"It was nothing. Anyone would have stood by and done nothing." Li Changyu glanced coldly at Prince Rui beside him.
He maintained a cold and distant tone while speaking.
This was to avoid arousing Prince Rui's suspicion about their relationship.
Nevertheless, Prince Rui still noticed something amiss. Seeing Mi Shan covered in sweat, he took out a handkerchief and approached.
"Consort Mi Hui, how strange! It's clearly my second brother who's injured, yet you're sweating profusely with worry?"
"Your face is still so pale?"
"You're not feeling well either, are you? Here, take this handkerchief and wipe your sweat."
Prince Rui leaned closer, his voice filled with concern.
Mi Shan was startled: "No need, Prince Rui, I appreciate your kindness."
She was indeed enduring the pain.
The Gu worm allowed her and Li Changyu to share the same feelings; now, when Li Changyu was in pain, she was in pain too.
My shoulders felt like they were being pierced; it was incredibly difficult to even lift them.
Li Changyu naturally noticed this as well, and frowned slightly: "Consort Mi Hui must have been frightened. Have a maid take you back to your palace to rest."
"I'm fine." Mi Shan shook her head firmly, insisting on waiting for the imperial physician to arrive. "After all, the Crown Prince was injured while saving me. I need to see it with my own eyes before I can feel at ease."
Upon hearing this, Prince Rui couldn't help but look at her, then at the Crown Prince, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes.
But he quickly dismissed that idea.
"Just now, I said I would invite the Emperor, why did the Crown Prince refuse?" Mi Shan pondered for a moment and asked.
"Why do something meaningless? Even if Father comes, he will only favor Li Xuanche. Why should I humiliate myself?"
“Yes,” Prince Rui echoed, shaking his head, a look of heartache in his eyes. “It’s always been like this since we were little. Sometimes we can’t understand why, even though our second brother is the crown prince, our father and mother spoil our eldest brother so much.”
“I once witnessed my eldest brother and second brother arguing. Without saying a word, Mother came up and slapped my second brother, then shielded my eldest brother in her arms and asked him if he was hurt.”
“But clearly, it was the eldest brother who deliberately pushed the second brother down the slope, and he himself accidentally fell down as well. Yet the Empress Dowager only cares about the eldest brother and even made the second brother apologize to the eldest brother in front of us.”
"My second brother refused, so my mother went to my father. My father then hung my second brother up by his hands from the beam and forced him to apologize. Otherwise, he would not be allowed to eat or have anyone give him food."
"Second brother refused, until he fainted from hunger."
Speaking of this, Prince Rui couldn't help but wipe the corner of his eye.
Mi Shan's eyes reddened as she listened, recalling the times she was bullied by Mi Fen and Qiao Shi when she was a child.
A wave of indescribable sourness and pain washed over her, and she subconsciously turned to look at Li Changyu.
It's unbelievable that he, as the crown prince, grew up in an environment of favoritism and neglect. He must have had a very difficult time all these years.
But his face was cold, and his handsome features showed no emotion, as if what Prince Rui was saying was someone else's business and had nothing to do with him.
"Wordy."
"If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute."
"Second brother, I was just concerned about you, wasn't I?" Prince Rui stopped talking, feeling a bit annoyed.
Just then, a commotion came from outside. It was Qiao Yunsheng, dressed in a blue imperial physician's robe and carrying a medicine chest, walking briskly into the courtyard.
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