A day later, the winter snow rolled down again, and the Imperial City of Dayan was shrouded in gloom and cold.
Prince Chun’s Mansion, the Ninth Master’s inner bedroom.
Doctor Zhao, holding the medicine box, said, "Master Jiu, has the young lady not woken up from yesterday to today?"
"No, I've been having nightmares."
At this moment, King Hui rushed in, ignoring all the guards who were trying to stop him. He said, "Uncle Ninth Prince! You're really going too far! She's only eighteen! How could she bear to witness such bloody things?"
Doctor Zhao said, "Your Highness, please do not make any noise. The patient must not be disturbed any further. Otherwise, Miss Fu's emotions will cause her blood to surge upwards, resulting in insufficient blood supply, causing blood loss to her five internal organs and endangering her life."
"What! So serious!" His Royal Highness Prince Hui was stunned on the spot. He was too surprised to speak.
Doctor Zhao gave Fu Tong'er acupuncture and fed her several doses of herbal medicine. He then said to Master Jiu, "Master, Miss Fu's pulse is temporarily stable. Remember not to stimulate her again. As long as she can make it through the crucial seven days, she'll be fine. In short, Miss Fu must maintain a calm mind. If she still has nightmares, you can make porridge with salvia miltiorrhiza."
Lu Zhenzhi nodded.
Doctor Zhao retreated.
King Hui walked to the bedside and looked at Fu Tong'er, who had her eyes closed, kept muttering, kept crying, and had nightmares and talked nonsense. He felt very distressed!
"Tong'er..." King Hui couldn't help but reach out to touch the frightened little face. Lu Zhenyi gave him a murderous look -
King Hui's hand froze, and he withdrew it. He turned around, fetched a chair, and sat down beside the bed. Neither man spoke again.
Fu Tong'er, lying on the bed, waved her hands wildly and shook her head from side to side.
"No... please... let him go..."
"don't want--!"
"No! No! Please! Master Jiu! Tong'er, please!"
"No! You can't kill him!"
"No! Don't go! Don't go..."
King Hui listened to the nightmare again and again and choked up, saying, "Tong'er, Tong'er..."
Lu Zhenzhi glanced at King Hui and said calmly, "I didn't realize you were so affectionate towards her." He stroked Fu Tong'er's face and tucked her flailing hands under the covers. Ever since returning from the military camp yesterday, the girl had been either unconscious or screaming in nightmares.
"Why did the Ninth Prince treat her like that? Do you know how much she loves you?"
Lu Zhenzhi said calmly: "She doesn't like me."
"If it's not love, then what is it!" King Hui suppressed his anger. "From the moment she looked at the Ninth Prince in the palace, I sensed her feelings for you. Every time she saw the Ninth Prince, ah, I saw that if she wasn't shy, she would have wanted to run up and hug him... After all that, if she wasn't so determined to follow the Ninth Prince, she would never have been so decisive towards me."
"Oh, I already know her feelings for me. However, her feelings are no longer just simple liking."
"So the Ninth Prince used her, taking advantage of her immature feelings for him to bully her! The Ninth Prince might as well let her go. She's only eighteen years old, how could she withstand the Ninth Prince's bullying!"
"This isn't bullying," Lu Zhenzhi said. "Sooner or later, my woman will have to stand with me through thick and thin. If you can't even handle a little bloodshed, how will you handle the storms ahead?"
"She's only eighteen! She's not one of your soldiers on the battlefield! She can't handle it!"
Lu Zhenzhi snorted coldly: "Where did your nephew hear that the ring belonged to the spy?"
King Hui said, "I said that on purpose. I hope she can leave the emperor's uncle on her own."
"Oh, you know who that ring belongs to. The emperor's nephew can't afford to offend him."
"Could it be that it belongs to the Ninth Prince's uncle? - the Ninth Prince's uncle?!" King Hui was frightened.
Lu Zhenzhi took out his ring, held it up to the light, and looked at the words engraved on the inner ring. He said, "Lu Jin, this is my handwriting."
"! Was it the Ninth Prince who saved her three years ago?!" King Hui was shocked again, "You two knew each other three years ago! The person Tong'er loved from the beginning to the end was the Ninth Prince!?"
Lu Zhenzhi snorted. "Otherwise, why do you think I tolerate her wearing it all the time? Is it generosity?"
King Hui couldn't help but laugh at himself: "So, she mistook me for the Ninth Prince, and the Crown Prince of Qi for the Ninth Prince. The Ninth Prince knew all this, so why did he hurt her like this? If she ever knew the truth, she would leave the Ninth Prince like she left her juniors!"
Lu Zhenzhi stroked the ring on his finger: "She has deep feelings for me. Even if she knew, she would just be upset for a few days and then it would go away."
"Ninth Prince, do you insist on playing tricks on her? Forgive me for being so bold, but if you continue to treat her this way, I'm afraid your fate will be even worse than mine. At least I can see her. If she gives up on you, given her resolute nature and deep love for you, she'll probably hide away to the ends of the earth and never see you again."
Lu Zhenzhi snorted coldly.
"If you don't believe me, Ninth Prince, you can have someone snatch her jade ring. She has kept it with her, treating it as her 'bottom line' that no one can touch. If that line is broken, Ninth Prince, she will fight you to the death."
"Will you? For the sake of the king from three years ago, you'll fight the king of today..."
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