Chapter 88 Causes

Duan Mingchong originally thought that Sui Yan would be fine after drinking the medicine, but after nightfall, the fever that had not subsided for a long time started to burn up again.

Jun Jingxing seemed to have expected it and had been waiting in the outer room for a long time. He vaguely heard Sui Yan's painful murmur and walked in with a gloomy face.

On the couch, Duan Mingchong was holding Sui Yan and comforting him in a low voice. He didn't know what he said. Sui Yan curled up in his arms and uttered a vague "hmm".

Jun Jingxing coughed softly and said, "I will give him acupuncture."

When Sui Yan heard the needle, his body trembled, and he rubbed into Duan Mingchong's arms again with red eyes.

Duan Mingchong patted him on the back gently and said softly, "Don't be afraid."

Sui Yan's cheeks flushed red, his eyes misty, he buried his face in Duan Ming Chong's arms, and said softly, "Hmm."

Duan Mingchong put him back on the couch and undressed him gently before turning his head and looking at Jun Jingxing indifferently, his eyes full of warning and coldness.

Jun Jingxing's lips twitched. He had always thought that the crown prince was a gentle and courteous person both inside and out. But after getting to know him for a long time, he realized that this man was not gentle at all, he just liked to pretend.

And even if she was really gentle as water, it was only towards Sui Yan.

Jun Jingxing was angry but dared not say anything. He walked forward with his eyes lowered, looked down at Sui Yan, whose cheeks were flushed with fever, and frowned.

Sui Yan half-closed his eyes, and as soon as he saw him pull out the needle, he immediately wanted to struggle.

Jun Jingxing said: "Don't move, do you think I'm going to put it in the wrong place?!"

Sui Yan was very worried and easily influenced during his illness. It might be because Duan Mingchong, the person he relied on the most, was by his side, but Jun Jingxing just talked to him as usual. He felt inexplicably aggrieved.

Duan Mingchong stretched out his hand and gently covered his eyes. He looked at Jun Jingxing almost sternly and said in a cold voice: "Pay attention to your status. Can you scold the current Marquis casually?"

Jun Jingxing: “…”

Jun Jingxing almost vomited blood, but he could see that if Duan Mingchong wanted to kill him now, he would really be merciless, so he had to swallow his anger and said: "Please don't move rashly, if you hurt other places, Jingxing can't apologize even if he dies."

Sui Yan blinked her eyes, and her feathery eyelashes brushed against Duan Mingchong's palm. The numbness and soreness spread from her fingertips along her meridians. The blinking made Duan Mingchong's heart suddenly itch.

He moved his hands unnaturally, and when he saw Jun Jingxing had already started to give acupuncture, he whispered, "Close your eyes."

Sui Yan felt the strange sensation of the silver needles piercing his body, and he became even more frightened. He blinked continuously and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm scared."

Duan Mingchong sighed helplessly.

Jun Jingxing, who was performing acupuncture at the side, wished he could poke out his own eyes. He finished the acupuncture with a pale face and beads of sweat already appearing on his forehead.

Sui Yan was always drowsy in the past few days. Even when Doctor Meng Yu came, it was Jun Jingxing who considered Sui Yan's plan and asked Doctor Meng Yu to tell His Majesty about his condition in a more serious way.

Jun Jingxing originally thought that this was just a serious illness like the ones he had suffered every winter in the past few years, and that he would be able to recover as long as he took good care of himself as before. However, he did not expect that Sui Yan would become so ill overnight, and he was only awake for a few hours every day.

Jun Jingxing was busy rescuing him and did not ask him where he had gone that day.

At this time, he finally woke up. Jun Jingxing didn't care that Duan Mingchong was beside him and asked directly: "Where did you go during the day when you were sick?"

Duan Mingchong was afraid that Sui Yan would be frightened when he saw the needles on his body, so he still put his hand in front of his eyes. He looked up and gave him a cold look when he heard the words.

"He was in Sweetwater Lane with me that day."

Jun Jingxing frowned, of course he knew that Sui Yan went to Tianshui Lane, but he had told Doctor Meng Yu before that he was frightened by the assassination attempt in Tianshui Lane. However, he knew very well that with Sui Yan's carefree personality, no matter how many assassins went to assassinate him, he would not be frightened to this extent.

"What else?"

Duan Mingchong frowned, dissatisfied with Jun Jingxing's rude and arbitrary question.

Sui Yan whispered, "I went to a hunting ground and froze in the snow for about a quarter of an hour wearing only a single layer of clothing."

He reached out and gently touched Duan Mingchong's hand. Duan Mingchong was a little worried, but after thinking about it, he let go.

Sui Yanyu's eyelashes were stained with water drops. He looked at Jun Jingxing blankly and said, "Also, Duan Ruwang lit the medicinal incense you gave to Duan Xichen in the carriage, but I overturned it and covered it with clothes after I saw it, so he didn't inhale much."

Jun Jingxing paused and looked at him in disbelief: "How long did he order?"

Sui Yan couldn't explain.

Only then did Jun Jingxing know the cause of his illness.

He glared at Sui Yan with a look of hatred, and said through gritted teeth: "You also caught up with Duan Ruwang's carriage, do you think you didn't die quickly enough?"

Although these words had a scolding tone, Duan Mingchong unexpectedly did not get angry. Instead, he somewhat agreed with Jun Jingxing's words and looked at Sui Yan with dissatisfaction.

Sui Yan hesitated and said, "I...I don't know."

At that time, he was only thinking about talking to Duan Ruwang and leaving, and he didn't think too much about knocking over the incense. Who knew that that small piece of incense would become his death warrant.

The culprit Duan Ruwang never expected that he would almost eliminate Duan Mingchong's biggest weakness just by lighting incense on a whim.

Jun Jingxing looked at him coldly. Sui Yan was afraid that he would poke him again, so he carefully pulled Duan Mingchong, tilted his head and coughed twice, his eyes red.

When Duan Mingchong saw him like this, he had no idea how to write the word "angry".

He raised his eyes slightly and glanced at Jun Jingxing, saying calmly: "He just inhaled a little bit of the medicinal fragrance and became so ill. If he uses your medicinal fragrance again, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive and will be dying. If you can't even see this, what kind of doctor are you?"

Although Jun Jingxing was an expert in medicine, he was not able to accurately determine the cause of the disease by simply taking the pulse, and he could not have imagined that Sui Yan would accidentally come into contact with the fatal medicine.

Jun Jingxing instinctively wanted to refute, but recalling the frightening look on Duan Mingchong's face when he forbade him to use medicinal incense to treat Sui Yan, he swallowed his words back with difficulty.

He stood up and said, "I'll come over to take out the needle in about half an hour. Stay still and don't move."

Sui Yan nodded obediently.

Jun Jingxing then turned and left.

Sui Yan's attention had just been on Jun Jingxing. When he came to his senses, he caught a glimpse of the needles on his body. He immediately let out a weak "ah" and scratched around with his hands: "Your Highness!"

Duan Mingchong hurriedly extended his hand, and Sui Yan grabbed his slender knuckles and put them over his eyes to block them. His slightly cold hands were shaking slightly.

Sui Yanhun's body was swollen, and his fingertips were cold for some reason. Duan Mingchong held his fingertips and closed them in his palm, saying softly, "Don't sleep yet. Take out the needle first."

Sui Yan blinked and said, "I'm not asleep."

Although he said he wasn't going to sleep, Sui Yan wasn't in good spirits. He held Duan Mingchong's hand for a while and then dropped it.

Duan Mingchong gently moved his hand away, and saw Sui Yan's face was pale, and he had fallen asleep without knowing when.

Duan Mingchong was afraid that he might suddenly turn over, so he had to sit next to him and stare at him intently.

However, after staring at Sui Yan's face for too long, Duan Mingchong suddenly felt that he looked a little strange.

He knew Sui Yan was beautiful since he was a child, but he never thought that one day they would fall in love with each other and their status would change from close friends to the person he admired.

Duan Mingchong stared at him in astonishment for a long while before muttering, "He is mine."

Perhaps that fleeting and stunning glance when they were young had already determined the fate of the two people.

Half an hour later, Jun Jingxing came over with a pot of wine, removed the needle neatly, and said, "If you have a fever again at night, rub your body with strong liquor, and it won't be a big deal by morning."

Duan Ming Chongzheng fastened Sui Yan's open collar without looking away, and nodded nonchalantly when he heard the words.

Jun Jingxing was afraid of seeing something he shouldn't see, so he dropped his wine and ran out.

Perhaps because of the acupuncture, Sui Yan did not have a fever that night and slept until morning. Although he was still listless, he felt much better than before.

Knowing the cause of Sui Yan's illness, Jun Jingxing was no longer like a headless fly, not knowing where to start. On the third day, he came up with a new prescription, boiled out a bunch of medicine, and fed Sui Yan so much that his face turned green.

But at least it worked.

And Duan Mingchong, as he promised, stayed with Sui Yan until New Year's Eve, when he was recalled by the emperor's imperial edict.

Before Duan Mingchong left, his brows were furrowed and he looked extremely reluctant, but the palace maid who delivered the order had been kneeling in the yard, so he had no choice but to accept the order.

"I will be back soon."

The palace maids nodded hurriedly.

Duan Mingchong stuffed the imperial edict into his sleeve and tilted his head to glance into the inner room.

Jun Jingxing was feeding Sui Yan medicine. As soon as Sui Yan regained a little strength, he started to make a fuss. Sometimes he said it was too hot, sometimes he said Jun Jingxing was too rough. Anyway, as long as it wasn't Duan Mingchong feeding the medicine, he would find a lot of faults.

Jun Jingxing resisted the urge to hit him and said through gritted teeth, "Drink it if you want."

Sui Yan: "Your Highness, there are people here... um..."

Jun Jingxing stuffed the spoon into his mouth to block it, and forced a smile, which looked sly no matter how you looked at it: "My Lord, please drink the medicine. If there is anything wrong, please tell me and I will correct it."

Sui Yan bit the spoon and mumbled, "Why do you look so afraid of the prince? What did he do to you?"

Jun Jingxing pulled out the spoon, lowered his eyes and said calmly: "No, you are wrong."

Sui Yan still felt it was a bit strange, and tilted his head to look at him for a long time before he said, "Then why did the prince suddenly talk about using medicinal incense a few days ago?"

Seeing that he kept asking questions, Jun Jingxing thought it was too troublesome to feed him spoonful by spoonful, so he handed the bowl to Sui Yan and said expressionlessly, "Drink all this in one gulp, and I'll tell you."

Sui Yan said without blinking, "Just drink all this in one gulp, and I won't complain to the prince."

Jun Jingxing: “…”

Jun Jingxing had no choice but to swallow his anger and feed him mouthful by mouthful, whispering: "You almost died a few days ago. I said I would use medicinal incense to save your life, but the prince was unwilling."

Sui Yan was stunned, biting the spoon for a long time before he said sincerely: "It's all thanks to him. If you really use the medicinal incense on me, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost."

Jun Jingxing was a little annoyed: "He said he wanted to kill me, but didn't I want to save you at the time? What's wrong with that?"

Sui Yan looked at Jun Jingxing, who had his eyes downcast and an inexplicably aggrieved look on his face, and suddenly thought of Yue Jian, who was filled with sadness and despair in his previous life.

Yue Jian had long since stopped practicing medicine out of revenge. Apart from treating Sui Wanggui, all the medicines he developed were deadly poisons. The old emperor died from his poison without anyone noticing.

Yue Jian was never on guard against Sui Wanggui, so she didn't avoid him when making poison, and Sui Wanggui easily got a bottle of poison.

Sui Wangui fell seriously ill after returning from Canglin Temple and almost died. By then, he had lost the desire to live, but Yue Jian still managed to pull him back from the brink of death.

Sui Yan thought back to his reaction at that time - after he woke up, he threw all the things on the bedside table with a sullen face. Yue Jian stood in the mess, with a look of despair and unwillingness to admit defeat on his cold face.

Knowing it is wrong, but still doing it.

Sui Yan looked at Yue Jian in astonishment and said, "You are not wrong."

Jun Jingxing snorted coldly: "Of course I am right."

Sui Yan chuckled and did not bother Jun Jingxing any more. He picked up the medicine and drank it all in one gulp.

Outside the pearl curtain, Duan Mingchong looked coldly at the two people who seemed to be talking happily, and the coldness on his face almost overflowed.

He did not understand his own feelings before. When he saw these two people going in and out together all day long and Jun Jingxing often staying in the Marquis' Mansion, Duan Mingchong did not think it was a big deal. But now it seems that Tongshun Yan's status has changed. When he saw the two of them smiling at each other from a distance, he felt glaring and inexplicably unhappy.

But Duan Mingchong was used to wearing the mask of gentleness and could not take it off for a while, and he did not want to expose his cruel and cold side in front of Sui Yan, so he could only walk in as if nothing had happened and said, "Ayan, have you finished drinking the medicine?"

Sui Yan nodded, looked outside, and asked in confusion: "Someone's coming to the palace?"

Duan Mingchong said, "Well, I have stayed in the Marquis' Mansion for too long. It is a great favor that my father has allowed me to go back now. I am sorry that I am afraid I can't accompany you today."

Sui Yan felt a little disappointed, but he didn't show it. He pretended to be relaxed and said, "Will you come over tomorrow?"

Duan Mingchong smiled and said, "You don't have to attend the morning court tomorrow, I will come over naturally."

Sui Yan's eyes narrowed then.

The two of them chatted with each other as if no one was around, completely ignoring Jun Jingxing who was looking pale beside them.

After a while, the palace maid waiting outside urged him again, and Duan Mingchong reluctantly stood up and said goodbye.

Jun Jingxing stood up and was about to see him off on behalf of Sui Yan, but before he could step forward, he was given a cold glance by Duan Mingchong.

Jun Jingxing: “…”

Sui Yan didn't notice Duan Mingchong's look and was still waving at him: "Your Highness, come here."

Duan Mingchong turned around, still smiling at Sui Yan with his unique warmth and warmth. He walked to the side of the couch and leaned forward slightly: "What's the matter?"

Sui Yan put his arms around his neck and pulled him down a little, then kissed the corner of his lips with a smile.

"I'll wait for you."

Duan Mingchong was stunned for a moment, and then his ears suddenly turned red.

Jun Jingxing: “…”

Oh God save me, my eyes are going blind!