But the thought of Lu Xiaoyun no longer being a part of his life, and his life returning to the uneventful and colorless days of the past, was heartbreaking.
He couldn't even imagine what he would do if he had to face a table full of bland and tasteless food all by himself every day.
During this time, he had gotten used to the two siblings chattering away, laughing and talking while eating, and even commenting on how well each dish was made.
Lu Xiaoyun was always like this, never picky about anything. Even with the terrible cooking skills of the chefs at the Prince An's mansion, she could still eat with relish.
It made him eat an extra bowl of rice.
He actually knew that her younger brother, Lu Yuyan, had been urging her these past few days to hurry up and learn to imitate his handwriting so that she could write a letter of divorce.
Once their bodies are switched back, she will leave with Ayan.
Zhu Yu slowly lowered his clenched hand, finally making up his mind.
Lu Xiaoyun and Lu Yuyan entered the study.
"Ayan, is there really no other way?"
Lu Yuyan shook his head helplessly: "Ten years is too long. Sister, let me take your pulse again."
Lu Xiaoyun stretched out her hand, and Lu Yuyan carefully took her pulse for a while before sighing and shaking his head. There was no other way but to find the Four-Colored Grass.
"I'll give you my blood. Take it back and study it with herbs. Don't rush. If it doesn't work the first time, try ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times. It will definitely work."
As she spoke, Lu Xiaoyun took a cup, cut her finger with a dagger, and blood immediately gushed out, filling the cup to about half full in no time.
"Sister! That's enough, that's enough." Lu Yuyan hurriedly bandaged Lu Xiaoyun's wound and said with a wry smile, "Actually, it's not very useful. Only the Four-Colored Grass can cure Zhu Yu's poison."
"Then I will send my secret guards to search all over the country. If we can't find it in the Great Zhou, we will go to the Northern Qi, the Southern Liang, and the Chen Kingdom. I don't believe that we can't find even a single Four-Colored Grass in the whole world."
Lu Xiaoyun paced anxiously in the study. "It can't be! It can't be that there isn't even a single four-colored herb in the whole world. There must be a way."
"Sister!" Lu Yuyan grabbed Lu Xiaoyun's arm.
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiaoyun stopped and looked at Lu Yuyan with a puzzled expression.
Lu Yuyan placed his hands on Lu Xiaoyun's shoulders, turned her body to face him, and looked directly into her eyes.
Lu Xiaoyun saw her own anxious reflection in Ayan's eyes. What was wrong with her? Wasn't this Zhu Yu's body?
She's been mesmerized by that kiss.
The kiss reminded Lu Xiaoyun of the subtle sensations, completely different from the kisses Zhang Hao had given her before.
Lu Xiaoyun couldn't remember what it was like then, but she had never felt her heart pounding like it had just now.
"Sister, that's Zhu Yu's body. What does it have to do with you? Once you two have switched bodies back, we'll leave this place and leave Zhu Yu. Whether Zhu Yu can have children or not has nothing to do with you or me."
"Moreover, the old emperor is Zhu Yu's biological father. Sister, have you ever thought about it? What kind of biological father in this world would harm his own son like this? There must be something we don't know about this. Sister, don't get involved. It's too dangerous."
"That's imperial power! We've watched enough TV dramas, haven't we? Let's not even talk about TV dramas; just look at the struggle for the throne among the nine princes in the Qing Dynasty. Apart from the final winner, Yongzheng, which of the other princes had a good ending?"
“Sister, we were both abandoned when we were little and grew up in an orphanage. We depended on each other for survival. This life of ours is stolen. I don’t want to travel through time to this place and make you take such a big risk because of strangers.”
He said emphatically, "He, Zhu Yu, isn't worth you doing this!"
Lu Xiaoyun grabbed Ayan's arm with her other hand: "But, Ayan, Zhu Yu, Zhu Yu is so pitiful."
"Pitiful? Ha, you think he's pitiful now? Have you forgotten how he treated the original owner? If you two hadn't swapped bodies, given Zhu Yu's character, even if you had transmigrated into the original owner's body, you would probably have died a hundred times over."
"Since you transmigrated here, has he ever been even slightly kind to you? Oh, just because he was almost beaten to death by Consort Duan these past two days, and you saved him, he's grateful to you and has developed a tiny bit of affection for you, and you've already lost yourself?"
"Sister, wake up!"
Lu Xiaoyun remained silent; there were some things she really couldn't tell Ayan.
“Sister, I have already told Zhu Yu how to detoxify him. If he is willing, he can do it himself. You don’t need to take this risk for him. What if the old emperor finds out?”
"The only thing we can do now is to switch your bodies back together and then get as far away from this dangerous individual as possible."
Lu Xiaoyun was silent for a moment, then nodded: "I understand."
Lu Yuyan sighed heavily and released Lu Xiaoyun: "Think about it carefully."
After Lu Yuyan left, Lu Xiaoyun sat alone in the study chair for a long time, lost in thought.
Ah Yan is right. They didn't belong here to begin with, and their involvement in Zhu Yu's affairs was purely accidental.
Zhu Yu's current predicament is all because his birth mother was a princess of the previous dynasty. Perhaps he is innocent, but isn't that also the reason why Zhu Yu survived?
After all, a prince without children, like Prince Rui, is destined to have no chance of the throne and is therefore out of danger.
Never mind, with her and Ayan around, their bodies will be switched back soon.
The sound of the night watchman's drum at midnight slowly reached my ears.
Lu Xiaoyun went outside, the darkness of the night pressing down on her heart.
"Your Highness, it's late, aren't you going to rest?" Jiang Chuan asked.
"Is the princess asleep?"
Jiang Chuan shook his head: "I don't know."
Lu Xiaoyun still went to Feixue Garden.
Apart from a few swaying streetlights, Feixue Garden was bathed in the cold, silvery moonlight that filtered through the bare branches of a few trees in the courtyard, casting menacing, mottled shadows on the ground.
It didn't seem like much during the day, but now it looks so desolate and bleak.
Lu Xiaoyun walked slowly to the door and gently knocked: "Are you asleep?"
Not a sound came from inside the room.
Hearing the commotion, Li Feng, who was in the next room, quickly dressed and came out. He was startled to see the prince standing in front of the princess's room. He glanced at the moon and saw that it was past midnight. He stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, the princess has already gone to sleep."
Lu Xiaoyun nodded lightly: "Go to sleep, don't worry about me."
After saying that, he pushed open the door and went inside.
Li Feng felt that the prince and princess seemed strange today. They had dinner together just the night before, so were they having another argument?
Is it because the prince has realized his mistake that he came to apologize to the princess so late at night?
Well, how could a young girl like her understand matters between husband and wife? Seeing the prince enter the room, she returned to her own room.
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