Yuan Zhan was somewhat resistant to Shen Qiyin's advances.
As soon as she reached out, he kept backing away.
Xiao Yan stood next to Shen Qiyin, also worried that Yuan Zhan might accidentally hurt her in his panic.
The person who brought Yuan Zhan back said, "His Highness the Crown Prince is very wary of people. We brought him back all the way here because we were afraid he wouldn't cooperate and would leak the news. So we stayed in caves and dilapidated temples."
"When it was necessary to rest at an inn, we had no choice but to use sleeping pills to knock people unconscious."
Otherwise, if someone notices and it gets back to His Majesty's ears, things will be terrible.
Since Yuan Zhan resisted, Shen Qiyin couldn't force him to take his pulse. On the fourth day, she suggested giving him some more sleeping pills, but she refused, saying, "Using too much of that stuff will damage your brain."
Upon hearing this, Chu Si immediately changed his mind: "Then let's not use it."
His Highness the Crown Prince is already mentally unstable; if he gets injured again, he might become even more insane than he is now.
Shen Qiyin and Xiao Yan stood side by side in front of Yuan Zhan. After staring at him for a while, the "young couple" suddenly turned their gazes to Ren Dong without prior arrangement.
The latter tilted his head, indicating his confusion.
Shen Qiyin smiled and suddenly pulled Ren Dong into her arms, pushing her in front of Yuan Zhan.
She leaned close to her ear and whispered, "He seems to know you."
She had just noticed that he seemed to be staring at the honeysuckle.
Ren Dong wasn't sure if he recognized her as someone who used to be from the village, after all, her current fair and clean appearance was completely different from her former thin and withered appearance.
Not to mention him, who was already mentally unstable and insane, even her clear-headed uncle and aunt could only complain that they had mistaken her for someone else when they saw her.
What no one expected was that when Ren Dong approached him, Yuan Zhan not only did not avoid her as he did when facing Shen Qiyin, but even spoke to her!
"Warfare is based on deception."
"There are no fixed formations in warfare, just as water has no fixed shape. One who can adapt to the enemy's changes and win is called a master strategist."
"The morale of the army can be taken away, and the heart of the general can be captured. Therefore, the spirit is sharp in the morning, sluggish at midday, and returns to its waning at dusk..."
He paused abruptly as he spoke.
He stared intently at Honeysuckle.
The latter thought for a moment, then continued, "A skilled strategist avoids the enemy's sharpest attack and strikes when they are weary and retreating; this is the art of controlling morale."
As she finished speaking, Yuan Zhan seemed to smile and patted Ren Dong's head approvingly.
This reminded her of when he used to teach a group of children to memorize these things in the countryside, and he would often pat them on the head as encouragement after they memorized them correctly.
It seems he does remember her after all.
"Old Crazy..." Ren Dong subconsciously wanted to call him as she used to, but let alone his true identity as the Crown Prince, his age was not really "old," so she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue.
Ren Dong pointed to Shen Qiyin and said to Yuan Zhan, "She is my older sister. She knows medicine. How about letting her take your pulse?"
As she spoke, she tentatively took Yuan Zhan's hand.
He did not resist.
Even after Shen Qiyin's hand took his place, he did not dodge as he had before.
Seeing this, Chu Si and the others breathed a sigh of relief.
However, as Chen Qiyin probed Yuan Zhan's pulse, her delicate eyebrows furrowed more and more tightly.
Yuan Zhan's body is really in bad shape.
As Shen Qiyin withdrew her hand, Xiao Yan immediately asked, "Qinyin, how is the Crown Prince?"
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