Chapter 611 Is he really that happy taking care of her?
Jiang Fenghua returned to the second floor. Xie Shang was still asleep, fast asleep.
She stood at the door for a short while, feeling a chill run through her body. Her heart was ice-cold, and her eyes were as cold as shattered ice shards.
The next moment, she pushed the door open, and a gust of cold wind rushed into the room.
Xie Shang was sleeping soundly when the loud noise of the door being pushed open woke him up. He said, "Ruan Ruan."
Jiang Fenghua stood by the door, staring at him, the sound of her questioning him echoing in her mind.
Her eyes were filled with coldness. "Has the Emperor woken up?"
"You already know." Xie Shang smiled and shamelessly leaned forward to hug her. "Ruan Ruan, I didn't mean to lie to you. You have amnesia and have forgotten everything from before. No matter what, I love you. No matter what our status is, our love will never change. I am the emperor, and it is impossible for me to marry only one woman. I lied to you because I was afraid that if you knew that I had married other women, you would reject me."
Jiang Fenghua shoved him away, "Liar, from now on I'm cutting all ties with you. You go your way, I'll go mine. Go to hell!"
"Ruan Ruan, what are you spacing out for! What happened?" Xie Shang's gentle voice pulled Jiang Fenghua back to reality.
Jiang Fenghua suppressed the anger in her eyes, put aside the grand words in her mind about severing ties with him, turned around and glared at Jiang Jinyan who followed her upstairs, then casually closed the door, as if she knew nothing.
Xie Shang got out of bed and walked to her, taking her hand and saying with concern, "Your hands are frozen. Tell me what you need and I'll help you."
Jiang Fenghua withdrew her hand and said, "I'm going to the outhouse."
Why did Xie Shang painstakingly fabricate all of this? It couldn't just be because he was the emperor. He had other concubines in his palace. If she asked him directly, would he make up all sorts of excuses to evade her, making her forget everything for the rest of her life? Would he lie to her for the rest of his life?
It's clearly not because he has other women. What is the reason that her older brother is unwilling to tell her? Will Lin Yu tell him?
How could she be the empress? Xie Shang is the emperor. Isn't the emperor his father?
The rumors circulating in Qingzhou City were clearly aimed at the new emperor's ascension to the throne. The emperor's first year on the throne actually referred to Xie Shang's first year on the throne. He and Lin Feng almost let it slip, but she didn't think of it that way.
She really wanted to punch herself.
Lin Yu and her older brother have been helping Xie Shang deceive her all along; they're in cahoots.
Jiang Fenghua couldn't help but cough again. Illness strikes like a landslide, and being sick is really unbearable. She felt weak all over, dizzy, cold, and shivering, and had no strength to talk to Xie Shang.
Xie Shang didn't notice her anger, only assuming she was sick and feeling unwell. He pulled Jiang Fenghua to sit on the bed, took off her shoes, and covered her with a blanket. "Don't go out until you're better. We can stay here for a while longer until you get better."
Xie Shang's eyes were full of concern and care for her.
She suddenly said, "I want to go home to see my parents as soon as possible. They must be very worried about me after being away for so long."
"They will be even more worried if they know you are sick. Get well before you go back, so they won't worry."
Jiang Fenghua nodded. "Mm."
"You get some rest, I'll stay here with you."
Jiang Fenghua didn't say anything more, wrapped herself in the quilt, and couldn't remember anything. She didn't even know when she fell asleep, only vaguely feeling that Xie Shang had been busy and had come to cover her with the quilt several times.
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Jiang Jinyan found Lin Yu and said, "Ruan Ruan knows that she is the Empress and that we deceived her."
Lin Yu and Bai Yuhan were living in the same room. They were both taken aback at first, but then they understood.
Bai Yuhan said, "They'll find out sooner or later. When you return to Shengjing and see Aunt Jiang and Uncle Jiang, you can't all lie to her together again, can you?"
Jiang Jinyan also thought this made sense.
Lin Yu said, "I'll go explain to her."
Jiang Jinyan stopped her, saying, "This is what I think. Since Ruan Ruan has already lost her memory, there's no need for us to tell her everything that happened before, lest she can't accept it. Besides, it was the Emperor who lied to her like that. Now we'll see how the Emperor explains it to Ruan Ruan."
Bai Yuhan smiled broadly at Jiang Jinyan, "The Emperor lied to her the most. We didn't dare tell Aruan the truth under the Emperor's pressure, so we let him explain it himself."
After the group discussed their plan, Xie Shang instructed the soldiers downstairs to pretend they knew nothing. Naturally, they wouldn't say anything; guarding the prisoners was their duty.
As for Xie Minmin, Jiang Jinyan simply had her mouth gagged and said nothing else.
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The next day, when Jiang Fenghua woke up, she found Xie Shang lying next to her. She tried to swallow, and her throat felt like it was being cut by a knife, the pain extending all the way to her ears, making her feel like she was in unbearable pain.
She felt like she had taken fake medicine yesterday, and her condition was getting worse and worse, with no improvement whatsoever. Xie Shang's hand was still on her chest, taking advantage of her without any politeness. No wonder Jiang Jinyan never stopped Xie Shang from sharing a room with her; it turned out they were already married.
He was the emperor, and she was his empress. Lin Yu took her to the Southern Kingdom to escape Xie Shang, right?
Jiang Fenghua was also completely baffled. Since she couldn't figure it out, she stopped thinking about it and watched how Xie Shang would act with her.
At this moment, Xie Shang opened his eyes. "Ruan Ruan, you're awake. Are you feeling better?"
Jiang Fenghua pointed to her throat and said in a completely hoarse voice, "No... good."
She managed to squeeze out two words, and Xie Shang quickly got up, hugged her and checked her over, "Why is your voice still hoarse? It's getting worse. What kind of quack doctor is this? I will punish him severely."
Jiang Fenghua didn't want to say a word because her throat would hurt when she spoke, and it even pulled at her head and ears, making her feel terrible. It was just a cold, how could it be so serious?
Immediately afterwards, Xie Shang shouted angrily, "Guards!"
Lin Feng heard a voice outside the door say, "Your subordinate is here."
"Go and fetch a doctor, the best doctor. Find the quack from yesterday. What medicine did he give the princess? I want to cut off his head."
Jiang Fenghua endured the pain and asked, "Why did you cut off someone's head?"
Xie Shang was too anxious. Realizing he had said the wrong thing, he said, "Stop talking. Save your energy. I won't cut off his head, but I need to find out what medicine he gave you and why it's getting worse."
Jiang Fenghua fell silent again until Lin Feng brought another doctor. The wind and snow outside were heavy, and everything was covered in white, so it took another two hours for the doctor Lin Feng brought to arrive.
The doctor took her pulse and said that she had cold air entering her body, which was not easy to cure. The weather was already very cold, so it was normal for her to be afraid of the cold. He also told her to pay attention to keeping warm and not to get cold again, etc.
Xie Shang repeatedly instructed the doctor to carefully examine and treat her, and that if he couldn't cure her illness, he should never practice medicine again.
Jiang Fenghua's voice was hoarse and she couldn't speak, but she could see clearly that Xie Shang's eyes were shooting out a cold light, which made the doctor tremble.
Jiang Jinyan, Lin Yu, and the others stood to the side, their eyes full of concern, as if it were none of their business to care at this moment.
Perhaps it was the doctor's advice that made Xie Shang stay by Jiang Fenghua's side during her convalescence. He even had someone buy her a very expensive fur coat to wear.
Jiang Fenghua's temper was softened by the medicine Xie Shang fed her spoonful by spoonful, and she didn't seem so angry about Xie Shang lying to her anymore.
Jiang Fenghua would bother him in the middle of the night, saying she was hungry, and Xie Shang would rush to the kitchen to cook porridge and noodles, keeping himself busy and happy.
She ate the noodles he cooked without a care in the world, while wondering to herself, "Is Xie Shang really the emperor? Why does he seem to enjoy whatever I do?"
Is he really that happy to take care of her?
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