Shen Hanshan turned to enter the palace, but was stopped by Lanru.
“My lord, the princess needs to rest and should not be disturbed,” Feng Hong said firmly.
Normally, Shen Hanshan would have already barged in.
But today's situation is different. He is hesitant to act rashly, fearing that if he goes in, he might say something wrong that could upset the princess and worsen her condition.
After much deliberation, he had no choice but to turn around and leave.
Not long after Shen Hanshan left, Zhao Zhi slowly woke up.
She touched the spot on her shoulder blade and said with lingering fear, "Luckily, it was off-target, it hurt so much."
Lanru slowly fed her a bowl of minced meat porridge, then scolded her, "Your Highness, you're strong and healthy, you'll recover quickly from a prick. But you're carrying two children, how can you be so careless about your own and your children's lives!"
Hearing this, Nanxing muttered to herself, "Look at what Aunt Lanru is saying. My prince is strong and healthy, but he's still human. Getting pricked hurts him too. Besides, judging from what the prince said to the imperial physician just now, if Your Highness hadn't pushed him, the prince might have been seriously injured!"
Ultimately, she came to realize a fact: "Indeed, whoever's master it is, that's who they love most."
Zhao Zhi knew she was in the wrong. Like a child who had made a mistake, she lowered her head and stammered, "I... at that time, it was just an instinctive reaction; I didn't want him to get hurt..."
Feng Hong secretly shed tears and choked out, "Your Highness, the Empress Dowager has entrusted you to me and Sister Lanru. If anything happens to you, we will have no face to meet the Empress Dowager in the afterlife!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Zhi felt even more guilty. She promised, "I will never act so recklessly and disregard the consequences again! Don't worry, Aunts, I won't make you worry anymore."
Because of the location of her wound, Zhao Zhi dressed in whatever was loose and comfortable.
Since no other men would come to the courtyard with Fengyi, after changing her dressing, she was only wearing a lotus-colored embroidered bodice underneath and a scarlet soft gauze robe on top.
After becoming pregnant, Zhao Zhi's body gradually became rounder, but she gained weight in the right places while remaining slim in the rest of her body.
Zhao Zhi felt that the pain in her wound had subsided, so she got out of bed and slowly walked to her desk, preparing to read the military books she hadn't finished reading the day before.
As she moved, the spring-like colors beneath her gauze dress swayed back and forth, almost bursting forth.
It was at this time that Shen Hanshan entered.
His movements were so subtle that even Lanru and Fenghong didn't notice.
Nanxing saw it, but she pretended not to.
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