While Yun Yuan was in a coma, people came to visit her from time to time and expressed their deep sympathy for her situation.
Dong Lingchuan and Ximen Yi both sent a lot of valuable healing medicines, but Yun Yuan still did not wake up after drinking them.
Her eyes were tightly closed, and her thick eyelashes like crow feathers drooped slightly, casting a faint shadow under her eyes. Her originally pink lips now looked slightly pale, and her inky hair was slightly messy and scattered on the white pillow, as if she was asleep.
"Are you still not awake?" Dong Lingchuan, who was wearing a dark white robe and had a slender figure, asked softly to Xia Lian, the maid who was serving at the bedside.
Xia Lian heard the voice, looked up and saw it was him, and quickly knelt down and saluted: "Your Highness Lingchuan."
Dong Lingchuan nodded slightly, walked to the bedside, looked at Yun Yuan who was still unconscious, frowned slightly, and asked again: "Why is she still not awake?"
"To reply to His Highness Lingchuan, the elders said that the young lady chose to isolate herself and refused to wake up because she suffered a huge change and could not bear the blow of reality." Xia Lian said sadly.
Dong Lingchuan gently lifted the curtain, ignoring Xia Lian's hesitation to speak, and sat calmly beside the bed, staring at Yun Yuan's face quietly.
His gaze started from her delicate eyebrows and eyes, slid down little by little, and finally stopped at her pink lips.
He raised his hand.
Ximen Yi suddenly rushed in. After seeing Dong Lingchuan's actions, he became furious and flew forward to stop him.
"What do you want to do?"
Dong Lingchuan calmly withdrew his hand and explained in a steady voice: "I'm trying to find a way to wake her up."
"How do you want to wake him up?" Ximen Yi frowned.
Dong Lingchuan said calmly, "When a person is in a state of suffocation, they usually resist and struggle instinctively. My idea is to break Yun Yuan's peaceful state in her dream through artificial suffocation and see if I can stimulate her to wake up."
"Ridiculous!" Ximen Yi shouted angrily, "I think you want to murder her."
However, Dong Lingchuan said, "How do you know this method won't work if you don't try it? If she continues to sleep like this, her body will become very weak. You don't want her to be bedridden all day long, do you?"
"Anyway, this method won't work." Ximen Yi said, "Let's think of another way."
Dong Lingchuan raised his eyebrows slightly and suggested, "Perhaps you know something that Yun Yuan particularly likes or dislikes. Why not tell her and try to see if you can stimulate her reaction and wake her up."
Ximen Yi pondered for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "I got it!"
Dong Lingchuan looked at him with a little doubt.
Ximen Yi leaned over Yun Yuan and whispered in her ear, "Yun Yuan, if you don't get up, I will ask my father to give you to me as the Crown Princess."
Ximen Yi's original intention was to scare Yun Yuan, but when he said this, only he knew how fast his heart was beating.
Dong Lingchuan's expression turned cold, and his words seemed to contain ice chips: "Is this the solution you mentioned?"
Ximen Yi coughed lightly and said, "Yun Yuan likes to learn martial arts and hates the topic of getting married. She once said that if getting married would hinder her cultivation, then she would never get married."
Dong Lingchuan seemed to be lost in thought.
Ximen Yi patted Yun Yuan's quilt lightly, then retracted his hand as if he had been electrocuted.
"Yun Yuan, if you don't get up I will..."
"Let's go to Dongxiang to get married." Dong Lingchuan interrupted him.
Ximen Yi was stunned, then immediately became angry: "Dong Lingchuan, Yun Yuan belongs to my Xiling people. What do you mean by marriage? Are you going to go to war with our Xiling people?"
Dong Lingchuan explained expressionlessly, "I just thought my proposal would stimulate Yun Yuan more. Since this concerns the relationship between the two countries, a marriage alliance is more difficult to refuse than a marriage."
Ximen Yi snorted coldly: "Don't think I don't know what you mean. Let me tell you, Yun Yuan is from my Xiling Country and there is no way she can marry into your Dongxiang Country."
"That's not necessarily true." Dong Lingchuan said calmly: "If she doesn't marry Dongxiang, will she marry you? You and Yun Yuan have known each other for so long, if she was interested in you, she would have revealed it long ago, just like..."
"Just like you are now."
"I didn't say that." Dong Lingchuan said in a cold tone: "Just like Feng Aotian used to be with Nan Yanche, he couldn't help but get close to him. Now you are at best just a friend of Yun Yuan."
Ximen Yi felt a pang in his heart after hearing this and retorted, "So what? At least I'm still her friend, and what about you? You're not even a friend."
He continued coldly, "If I remember correctly, at the Three Kingdoms Conference last year, you slapped her and sent her flying off the stage without showing any mercy. Compared to me, Yun Yuan is even less likely to like you."
Dong Lingchuan's face changed slightly. Recalling the situation at that time, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful and self-blaming.
He took a deep breath and replied, "The competition was fair and just. Yun Yuan has her own pride and persistence. It would be disrespectful for her if I gave in to her, and she doesn't need me to give in."
Ximen Yi rolled his eyes and said impatiently, "Alright, go now. Yun Yuan doesn't need you to leave, nor does she need you to come visit her so many times. I will take good care of her."
Dong Lingchuan frowned and said unhappily, "I'm visiting Yun Yuan, not you. Why do you make the decision for Yun Yuan?"
The two people started arguing about this issue, and finally they fought at the door. Both sides were injured, and there was no winner in the end.
Xia Lian was stunned and stood there helplessly, begging Yun Yuan to wake up quickly. She really didn't know how to deal with this situation.
After Dong Lingchuan and Ximen Yi exchanged a few moves, they stopped at the same time as if they had some tacit understanding.
Then they returned to Yun Yuan's room together. One of them refused to leave, and the other refused to leave either. No one of them had any intention of leaving, and the situation remained deadlocked.
"Didn't you say urging her to get married is effective? It's been an hour, why hasn't she made any move yet?"
Although Ximen Yi was not too sure, he couldn't help but say, "She will wake up naturally after you leave."
Dong Lingchuan narrowed his eyes, and his right hand grasped Ximen Yi's collar tightly like steel, then he suddenly exerted force and threw him directly out of the window, and he himself flew out right after him.
The two men fought again.
In order not to damage the buildings in the yard, neither of them fought with all their strength. As they fought, they heard joking sounds coming from the door.
"The two princes are in a very elegant mood."
Dong Lingchuan and Ximen Yi landed lightly on the ground and looked towards the door.
The man had a tall and slender figure, with narrow, upturned eyes. He held a folding fan in his bony fingers and fanned it gently, looking cynical.
If Dong Lingchuan is the elegant snow lotus and Ximen Yi is the warm sunflower, then this man is the dangerous mandala.
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