Chapter 27 (The last part, "纳云禧," appears to be a fragment and doesn't translate directly. It's likely a mistake or incomplete sentence.)
"Dao Yi!" Xiao Shenjing's heart trembled, and he instantly flew into a rage.
The sudden loud noise startled Sun Bin, causing him to stop moving and instinctively look out of the cell.
Before he could even see anything clearly, he was lifted up, and a cold, long sword was pressed against his throat.
Just as he was about to be beheaded, he heard a chilling voice from above: "Spare his dog's life."
Then, his head was stomped heavily on the ground.
"Yunxi!" Xiao Shenjing rushed to the edge of the weeds and picked her up. "Yunxi, how are you?"
He was tense all over, his eyes were frighteningly cold, and he reached out, instinctively touching her neck.
It was as if they wanted to see if she was still alive.
Yunxi shuddered, her body shrank, and she screamed "No!"
She suddenly bit his hand fiercely, like a wolf cub.
Xiao Shenjing winced in pain and instinctively tried to shake her off.
But when he saw her swollen cheek with five finger marks, he stopped abruptly.
Gradually, Yunxi lost her strength.
As her body slipped, Xiao Shenjing endured the pain and caught her.
Yunxi was so weak that she was trembling all over, but she still refused to give in.
The moment Xiao Shenjing touched her, she struggled frantically, as if she had gone mad, yelling, "Don't touch me, get out! I'll kill you!"
Her hands were tied behind her back, she trembled all over, and her eyes were bloodshot. "I'm going to kill you!"
Xiao Shenjing clenched his fists tightly at his sides and stared at Sun Bin on the ground.
The killing intent in that single glance was palpable.
Both Dao Yi and Dao Er shuddered at the sight.
Yunxi seemed to be trapped in a nightmare. She struggled desperately to pull her hands out from behind her back and try to resist.
Even with a high fever and despair, she knew that only she could save herself.
But no matter how she struggled, she couldn't break free.
Seeing her wrists cut by the rope because of her movements, Xiao Shenjing untied the ropes while comforting her, "Yunxi, you're alright now."
You're alright!
Yunxi's struggles gradually weakened.
It was as if she had reached her limit and fainted.
Xiao Shenjing took off his outer robe and wrapped it around her body.
He paused for a moment when he picked up Yunxi.
She was much lighter than he had expected.
She was so light that he could lift her up with one hand.
Xiao Shenjing, holding Yunxi, turned around and glanced at Sun Bin on the ground.
He only said one sentence to Dao Yi: "Let him live."
"Yes." Dao Yi accepted the order and immediately bowed his head.
Little did he know that the word "朕" (the imperial "I") made Sun Bin tremble violently and almost lose control of his bladder.
I?
The reigning emperor.
He was known as the Slaughter King.
At this point, Sun Bin had lost even the courage to fantasize; all he wanted was to die so he could suffer less torment.
Just as he was about to bite his tongue, he was stopped by the knife.
"His Majesty allowed you to live, so you must live well." Dao Yi kicked him and said in a vicious voice, "You really have no sense of propriety."
I really can't imagine what that beast would have done to Miss Yunxi if His Majesty hadn't come tonight.
Xiao Shenjing carried Yunxi onto the carriage.
The gilded incense ball hanging from the carriage shimmered with light, clearly reflecting the red mark on Yunxi's face and the five-finger mark.
He could even clearly see the moisture on her eyelashes.
I don't know if it was from sweat or tears that it got wet.
Xiao Shenjing considered himself a gentleman and would never take advantage of someone in distress, not to mention that he did not like Yun Xi, so even when he was holding Yun Xi, he left half an arm's length between them.
A stray cat jumped down from the roof beam, causing the carriage to lurch.
As Xiao Shenjing turned to the side, Yunxi rolled into his arms.
After settling into a stable position, he subconsciously looked at Yunxi in his arms.
Her eyes were closed, and her thick eyelashes drooped.
She obediently and quietly clung to him.
It was a sight he had never seen before.
Perhaps it was this novelty that filled Xiao Shenjing with patience at this moment.
He carried Yunxi directly into the Qianqing Palace.
Xiao Shenjing rarely took eunuchs with him when he went out.
So when Eunuch Fu saw him carrying in a woman in tattered clothes, he was taken aback.
"Go get a set of clothes, call a few quick-handed palace maids over, and summon the imperial physician!" Xiao Shenjing carried Yunxi directly to the warm pool behind the bedchamber without stopping.
When Xiao Shenjing placed Yunxi on the chair, her outer robe, which was too large, came undone.
In the bright light, he could clearly see the mottled bloodstains on her clothes.
He frowned, recalling the situation at the city gate that day.
The thought that she dared to attack him so brazenly in order to escape sent a chill down his spine.
She couldn't even control the force with which she took off her clothes.
The blood mixed with sweat, along with the rotten, musty smell of the prison cell, was certainly not a pleasant odor.
Xiao Shenjing frowned in disdain.
But his hands didn't stop moving.
Even when palace maids entered, he scolded them, telling them to "get out."
The chilling voice startled everyone, and the palace maid immediately bowed and retreated from behind the screen.
However, while checking the wound, the fabric stuck to it was pulled, and the sharp pain made Yunxi frown and groan.
Xiao Shenjing abruptly stopped.
Staring at her distressed expression, he finally frowned and softened his movements.
Peeling away a layer of tattered inner garment that was stuck on, a hideous wound on his arm was revealed to Xiao Shenjing.
Looking at the pus and blood oozing from the wound, Xiao Shenjing's hand veins bulged, and he remained silent for a long time.
The candlelight flickered.
He suddenly remembered the five kunai wounds on Yunxi's back.
Even though it was gone when he last checked, Xiao Shenjing didn't believe it was truly without any trace.
He let Yunxi lie on his shoulder and pulled her undergarment off his shoulder a little.
He had already seen it before, so he didn't feel any psychological burden.
By the candlelight, he indeed saw the faint scars left by the kunai on her back.
She must have used some method to prevent him from recognizing her.
Xiao Shenjing, with a stern face, called in the maid who was waiting outside.
"Clean her up properly."
The head palace maid in charge was Aunt Jiang, whom Xiao Shenjing often used.
Unexpectedly, after taking only a few steps, he heard a painful groan coming from behind him.
Although faint, it clearly reached Xiao Shenjing's ears.
He immediately turned around, about to reprimand the palace maid for being so careless.
But I never expected to see the festering, bloody hole on her leg, with skin and blood stuck together, a horribly mangled mess.
To help that vile alien race, they were foolish enough to disregard everything.
When Xiao Shenjing came out with a cold face, Eunuch Fu was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe.
He quickly asked Dao Yi, who was on night duty at the door, "Which concubine just went in?"
Dao Yi lowered his voice and said, "It's not a concubine, it's Miss Yunxi."
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Fu Gonggong's expression changed for a few moments, then he quickly nodded.
That Miss Yunxi can be said to be very famous and well-known.
He was released after only a few days in the Zhaoyu prison, and His Majesty personally went to pick him up in the middle of the night.
Could it be that a new master is about to be added to the palace?
At this moment, Xiao Shenjing called out, "Fushun, go and bring that bottle of creamy lotion."
"His Majesty's bottle now has only one left," Eunuch Fu reminded him.
Xiao Shenjing gave him a cold look and said, "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Go get it."
After Yunxi had washed, had medicine applied, and changed her clothes, Xiao Shenjing personally carried her out.
Just like getting a new toy, before you get tired of it, you're bound to care about it a bit at first.
So when Xiao Shenjing placed her on the dragon bed, Eunuch Fu's eyes widened for a moment.
At this moment, Yunxi's cheeks were flushed from the high fever, and her rapid breathing caused her chest to rise and fall slightly.
Xiao Shenjing paused for a moment, then ordered after a few breaths, "Lower the gauze curtains."
Before the imperial physician arrived, he only showed a small part of Yunxi's wrist from the lake-colored gauze curtain with cloud and dragon patterns. After taking two steps away, he turned back and covered her porcelain-white wrist with a handkerchief.
After the imperial physician entered, Xiao Shenjing sat on the soft couch to the side and did not leave.
While waiting for someone to brew the medicine, he had someone bring in several official documents.
Thinking that after giving her the medicine, he ordered someone to send Yunxi to another palace.
It's unclear whether Yunxi is delirious from the fever or trapped in a nightmare from which she can't wake up.
Just as Xiao Shenjing finished reviewing a memorial, he suddenly heard a scream from the bed: "No! No!"
Xiao Shenjing immediately looked up.
Yunxi frowned and shook her head repeatedly, as if she had seen something she could not accept.
"Stop! Stop!"
She even waved her hands, as if trying to push the person in front of her away.
But she couldn't do it; she couldn't push it away.
The imperial edict still used a sharp knife to cut off the prisoner's face.
The bloody wound magnified endlessly before Yunxi's eyes, and that pain returned to her in the blink of an eye.
Her whole body was so tense, as if it were about to break apart. "Ahhh, no, no, no!"
This was the first time Xiao Shenjing had seen her like this.
Painful and desperate.
"Yunxi!" He walked to the bedside, subconsciously grasped her waving hand, and called out.
The prisoner, whose skin had been cut open, grabbed Yunxi's hand and pleaded, "Save me, save me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the rest of his intact skin seemed to melt away and fall off.
"Save me, save you!"
She gripped the prisoner's hand tightly, trying to pull him behind her.
The force she used was so great, like the last struggle of a desperate person.
The veins in his neck bulged from straining, causing Xiao Shenjing to feel pain.
"Yunxi, wake up," Xiao Shenjing called out, his voice trembling with pain.
But Yunxi, trapped in a nightmare, couldn't hear it.
She saw Xing Zhao pick up a blood-dripping dagger and walk towards her, grabbing the prisoner Qin Gongzi's hand and trying to pull him away.
"No, no, please don't, don't kill him! Grab me!" Yunxi was sweating profusely, shaking her head, and refused to let go.
Xiao Shenjing called out a few more times.
Yunxi, however, still held his hand tightly.
The freshly bandaged wound was oozing blood, staining her inner clothes red.
He must have dreamt of that filthy alien race again.
Xiao Shenjing immediately lost his patience and was about to forcefully break free when he suddenly heard Yunxi call out a name.
"Get out of here! Don't kill Young Master Qin! No, please!"
Xiao Shenjing's expression froze for a moment.
The next moment, he realized what Yunxi had been dreaming about.
Did you dream about the Zhaoyu Prison?
Xing Zhao was a person promoted by Xiao Shenjing. As the deputy commander of the Supervisory Office, he was most skilled at using various tortures to pry people's mouths open.
No one who was imprisoned could withstand it.
Seeing her covered in sweat, clutching her hand tightly, and feeling a faint pain where she had just bitten her.
"You're barely able to take care of yourself and your life is hanging by a thread, how can you expect to save others? Being soft-hearted will only hurt you."
He spoke calmly, but there was a hint of mockery in his eyes.
It's like watching a naive toddler who doesn't understand anything.
But then he suddenly remembered what Congtou had said at Yunxi's grave.
"Our eldest sister would give her heart to you. To help you, to find a way to be with you, she, a woman, even risked her life to join the army. Do you know how dangerous that was? You didn't even save her. What did she do wrong to deserve this treatment?"
In the end, Xiao Shenjing simply ordered someone to bring warm water, and with his eyelashes lowered and his expression unreadable, he gently wiped the sweat from her face and neck.
Whether it was the warm water or his gentle movements, Yunxi lost her strength, released Xiao Shenjing, and let her hands hang limply, slowly calming down.
Xiao Shenjing glanced at his hand, which had several red marks from being gripped, and stared at Yunxi for a while before ordering someone to take the water out.
When the medicine was delivered, Xiao Shenjing stepped aside to let the palace maid feed him.
As a result, Yunxi was unusually quiet and well-behaved.
Her docile and unresisting nature pleased Xiao Shenjing.
He simply rolled up his sleeves and took the medicine bowl from the palace maid.
She even fed Yunxi the medicine in a very professional manner.
However, even things that seem simple require skill.
But he was born a prince, and no servant would dare to let him serve anyone, no matter how bad his treatment was.
As soon as the medicine was fed to Yunxi, she coughed and vomited it out.
Xiao Shenjing forced him to eat another spoonful.
Yunxi still choked and vomited.
The palace maid standing nearby wanted to tell him to feed her more slowly.
But in the end, he didn't dare to speak.
Xiao Shenjing stared at the medicine stains around Yunxi's mouth, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.
He obediently swallowed the medicine when others fed it to him.
When he gave her the medicine, she vomited.
Even if he faints, you still have to go against him?
Xiao Shenjing wasted almost half a bowl of medicine.
With a furrowed brow, he instructed the palace maid behind him, "Have someone brew me another bowl."
The medicine arrived quickly.
However, this time, Xiao Shenjing did not cause any more trouble.
After Yunxi finished drinking her medicine, he held her in his arms and sat her on the soft couch, ordering a palace maid to change the soiled bedding.
The candlelight, as bright as day, flickered.
Xiao Shenjing looked at Yunxi nestled obediently in his arms, completely different from her aggressive and vulgar demeanor during the day.
For a moment, I felt that she should just stay quietly and peacefully in the inner palace.
Just like the other women in the harem, including Consort Xue, they racked their brains to please him, depended on him, and regarded him as their god.
If she had just behaved, why would she have to suffer like this?
However, after being tempered in the Zhao prison this time, she should no longer be as ignorant and arrogant as before.
If she sincerely admits her mistake and apologizes, he might even consider taking her into his harem.
Anyway, she likes him.
However, her status was too low, and her manners too coarse and vulgar, making her unsuitable to be a concubine. But, he could still give her the titles of beauty or talented woman by having her properly taught palace etiquette.
Although it will definitely cause some turmoil in the court, as long as she is obedient and sensible, he doesn't mind spending some effort on her.
Having made up his mind to take Yunxi as his concubine, Xiao Shenjing graciously allowed her to share his bed.
He then ordered someone to light calming incense.
Yunxi was no longer awakened by nightmares.
As dawn broke, Xiao Shenjing should have gone to court.
A line of palace maids filed in, dressed and cleansed.
The palace was governed by strict rules, and everything was kept quiet from beginning to end.
Just as he was putting on the black dragon robe under the maid's clothes and adjusting his crown, he heard Yunxi suddenly call out, "Xiao Shenjing!"
His angry and resentful tone startled all the maids.
Before they could react, Yunxi on the bed yelled, "You bastard, I'm going to kill you!"
Xiao Shenjing's face darkened instantly.
In a dream, I save a complete stranger, a young master Qin.
Is the general sentiment towards him one of wanting to kill him?
"Xiao Shenjing," Yunxi called out through gritted teeth, seemingly lost in a dream.
There are actually people in this world who dare to call the emperor by his name.
The palace maids, startled and realizing what had happened, all knelt down in unison.
They all pressed their heads against their arms, wishing they could shrink themselves up.
The entire bedchamber fell silent due to the sudden storm.
It seemed as if, in an instant, this place would be awash in blood.
Xiao Shenjing's face turned completely black.
Yunxi, however, was completely unaware of the nightmare.
She dreamt that Xu Yuansi was captured by Xiao Shenjing.
She clenched her hands tightly, as if she were holding a life-saving sword.
"No, you must let him go, Xiao Shenjing, please let Brother Xu go!"
"I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"
Xiao Shenjing stared at Yunxi on the dragon bed.
This time, I ignored her and let her drift into nightmares.
"If anyone dares to spread even a single word of what happened today, I will hold you accountable." With that, he strode away.
The majesty of an emperor is inviolable.
Those who violate the law will be executed by slow slicing.
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