The guests held their breath. Was this dancer planning to assassinate Helian Yizhuo?! The entire place was silent, with only the passionate music echoing. The cold shadow instantly appeared before Helian Yizhuo's eyes. Surprisingly, Helian Yizhuo didn't even try to evade it, instead smiling at the dancer.
The dancer also gave him a charming smile that was enough to turn everyone upside down. The sword turned around. It was a soft sword as thin as a cicada's wing and almost transparent. It had been wrapped around the dancer's waist before.
The guests finally settled down and continued to watch the dancer's sword dance. The wind started to blow, and the dancer used a trick called "wind blowing willows", and the veil on her face flew away with the wind.
The male guests were excited to see if they could catch the beauty's veil, but unexpectedly the veil flew in one direction. Perhaps it was fate or something else, but the veil flew towards Shi Mingyue. She couldn't dodge in time and her face was covered by the veil.
Shi Mingyue only had one feeling about Tang Nuan: nausea. She quickly removed the veil, her stomach churning. Her face was actually covered by the veil that Tang Nuan had used. The thought of this awful thing made her stand up and within a few steps, she vomited everything she had just eaten.
The guests' attention was completely riveted by Shi Mingyue, wondering if this beauty's veil wasn't fragrant, and why had Princess Ling vomited from nausea? Tang Nuan's face on the stage also turned green. No wonder she had disliked Princess Ling the first time she saw her; it turned out they were natural enemies.
Tang Nuan just danced on the stage, and she moved lightly with lotus steps and soon stepped off the stage and stood beside the second prince Fu Baiheng.
Helian Yizhuo clapped his hands and said with a smile, "The sword dance just now was truly wonderful."
Fu Baiheng turned his head and looked at Tang Nuan with admiration, and said with a smile: "The Third Prince is praising you, why don't you thank the Third Prince?"
Tang Nuan bowed towards Helian Yizhuo and said, "Thank you for your praise, Your Highness."
Helian Yizhuo looked at Tang Nuan with satisfaction, and suddenly sighed: "It's a pity that I don't have someone as wonderful as you by my side."
"Then how about I give her to the Third Prince?" Fu Baiheng said as if Tang Nuan was just an object.
Helian Yizhuo also accepted it very naturally: "Thank you very much."
Tang Nuan smiled and walked over to Helian Yizhuo. However, Helian Yizhuo seemed to have lost interest in Tang Nuan now that he had gotten what he wanted. He didn't even glance at her. Instead, he looked at Shi Mingyue and asked with concern, "This should be Princess Ling, right? Were you feeling unwell just now?"
Shi Mingyue had just rinsed her mouth and drank some hot water, finally feeling much better. She finally understood why Tang Nuan had become a Wutan spy. It turned out that it was at this banquet in her previous life that Fu Baiheng had given Tang Nuan to Helian Yizhuo. Tang Nuan was a native of Zhao, yet she ended up being a Wutan spy. This was simply unforgivable, and it only deepened her hatred for her. Now that Helian Yizhuo had asked her a question, Shi Mingyue, though disgusted by him, had to force a smile and answer, "I just drank some wine and have a stomachache. I apologize for causing you all a disservice."
Helian Yizhuo remained silent, his gaze falling on Fu Yueli, who was standing beside him. "Being born blind in the imperial family is worse than death." He quickly looked away, as a new show started up on the stage.
After today's dinner ended and they got on the carriage outside the imperial city gate, Fu Yueli took Shi Mingyue's wrist and began to take her pulse.
Shi Mingyue was fine originally, she only vomited because of Tang Nuan. She said helplessly: "I'm really fine, you don't have to worry."
Fu Yueli didn't listen to her. He knew a little about medicine and felt relieved because Shi Mingyue's pulse was stable and there was nothing special about it.
"Why do you think the second prince gave Tang Nuan to Helian Yizhuo?" Shi Mingyue wanted to know what Fu Yueli thought.
Fu Yueli couldn't help but frown. He didn't want Shi Mingyue to know too much about Fu Baiheng and Helian Yizhuo, so he said, "Maybe he wants to please Helian Yizhuo."
While this made sense, Shi Mingyue had to consider further. In the past decade of her previous life, Wu Tan and Zhao State had fought dozens of battles. On one occasion, the enemy even laid siege to Xinzhou, putting the city in imminent danger. The emperor initially dispatched the Third Prince to lead the troops, but he failed to repel the Wu Tan army, and the battle remained stalemated. It wasn't until the emperor sent the Second Prince that he, surprisingly, drove the Wu Tan army back west of the Peacock River in just three days, and they didn't attack again for four or five months.
At the time, Shi Mingyue and Qin Zheng both believed that the Second Prince was a skilled military leader, a master of foresight. Now, thinking about it, it seemed rather odd. Qin Zheng had casually told her that the Second Prince had gone to Xinzhou without consulting his subordinates, but had simply led his troops directly into battle and engaged the Wutan army, effortlessly routing them. Later, rumors spread that the Second Prince, Fu Baiheng, was a genius, a master of military strategy, and that with him around, the Wutan army wouldn't dare invade Kongque River again.
Could it be that Fu Baiheng and Helian Yizhuo were colluding to act this out? Shi Mingyue thought this was highly likely. Fu Baiheng was indeed trying to curry favor with Helian Yizhuo, as the two of them had already been secretly colluding with each other.
Now that she knew the opportunity, she must not let what happened in the previous life happen again.
The next day, Shi Mingyue was sitting at her desk, using pen and paper to review what she knew from her past life, when she suddenly smelled a strong medicinal scent. She quickly used a nearby book to hold down the written paper. Turning around, she saw Fu Yueli and his cousin, Lu Lingyan, arriving with a bowl of medicinal soup.
Shi Mingyue knew that Lu Lingyan also knew that Fu Yueli had recovered her sight long ago, so she asked curiously, "Why are you bringing the medicine?"
Lu Lingyan put down the medicine bowl and said with a smile: "This is what your cousin made specially for you. You must drink it all and don't let him down."
What? Shi Mingyue was confused. "I'm not sick, why are you making medicine for me?"
As soon as Fu Yueli glanced at Lu Lingyan, Lu Lingyan waved to them and left.
"Don't you have lower abdominal pain during your period? This medicine can help with that."
Shi Mingyue hadn't expected Fu Yueli to still remember this matter, and her heart warmed. However, she hated taking medicine because all medicine was bitter and astringent, making it difficult to swallow. Moreover, she had drunk too much in her previous life and didn't want to experience that bitterness again.
"I, I don't need to drink it. It just hurts for a while, it's nothing."
Fu Yueli shook her head: "No, the doctor said that the pain in the lower abdomen during pregnancy is caused by a cold body. This medicine is warming in nature. If you drink it for a month or two, the pain will go away."
Seeing his insistence, Shi Mingyue couldn't refuse. She walked over, picked up the medicine bowl, closed her eyes deeply, and prepared herself before drinking it down in big gulps. As expected, it tasted bitter the moment it entered her mouth, and her tongue and throat could feel the bitterness, even rushing straight to her brain. She didn't stop and drank the whole medicine in one gulp.
Just as she was about to put down the bowl, Fu Yueli stuffed something into her mouth. She subconsciously touched it with her tongue and felt a sweet taste. It turned out to be osmanthus candy.
"It will feel better if you hold some candy in your mouth." Fu Yueli smiled gently.
Shi Mingyue nodded, the bitterness in her mouth was neutralized a lot by the sweetness of the osmanthus candy. She looked up at Fu Yueli, and it seemed that the sweetness entered her heart, and suddenly she felt sweet in her heart.
In her previous life, except for when she was a child, her parents would give her candy when she took medicine, but no one else did that after that. She remembered the days when she was barely alive, when Qin Zheng asked her to take medicine, he would only say that good medicine tastes bitter. After all, she was an adult, and she could no longer complain like a child.
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