Chapter 27 Chapter 27 Capture Prince Yin and bleed him too! ...
"Your Highness, please stop! Don't let go! This woman is dying!"
Seeing Hanyu gradually stop struggling and her face as pale as a corpse, the woman was so scared that she quickly ordered someone to stop.
The man immediately pressed the wound on Hanyu's wrist with his hand, and a doctor came to bandage her and apply medicine.
He held up the bowl in his hand and presented it to the woman. "Your Highness, I've released a bowl of blood. I don't know if it's enough, but this is her limit. If you need more, you'll have to wait at least seven days."
"What? Seven days? No! That's too long."
"If she were a strong man, she would have recovered her vitality in three to five days. But she is a frail woman after all. She lost so much blood in a short time. If she doesn't replenish it properly, I'm afraid she won't last more than seven days. Your Highness, for the sake of our great cause, please be patient and wait for a few days!"
In the next few days, Hanyu was finally arranged into a room with a bed, and a young maid was assigned to take care of her daily life.
The blindfold on Hanyu's head was also taken off. The blood that had seeped out of the white gauze cloth wrapped around her left wrist had already formed a scab. She moved her wrist slightly, and the pain of her skin being torn came again.
The maid hurriedly stopped her, "Don't touch the wound! The doctor worked so hard to stop the bleeding and applied some medicine, but the wound isn't healed yet. What if you move around and it bleeds again?"
As the maid approached her, Hanyu quickly grabbed her hand and demanded, "Then tell me where this place is? Who is your prince? And why did he want to harm me?"
"I don't know, let go!"
"I won't let you go unless you tell me!"
"I'm just following orders. How can we servants know about our master's affairs?"
"Then you should know where this place is? Who your master is, right?"
The maid had no choice but to kneel down and beg her, "Please forgive me, young lady! If I reveal even a word to you, my family of five will be doomed!"
Out of tenderness, Hanyu finally let her go. She smiled bitterly to herself and said, "Your life and your family's life are life, but then my life is not life?"
"Your master is still trying to make me bleed, isn't she? Well, I won't let her succeed!"
In anger, Hanyu untied the gauze bandaging the wound. The knife cut on her wrist was bloody and horrifying to look at. She took a deep breath and hardened her heart to tear off the blood scab that had finally solidified on it.
After the blood scab was torn off, the wound on her wrist began to bleed again. The blood flowed down her arm onto the bed, staining her clothes and bedding red.
The maid was panicked and tried to wrap the gauze back while calling for help.
Several doctors carrying medicine boxes rushed over to treat her wounds.
"How could you do that? The cut is so deep that it exposes the bones. I spent the whole night trying to stop the bleeding. How can you tear open the scab before the wound has healed? Don't you want to live?"
The doctor's words made Hanyu smile bitterly. She asked them, "Do I still have the final say over my own life? Isn't it up to you to decide whether I live or die?"
"This girl must have been traumatized and is not in her right mind. Report to His Highness immediately and ask if she needs to be kept under strict supervision to prevent her from attempting suicide again."
"I'm not crazy!" Han Yu forcefully kicked away the old doctors surrounding her and roared, "Let your princess come to see me! What? Does she know that what she did was against the will of heaven and earth, so she is too ashamed to face others?"
The maid rushed forward and covered her mouth in panic: "Young lady, if you still want to live, don't say such things. If you behave yourself and follow His Highness's instructions, you may still have a chance of survival."
Perhaps the noise in the room was too loud, alarming the hostess of the mansion. This time, she showed up without fear. Hanyu's commotion finally allowed her to see the true face of the "highness".
"Who said I have no face to see anyone?"
A woman dressed in a deep, gold-woven, dark brocade gown strode in. Her wide, curving skirts spread out like layers of thick night, her collar and cuffs emblazoned with fierce Kuilong figures. Around her waist, she wore a wide leather belt inlaid with red gold and jade, from which dangled a set of exquisitely carved mutton-fat white jade pendants shaped like axes and scepters. Her steps shone with a clear, yet unmistakable, weight.
Her bun was as tall as a majestic palace, and she wore a golden phoenix hairpin with intricate kingfisher feathers. The phoenix held a huge oriental pearl in its mouth, which hung down in front of her forehead. The pearl's luster set off her extremely handsome long eyebrows and thin lips painted with cinnabar.
Her eyes were calm and sharp, and she looked at Hanyu as if she was looking at a toy, and her whole body exuded an aura that did not tolerate disobedience.
When everyone inside and outside the house saw her coming, they all knelt down and saluted.
"Greetings, Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
"Everyone, get up! I know you guys can't handle her. Except for the three imperial doctors, everyone else, please leave!"
"promise!"
Hanyu recalled that day when she heard from Xin Da in the dungeon of the palace that there was a princess in the Central Plains Dynasty who was powerful and on par with the regent. She was also the "aunt" mentioned by Yin Jinglong. Could she be the one in front of her?
Han Yu asked tentatively, "Princess Chaoyang, have you ever considered that if your nephew, the regent, knew about your imprisonment, I wonder what unnecessary disputes and misunderstandings would arise!"
Sure enough, she did not deny her identity, which further verified her guess.
Princess Chaoyang sneered and clapped her hands. "As expected of someone he favors, you're truly clever. It's a pity you've fallen into my hands. Even a Daluo Immortal would have difficulty rescuing you. Your Majesty is also my nephew, so he still has to listen to me. Does the Regent, who is also my nephew, really want to disobey his elders? Even if he insists on opposing me, it depends on whether the royal family members stand on his side or mine!"
"A person will be admired by everyone only if he has something respectable about him. If you rely on power to force others to submit, one day you will be pursued by the souls of those who died tragically at the hands of that power!"
"How dare you curse me to death? Do you think I dare not kill you?"
Hanyu knew very well that his life was not in his own hands. He was going to die anyway, so it was not so scary at the moment.
"Princess, it's not difficult to kill me, but at least not now. Otherwise, you wouldn't have spared my life when you cut my wrist to draw blood yesterday. I think we can perhaps reach a deal that won't cost you anything. Princess, please tell me, what exactly do you want from my blood?"
"Humph! Just you? Are you worthy enough to trade with me?"
Princess Chaoyang looked up to the sky and laughed at her innocence, thinking that only a dying person would come up with such absurd ideas.
To her, Min Hanyu was just a fish on the chopping board, at the mercy of others. What she wanted was the blood of the Snow Mountain Tomb Keepers. Even if Hanyu died, she could still capture hundreds or thousands of tomb keepers like her.
"I never make deals with anyone, so don't expect anyone to come and save you. The moment you left Prince Yin's mansion, Yin Jinglong abandoned you like a piece of trash. He didn't care whether you lived or died. You, just stay in my mansion and work for me! You should be thankful that you are still of some use to me. Even if you die in the future, you can leave behind a dignified body."
Hanyu secretly cursed her for her insidiousness and cruelty. It turned out that none of the people in the Central Plains were good people, except her A Jiang.
She clearly didn't expect Yin Jinglong to come and save her, but why did she still feel aggrieved and lost after hearing what Princess Chao Yang said?
Han Yu looked down at the red spider mark on his chest and murmured softly, "It must be the Heart-Eating Gu's doing. Otherwise, how could I possibly expect someone who once hurt me to save me?"
"What are you mumbling about?"
"Nothing? Princess, are you serious about what you just said? Yin Jinglong is indeed a heartless villain! I even saved his life in the basement of the temple! My kindness was wasted."
Princess Chaoyang suddenly asked, "What did you say? Did Yin Jinglong also go to the Snow Mountain Goddess's temple? Isn't it said that people who are not members of the Tomb Guarding Clan cannot approach the statue? Then how could he have returned unscathed after going to the temple?"
Seeing her curiosity, Han Yu seemed to have grasped a lifeline and deliberately kept her hanging. "Yes! I've also been wondering what kind of ability he has to be unaffected by the statue. If I want to know the reason, perhaps I should capture him and bleed him. Then, comparing my blood with his, wouldn't that make everything clear?"
"You asked me to slit his wrists and let him bleed? Just to verify a piece of news that you don't know if it's true or not? Do you take me for a fool?"
"How else do you think he got the statue? If I say anything false, I will be struck by lightning. Believe it or not, Princess."
The wound on Hanyu's hand was bandaged by the old doctors.
The men breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the wound is better than yesterday, and the bleeding has stopped."
"Since Princess needs my blood, you certainly don't want me to die so soon, right? Now that I'm in your hands, I know I can't survive, but there are countless ways to die. If Princess still wants to take my blood, then you have no choice but to make a deal with me."
Hanyu wanted to remove the gauze again, but was stopped by the old doctors: "Oh, no! No matter how good the golden wound medicine is, it can't withstand your tossing and turning!"
"You dare to threaten me?"
"That's right, I did threaten you. So what? I, Min Hanyu, am worthless and should have died the day I was born. I'm lucky enough to be adopted by my father and live to this day. Having experienced life and death before, I've already put life and death aside. Now I'm just asking for a reasonable death."
Princess Chaoyang was so angry about the death that she had no way to deal with this stubborn girl. She had to agree to her request for the time being and agree to make a deal with her.
"Tell me! What do you want from me?"
Hanyu smiled smugly. Guan Guan put away his injured wrist and questioned her, "I want the truth. Why did you arrest me and bring me into the mansion? And why did you take my blood?"
Princess Chaoyang hesitated for a moment, then she asked everyone else to leave and talked to him alone.
"Do you know how to activate the power of the statue to control people's hearts?"
"What idol?"
Han Yu wondered, hadn't Yin Jinglong's subordinates blown the goddess's statue into pieces and taken it back to the palace? So...she wanted the statue too?
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