Moonlight streamed through the windowpanes into the room. In the darkness, Zhu Yu lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, his eyes wide open, as if he had lost all vitality.
Lu Xiaoyun lifted the bed curtain, sat down next to Zhu Yu, and took his hand.
Zhu Yu's hands were ice-cold.
"You've always known that Consort Duan was a princess from the previous dynasty, haven't you?"
Zhu Yu's body trembled, and he slowly turned his head to look at Lu Xiaoyun: "You, you know?" His voice was extremely hoarse.
Lu Xiaoyun nodded: "It was the Empress Dowager who told me the whole story this afternoon."
Zhu Yu's eyes brightened. She, she said, was the Empress Dowager.
But then he became frustrated. What could he do? What reason did he have to keep her now?
Zhu Yu closed his eyes and swallowed the bitterness in his mouth: "Isn't it ridiculous? Don't you think I'm pathetic?"
In the darkness, Lu Xiaoyun quietly looked at Zhu Yu, wanting to say how could this be laughable.
Zhu Yu chuckled helplessly and pulled his hand out of Lu Xiaoyun's: "Lu Xiaoyun, they say that every pitiful person has something hateful about them, and I am that hateful person."
"I deserve it. I didn't distinguish right from wrong, I was arrogant and caused the death of the original owner, Lu Xiaoyun. You're right, even God couldn't stand it anymore, so He made me taste what it's like to be misunderstood, insulted, and abused."
“Zhu Yu, how can you blame yourself? You can’t choose your birth. Even Consort Duan may not know that she was a princess of the previous dynasty.”
Even the old emperor couldn't be said to be wrong for doing this.
Everyone has a different perspective, so how can we say who is right and who is wrong? And it's not Zhu Yu's fault at all.
Zhu Yu chuckled bitterly twice: "My mother knew all along. Otherwise, why would she treat me like this? The more strained my relationship with her becomes, the more at ease my father will feel about me. But even so, my father still poisoned me like this."
Lu Xiaoyun was taken aback. It turned out that Consort Duan already knew about it, but the Emperor and Empress Dowager were unaware of it. The Empress Dowager even told her not to reveal the matter to Consort Duan.
They don't understand Zhu Yu's mother at all.
Remembering the large boxes in the study, Lu Xiaoyun hurriedly asked, "Are you saying that Consort Duan did this on purpose?"
Zhu Yu nodded: "Otherwise, Father Emperor would probably have taken my life long ago. Five years ago, I was granted the title of Prince and established my own residence. My mother had a trusted palace maid hand over all her properties to me. Later, I discovered that my mother had already been gradually transferring her properties during my first year of military service."
“It’s difficult to gradually transfer the vast Bi family business to only six or seven unprofitable shops. Therefore, I have never blamed my mother.”
Just as Lu Xiaoyun had predicted.
"Was that palace maid Zhang Mama?"
Xi Yi went to investigate Zhang Mama's background and hasn't returned yet.
Zhu Yu shook his head: "Zhang Mama is not one of my mother's people."
Lu Xiaoyun nodded, then, remembering that he might not be able to see in the dark, softly hummed in agreement.
The night grew deeper.
Zhu Yu said, "You can go back now, I'm going to sleep."
Lu Xiaoyun kicked off her shoes and got into bed: "It's too late, I'll sleep here tonight."
Zhu Yu: "..." "Go back to the front yard."
In the darkness, Lu Xiaoyun turned to look at Zhu Yu: "Don't you want to switch back to your body?"
"What?" Zhu Yu turned his head and looked at the tall woman in the darkness.
Lu Xiaoyun turned him around so that he could also turn to the side, and the two of them faced each other, their breaths brushing against each other's necks and faces.
"Didn't you say that if we live separately for a long time, people will start gossiping behind our backs and our scores will skyrocket to 100,000? Those two old women who were beaten are still crying out in pain."
Zhu Yu: "..."
"We can't let others get beaten up for nothing."
Zhu Yu: "..."
"Go to sleep, it's getting late."
Zhu Yu slept very poorly that night, and even Lu Xiaoyun didn't get much sleep.
She pulled Zhu Yu's small, thin body into her arms.
His body was also ice-cold.
Lu Xiaoyun, now in his male form, felt as warm as a furnace.
The next day, Feng Yan, who had been spitting blood after being struck by Wu Chuan's palm, also woke up.
With only four days left until the Lunar New Year, the old emperor granted a holiday and did not resume morning court until after the Lantern Festival the following year.
Every other day, Lu Xiaoyun would still accompany Lu Yuyan to the palace to perform acupuncture for the Empress Dowager.
Lu Yuyan's medical skills were exceptional. By the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yu was able to take a few small steps with Li Feng's help.
The injuries on my body are gradually healing, but my severely damaged spleen and cold symptoms can only be slowly restored.
Feng Yan recovered quickly, and with the help of good medicine, by the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, he was almost back to normal except for not being able to use his internal energy.
Since moving into the Prince An's mansion, Lu Yuyan has found that he hasn't had a single day of peace and quiet.
They are busier than when they were attending physicians in modern times.
Either Zhu Yu and Feng Yan were beaten half to death by Consort Duan, or Wu Chuan, who never learned his lesson, was whipped thirty times and then had to prepare medicine to treat his injuries.
Later, Xi Yi brought back a seriously injured maid to his residence, who was also to give the Empress Dowager acupuncture.
This Prince An's mansion is truly not a place for humans to stay.
As life at the Prince An's residence gradually returned to normal, Zhu Yu's points on his wrist slowly decreased, and now he only had whole points left.
Zhu Yu smiled bitterly as he watched the scores slowly decrease. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before their bodies could be swapped back.
Lu Xiaoyun will leave him.
After that day, no one mentioned Zhu Yu's poisoning.
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