"Xiao Yi, why are you here so early?" Nan Wusi called out as soon as he entered the door.
"Ahem." Before Xiao Yi could reply, Jiang Zhirou coughed twice. "I said, Wusi, they say that once a daughter is married, she's like water spilled from a cup. You're still not out there yet."
"Mother!" Nan Wusi blushed with embarrassment. "Please stop teasing me."
Jiang Zhirou looked Nan Wusi over and noticed that although her daughter wasn't wearing much makeup, it was clear that her clothes and jewelry had been carefully chosen, showing that she had put a lot of thought into it.
Jiang Zhirou knew that young women were easily embarrassed, so she stopped joking.
"Alright, sit down and have breakfast first." Jiang Zhirou patted the seat next to her.
Nan Wusi originally intended to sit next to Xiao Yi, but now he could only obediently sit next to Jiang Zhirou.
Nan Wusi was quiet throughout the breakfast, as she had little to do. It was Jiang Zhirou who was asking Xiao Yi all sorts of questions, much like a mother-in-law interrogating her son-in-law.
Nan Wusi didn't dare to interrupt and could only quietly eat his breakfast.
Xiao Yi answered Jiang Zhirou's various questions fluently, showing no sign of panic. His composure impressed Jiang Zhirou, who nodded frequently in satisfaction.
After Jiang Zhirou's interrogation, she also felt that Xiao Yi was not the ignorant and womanizing person she had heard about. On the contrary, he was quite talented and ambitious.
However, Jiang Zhirou had a new worry. She knew that Xiao Yi was bound to rebel, and if he failed, he would die. But if he succeeded, he would definitely become the emperor. Wouldn't her precious daughter be trapped in this deep palace?
That was the fate Jiang Zhirou once wanted to escape, and in the end she succeeded, but the price she paid was to spend her life with her husband in this barren border region.
She doesn't know what Nan Wusi is thinking yet, and plans to find time to talk to her daughter properly so that she can be mentally prepared.
After breakfast, Nan Wusi led Xiao Yi to the room prepared by Jiang Zhirou and dismissed all the servants. The origin of her medicine was unknown, so she couldn't let others discover anything unusual.
"Xiao Yi, take this medicine." Nan Wusi took the pill directly from the system.
"That's it?" Xiao Yi reached out and took the pill, swallowing it directly.
“Yeah, what else?” Nan Wusi asked, tilting his head.
"You seemed so secretive; I thought there would be some complicated steps involved," Xiao Yi chuckled.
“Well, if we were to put on a show for others, then of course we would have to put on a performance, but since it’s just the two of us here, there’s no need for that,” Nan Wusi said with a smile.
"How long will it take for the medicine to take effect after I've taken it?" Xiao Yi asked, as he seemed to feel nothing at all.
"I don't know either." Nan Wusi scratched her head. Xiao Ba only told her to swallow it, and didn't say anything else. There was no instruction manual for the pill either, so she didn't know anything about it.
"Are you sure this medicine is effective?" Xiao Yi asked, puzzled. If Nan Wusi knew nothing, how could she be sure of its effectiveness?
"Of course, this medicine is definitely effective." Nan Wusi was confident in the medicine's efficacy, after all, it was produced by the system, so its quality was guaranteed.
"Sisi, this medicine of yours..." Before Xiao Yi could finish speaking, he cried out, covered his eyes, and looked extremely pained.
"Xiao Yi, what's wrong?" Nan Wusi immediately rushed forward to check on him in a panic.
"Sisi, my eyes hurt so much." Xiao Yi knelt on the ground, covering his eyes with both hands, pinching a bloody mark on his face.
"Xiao Ba, Xiao Ba, what's going on?" Nan Wusi quickly called out to Xiao Ba in her mind. She didn't know this phenomenon would occur.
“Host, I guess this is the medicine starting to work. It should be an adverse reaction caused by clearing the toxins from Xiao Yi’s eyes.” Xiao Ba was also a little unsure, but she made a reasonable guess based on the current situation.
"Is there any way to alleviate his pain?" Nan Wusi felt very distressed seeing Xiao Yi in such pain.
"I don't know either." Xiao Ba's tone was somewhat helpless. Although she was a system, she was not omnipotent and did not know everything.
After hearing this, Nan Wusi stopped asking questions. She held Xiao Yi's hands to stop him from hurting himself, and then helped him sit up on the bed.
"Xiao Yi, how are you feeling right now?" Nan Wusi asked softly.
"Sisi, I feel like my eyes are being burned by fire, it hurts so much." Xiao Yi's eyes were tightly closed and his brows were furrowed.
"Burned by raging fire?" Nan Wusi didn't expect such a violent reaction. "I've got it."
Nan Wusi suddenly remembered that he could exchange for eye masks in his system. These things are cool and refreshing and can replace ice cubes. He wondered if applying them to his eyes could relieve some of the pain.
Namo thought for a moment and then redeemed the eye mask from the system.
Because Nan Wusi was too impatient, he couldn't open the packaging for a while. In the end, it took him quite a bit of effort to clumsily tear open the packaging of the eye mask.
"Xiao Yi, let me put something on your eyes. Try it and see if it makes you feel better." With that, Nan Wusi placed the eye mask on Xiao Yi's eyelids.
After feeling the coolness of his eyelids, Xiao Yi seemed to experience some relief from the pain, so he said, "Sisi, I feel like it doesn't hurt as much now."
"That's good." Nan Wusi breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it worked, that was good.
However, the effect of the eye mask did not last long; it dried out after a while, and then Xiao Yi's eyes started to hurt again.
Helpless, Nan Wusi could only let Xiao Yi lie properly in bed, and she would apply a new eye mask to Xiao Yi every now and then.
Perhaps because the medicine was too strong, an eye mask usually takes at least 15 minutes to dry, but now when it was applied to Xiao Yi's eyes, it had no effect in less than 15 minutes.
And so, Nan Wusi didn't know how many eye masks she had applied to Xiao Yi. She only felt that a long time had passed, and Xiao Yi's eyes gradually stopped hurting.
After some time, Nan Wusi discovered that Xiao Yi had fallen asleep.
"Phew." Nan Wusi breathed a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected that changing an eye mask would be such a physically demanding task.
Looking at Xiao Yi's sleeping face, Nan Wusi also felt a little sleepy. She hadn't slept much last night and had gotten up early this morning, so she was also a little exhausted. So she lay down next to Xiao Yi's bed and fell asleep as well.
Time flew by, and after about two hours, Xiao Yi woke up. He opened his eyes, but was not used to the bright light, so he closed them again after only a moment.
Then he tried to slowly open his eyes, and what he saw was a dark blue bed curtain.
"I can see!" Xiao Yi was shocked; he could actually see!
Xiao Yi felt like he was dreaming. Even when Sisi told him that she could cure his eyes, he didn't really have any hope. But he never expected that it would actually be true!
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