King Xiao was satisfied and extended his hand for Su Liluo to examine him.
"Men and women must be kept separate. Someone, bring me a silk thread."
Su Liluo glanced at Xiao Wang's wrist with disdain; she really didn't want to touch this kind of man.
"Can the Crown Princess receive medical treatment through a thread?"
King Xiao noticed the disdain in Su Liluo's eyes and immediately retorted sarcastically.
"It's just pulse diagnosis, nothing serious."
Su Lilu smiled.
A short while later, Su Liluo pretended to take Xiao Wang's pulse.
"Well, can this poison be cured?"
Seeing that Su Lilu remained silent, King Xiao urged her impatiently.
He felt in his heart that Su Liluo must have the antidote. This pulse-taking was just for show. After acting for so long, it was time to give him the antidote!
"Oh dear, Prince Xiao's poison is truly bizarre! I seem to be..."
"So what?"
Seeing Su Liluo's furrowed brows, King Xiao anxiously pressed for an answer.
"We were also at a loss."
Su Liluo spread her hands, as if she had done her best.
Xiao Ye, who was standing next to her, twitched his lips and stepped forward to pull Su Liluo's hand back.
She said softly, "Madam, you've worked hard. Since you can't do anything about it, then so be it. Anyway, you've already put aside past grievances and examined Prince Xiao."
"Impossible! You're the one who poisoned me! I was in contact with both of you that day, Your Highness! You must bring out the antidote right now!"
Xiao Wang became an instant sensation.
“Prince Xiao, everything must be based on evidence. If you continue to falsely accuse my Crown Princess like this, I don’t mind going to the Emperor and accusing you of false accusation!”
Xiao Ye gave Xiao Wang a cold look.
King Xiao calmed down slightly, but then his body started to itch intensely again. He couldn't bear it and reached out to scratch.
Su Liluo couldn't help herself and hid in Xiao Ye's arms, turning her head to chuckle for a while.
Prince Xiao caused a scene at the Crown Prince's residence for quite a while, but in the end he got nothing and could only return home dejectedly.
Over the next few days, King Xiao summoned numerous doctors to his residence, and some of their medicines alleviated his itching.
However, due to the excessive scratching he had done in the previous days, faint scars were still left on his face.
It took about three days for King Xiao's itching to completely disappear.
At this moment, King Xiao looked at himself in the bronze mirror, his eyes filled with gloom.
A faint scar was visible on his cheek. Although the doctor said the scar could be healed, it would take at least six months.
That means he'll have to go out with a scarred face for the next six months.
"Your Highness, actually this servant has... a way."
Seeing the king's sinister expression, one of his servants cautiously spoke.
Tell me about it.
"That's what King Xiao said in a cold voice."
"Your Highness, you can put some face powder on your face. I've heard that face powder can make a person's skin whiter and cover up blemishes. Just like many young ladies who occasionally get a few pimples, they all rely on face powder to cover them up."
"You mean you want me to wear makeup like a woman?"
King Xiao was immediately angered.
How could a man behave like a woman?
King Xiao felt that his dignity had been insulted.
The servant trembled and immediately knelt on the ground.
"Your Highness, this...this is indeed the only way to conceal the blemishes and scars on Your Highness's face at present. As long as we don't say anything, no one will know!"
King Xiao's eyes were sinister. He silently looked in the mirror for a while before finally responding slowly, "Call someone who knows how to do makeup."
A short while later, the servant called over a maid and applied some cosmetics to Prince Xiao's face.
Looking at his fair skin in the mirror, King Xiao's previously gloomy mood improved considerably.
"Your Highness, you have a letter."
At this moment, a servant came in through the door and handed a brownish-yellow envelope to King Xiao.
When Prince Xiao opened the package, he frowned and immediately said, "Prepare the sedan chair; I am leaving the palace."
*
"Father, do you think Prince Xiao will really listen to us?"
Not far from the gate of the Xiao Prince's Mansion, Chu Yan's second brother, Chu Cilin, and their father stood there, looking at the magnificent Xiao Prince's Mansion with some hesitation.
Since the incident that Xiao Wang caused in the West Alley, the Chu family has also secretly investigated the matter and discovered that the woman in the West Alley was Chu Yun.
They were furious about this, but they could also sense that King Xiao had special feelings for Chu Yun.
They dared not act rashly, for fear of provoking someone and harming Chu Yan.
Therefore, they decided to negotiate with King Xiao by offering some benefits, hoping to get Chu Yun from him and marry her off to the son of one of their stewards.
In this way, the lingering connection between King Xiao and Chu Yun was finally severed.
"Whether he listens or not, let's talk to him first. If he's unwilling, we'll think of another way."
We can't let his daughter keep suffering this injustice.
Father Chu sighed.
If he had known that Prince Xiao was this kind of person, he would never have agreed to marry his daughter to him back then.
Previously, Prince Xiao was an unfavored prince. At that time, the Chu family was favored by the emperor, which is why Prince Xiao took the initiative to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage.
If they hadn't wanted to at the time, given how much the Emperor valued the Chu family back then, he wouldn't have made things difficult for them for the sake of a prince who had little presence in the public eye.
But saying all this now is pointless; all they can do now is try to do as much as they can for Chu Yan.
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