The room suddenly became quiet, filled with a tense feeling as if a storm was about to come, and several imperial doctors did not dare to look up.

After a while, Xiao Junzhan glanced sideways and asked, "What do you think, Ranran?"

"It couldn't be that Seventh Sister harmed me," Wei Hanzhang frowned and said, "You don't know, the clothes Seventh Sister is wearing were specially made for me by my mother at the Jinyi Pavilion in the capital. There are eight sets in total. I saw that Seventh Sister liked the lavender one, so I gave it to her..."

Xiao Junzhan didn't know there was such a hidden secret, so he ordered the maid, "Where are the other seven pieces of clothing? Find them all."

Luzhu and Lulan obeyed the order and took out the remaining seven sets of clothes and had them examined by the imperial physician. It was discovered that all seven sets of new clothes were stained with insect powder.

"It seems that there is really someone behind the scenes," Xiao Junzhan said with a cold expression. He stood up and looked at Wei Hanzhang quietly for a long time. Finally, after giving a few gentle instructions, he stood up and left.

Wei Hanzhang looked at his broad back, moved his lips, but ultimately said nothing.

At this moment, she felt that there was an empty galaxy between them.

It was so scary that she was actually a little afraid to touch him.

………………

Not long after Xiao Junzhan left, Wei Hanzhang went to the side hall to visit Wei Hansu. The imperial physician who treated her said that the snake venom in her body had been removed and her life was no longer in danger.

Wei Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, but was still a little scared.

She was horrified. What was going on? Jiang loved to have clothes made for her at the Jinyi Pavilion. This was not a secret and anyone with an eye would know about it. Who would have thought that everything was fine before, but not long after she became the Crown Princess, someone took advantage of this opportunity.

...To be honest, it was Wei Hansu who saved her from disaster today.

Wei Hanzhang had personally taken care of this concubine sister for a long time, and he felt a little guilty about it.

After coming out of Wei Hansu's room, I finally felt like going to the bathroom to wash away the day's heat.

When I entered the bathroom and passed by the tall mirror, I was almost scared.

Her face was stained with snake blood. Thinking back to the time when Chen Zishu had killed countless snakes, there was indeed a lot of blood splattered on her cheeks and neck.

...Lüzhu and Lulan were really something. When they helped her change her clothes, they didn't even wipe the blood off her face.

Was it with this face that she appeared in front of Xiao Boqian?

Thinking of Xiao Boqian, she thought of his eyes again.

So far away, so lonely as the snow, as if he no longer cared about anything... and neither did she.

How horrible.

Xiao Boqian is so scary like that...

Wei Hanzhang closed her eyes, took off her clothes, walked into the warm pool, let the gentle water wrap around her, and tried not to think about the man.

She was not in a hurry to leave. She began to wonder, who could it be? Who could have gone through so much trouble just to sprinkle insect powder on her new clothes? The palace was cool and shady, and the large area was uninhabited all year round. Even if there were servants to repair and maintain it, snakes and rats were inevitable.

...If she had worn new clothes with Wei Hansu today, she might have been the one who was bitten accidentally.

Wei Hanzhang’s first suspect was naturally the one from the Duke of Anguo’s Mansion?

After all, in Liu Wanning's eyes, she had cut off her advantage and snatched away the Crown Prince whom she had always dreamed of.

But it's hard to say.

There are those who also covet the position of Crown Princess, and there are also members of the royal family...

They probably thought that without her, Xiao Boqian would no longer have the idea of ​​marrying, and naturally he would have to adopt a child from the royal family.

There are too many twists and turns in this matter, and Wei Hanzhang is having a headache trying to figure it out.

Feeling tired, Wei Hanzhang stood up, wiped his body, put on his underwear, wrapped himself in pajamas, and left the bathroom.

There was no one outside and a cool breeze came in through the window. Wei Hanzhang was about to call the maid in to wring out his hair when he saw a slender and elegant figure sitting on a rocking chair in front of the window.

Wei Hanzhang stared at him for a few moments, then lowered his eyes and asked, "Why are you here again?"

The man in the rocking chair looked straight at her with deep eyes. After a while, he stood up and walked towards her.

He held her shoulders, asked her to sit in front of the dressing mirror, and started to twist her hair.

The movements were gentle yet awkward. Wei Hanzhang pursed his lips and didn't look at the person in the mirror.

She thought angrily: Isn't he very cold and indifferent? Isn't he ignoring me? Why did he come back? In silence, her hair was wrung out bit by bit. Xiao Junzhan patiently applied hair oil to her hair and combed it through with a jade comb. Finally, he lifted her chin and leaned over to kiss her.

Wei Hanzhang turned his face away, put his hand on his chest, pushed him away, and said, "Let me go!"

Xiao Junzhan paused slightly, then cupped her hands together, not allowing her to be rejected, picked her up, carried her to the dressing table and kissed her.

He held her hands with one hand and the back of her neck with the other. The kiss was breathless and they could hear each other's crazy beating heartbeats.

The boiling heat almost made her melt.

But Wei Hanzhang was very angry, "No, I don't want to kiss you now!"

She didn't stop struggling because she really didn't want to be kissed.

But Xiao Junzhan seemed like a different person. He spread her kicking legs and squeezed himself in. His hand reached inside her loose pajamas and touched the girl's delicate waist.

They were both startled for a moment, and then he continued to move up decisively while soothing her: "Ran Ran, be good, let me be unrestrained for once."

She was frightened, frightened to death by his predatory attitude, her heart was filled with grievances, and she almost cried, "You, you just wanted to flirt with me, I was so frightened today, I was almost scared to death, and you didn't feel sorry for me at all... and you just knew how to kiss me and touch me... I was almost bitten by a poisonous snake..."

He lowered his eyes and looked at her. He didn't know when he had stopped the movement of his hands. His dark eyes were full of shattered coldness. "You don't need to remind me. I saw it with my own eyes, Ranran. You were almost bitten by a poisonous snake, right in front of me."

If he had not heard the familiar scream while walking with his ministers after dinner and rushed over, he might have known about her only after she had happened.

If he had not arrived in time, if the snake had not pounced on Mei Gu, and if Mei Gu had not decisively hidden aside, giving him the opportunity to shoot the arrow, who knows what would have happened today.

She would be hurt, and if bitten by a poisonous snake, maybe...she would die.

"Do you know how I feel?" Xiao Junzhan held her hand and placed it on his chest, saying, "Seeing you hiding behind Chen Zishu in such a mess with blood all over your face, watching him holding you to avoid danger, and watching that damn snake pounce on you, I have never been so panicked here."

His eyes were filled with demonic madness, without any of the warmth and tenderness of the past.

Wei Hanzhang stared at it blankly, unable to utter a word for a moment.

(End of this chapter)