.
"Miss, I'm so sorry, Ye Zi was too rough. Are you alright?" Ye Zi was so frightened that she quickly knelt down. She had accidentally reopened the young lady's wound.
However, Nan Wusi had no time to pay attention to Ye Zi, because she saw that the Blood Jade had absorbed the blood that flowed from her.
So, is the name "Mandarin Duck Blood Jade" not because of its color, but because it actually sucks blood?
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