Su Xuerong looked up and saw the tall, slender figure standing at the door. She immediately felt relieved and smiled at him, saying, "Your Highness is alright, I don't feel anything is wrong..."
Just as she was about to get up and walk towards Xiao Yuan, her legs suddenly gave way and she fell downwards!
A series of gasps immediately rang in her ears. She was instantly caught by a pair of large hands, but then she was plunged into darkness...
"Young lady?"
After an unknown amount of time, Su Xuerong suddenly heard a voice.
She struggled to open her eyes in the darkness, only to see a face that was both strange and familiar.
Su Xuerong blinked and realized that she was lying in a cave.
She immediately sat up and looked around in astonishment.
Suddenly remembering something, she immediately looked at the dress she was wearing.
He wore a coarse cloth short-sleeved shirt and trousers, with only a plain gray cloth skirt over it.
She was startled, and couldn't help but reach up and touch her head—
The twin buns in her hair clearly told her that she had returned to three years ago!
Su Xuerong didn't know whether to be surprised or delighted.
Does this mean she won't have to marry that bastard Xiao Shiyan?
But will everything she experienced in Hangzhou vanish into nothingness?
Thinking of this, Su Xuerong suddenly felt a strange sense of melancholy.
Does this mean that she will never see him again at some point in the future?
Without her engagement to Xiao Shiyan, she wouldn't have pursued Lin Jinyu three years later, nor would she have met him on that road...
Suddenly, I felt a sense of emptiness, as if a cold wind had blown into my heart, making me feel indescribably uncomfortable.
"Young lady?"
The man in front of her called her name again.
Su Xuerong snapped out of her thoughts and looked at the person in front of her.
This man had an extremely ordinary face; he was the kind of person who wouldn't stand out in a crowd.
"You just fainted, are you alright?" The man asked with concern, handing over a bamboo tube. "Take a sip first."
Su Xuerong took the bamboo tube, drank two mouthfuls, and then looked at his injured leg.
She rescued this person by chance a few days ago when she went up the mountain.
At that time, he had suffered a knife wound to his right leg and collapsed unconscious by a pool in the mountains.
Su Xuerong went to great lengths to revive him, and then half-dragged, half-pulled him into the cave.
Today she went up the mountain to bring him some dry food and herbs, but then she inexplicably fainted.
Su Xuerong drank a few mouthfuls of spring water, but her head was still a little dizzy.
She looked at the familiar cave and the man who had shown her kindness, but wondered if she was truly herself at that moment.
Could it be that Zeng Ling stabbed her with a poisoned hairpin at Xiao Yuan's villa and she died?
So, did fate send her back to the time three years ago when she was still unmarried?
Su Xuerong reached out and touched her cheek, feeling a strange sensation that was hard to describe.
In a bedroom of a villa in Hangzhou, Su Xuerong lay on the bed with her eyes closed, her face calm but lifeless.
After the physician from the Cheng family took her pulse, he cautiously said to the man beside him, whose face had been dark and gloomy, "Your Highness, although we do not know what kind of strange poison is on the lady's body, based on my observations over the past few days, this poison will not be immediately fatal, but will instead cause the lady to fall into a coma."
"If the old master of Medicine King Manor were to intervene, he should be able to cure this poison," he added.
Xiao Yuan's gaze remained fixed on the woman on the bed, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Any news from Medicine King Manor?"
The physician hesitated for a moment: "Not yet."
He wanted to say that even traveling at full speed from Hangzhou to Yaowangzhuang would take at least half a month, and even without delays, it would take a month for a round trip.
Lady Su has only been poisoned for five days; even a deity couldn't fly over there.
But he didn't dare say it directly.
These past few days, the prince has been unusually irritable and has handed over all matters in the palace to others, while he himself has moved to a separate courtyard to take care of Lady Su day and night.
Suddenly, Ming Shu's voice came from outside the door: "Master, Mr. Ling has arrived."
Xiao Yuan's face darkened, and he said, "Tell him to get lost!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than footsteps were heard entering.
Ling Qingxue completely ignored Xiao Yuan's dark face and strode to the bedside.
When he saw Su Xuerong's bloodless face, it felt as if a piece of his heart had been ripped out, and he was in so much pain that he couldn't breathe.
“Ah Rong…”
Just as he was about to reach out, an arm suddenly shot out from the side and shoved him backward hard.
Xiao Yuan shouted sternly, "Ming Shu!"
Akira rushed over.
"Drag him out!"
Ling Qingxue steadied herself, staring angrily at Xiao Yuan: "Your Highness, is this how you take care of Arong while I'm not in Hangzhou?"
He never expected that Xiao Yuan would take advantage of his trip to Shu to turn A Rong into his own!
Xiao Yuan sneered: "What right do you have to question me? Before you went to Shu, didn't you already exchange betrothal gifts and arrange a marriage with someone else?"
"Now that you're engaged to someone else, do you still want to take Arong for yourself?"
Ling Qingxue choked on her words.
At that time, he was forced into a corner by his mother and had no choice but to temporarily agree to this delaying tactic.
He planned to wait until he returned to Hangzhou before trying to persuade his mother to let him marry Arong.
But unexpectedly, when he was in Shu, the King of Chu took a fancy to him and insisted on marrying Li Feiyi to him.
Thinking of this, he stared intently at Xiao Yuan: "Your Highness, the Prince of Chu clearly wanted to form a marriage alliance with you, so why are you making me marry Li Feiyi?"
Xiao Yuan sneered: "If Lady Li doesn't want to be a concubine, then naturally she'll marry you!"
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