Sikong Zhan naturally sat down on the stool beside Lin Jinghan's bed and asked casually, "How is the princess's condition?"
Feeling the temperature around her suddenly drop, Lin Jinghan pulled the quilt over herself and for a moment she didn't know how to talk to her nominal husband.
Guessing the prince was asking him, Ran Zizhen immediately replied, "Don't worry, your highness. The princess's leg is fine now. With daily acupuncture, she'll be able to get out of bed in four or five days at most. However, I still need to study the poison the princess has contracted. However, the poison isn't fatal for now and is still within control."
"Get out! Don't bother the princess unless necessary." Sikong Zhan patiently listened to Doctor Ran's chatter. When he was sure that a doctor was not needed here for the time being, he immediately started to drive the man away without any intention of demolishing the bridge after crossing it.
Who dared to touch Lin Jinghan's hand? Even if he didn't care about this princess, as long as she was his princess, she was his property. No man was allowed to touch her, not even once!
Fortunately, because Lin Jinghan covered her legs in time, Sikong Zhan didn't know that when Lin Jinghan was giving acupuncture, Ran Zizhen stared at Lin Jinghan's legs for a long time. Otherwise, Doctor Ran would probably be in a very miserable situation...
Ran Zizhen had no idea how he had offended Prince Jingnan. After leaving Lin Jinghan's courtyard, he was still confused...
Lin Jinghan and Sikong Zhan were the only two people left in the room. Lin Jinghan felt a little uncomfortable, but she never kept things to herself, so she was the first to speak and break the silence in the room:
"My Lord, you saved me?"
She originally wanted to ask who the man in the wheelchair was, but when she saw the frosty face of Prince Jingnan, she couldn't ask at all.
Although she really couldn't think of anyone else who could save her in this situation except Prince Jingnan, but since Prince Jingnan walked in, it seemed that the person in the wheelchair should not be Prince Jingnan.
Asking a man about another man's situation in front of him is courting death.
"Besides this king, who else do you think will save you? In this capital, and even in the entire East Lin, the only one you can rely on is this king."
Sikong Zhan stared into Lin Jinghan's eyes. The tone of his voice and the way he looked at her made her look like he was giving her alms, which made Lin Jinghan want to beat him up!
This is probably what the legend means, "too mean-spirited"?
"Oh, thank you." Lin Jinghan laughed out of anger and said thank you almost through gritted teeth.
若不是因为这个男人，非要娶林相嫡长女，她现在还跟爹爹和弟弟在一起，过着自由自在、无拘无束的生活，哪里需要来京城趟这趟浑水？他明明是始作俑者，这会儿还摆出这副样子，简直欠揍！
But when she thought about her current inconvenience in walking, and the fact that it was not shameful to bow one's head under someone's roof, the smile on her face deepened. "If your Highness has nothing else to do, please leave. I want to rest."
"Didn't you just wake up? You want to rest already?" Sikong Zhan frowned and looked Lin Jinghan up and down, "Is it because you were poisoned?" Is Ran Zizhen's medical skills reliable?
No, no, no, Your Highness, you are overthinking it. I simply don't want to see that annoying mouth of yours, lest I can't help but slap you!
Lin Jinghan complained furiously in her heart, but she maintained a smile on her face and said "gently": "Don't worry, Your Majesty. This poison can't stop me."
At this time, Tang Xun stood at the door and called out "Prince" with great concern.
Sikong Zhan probably guessed why Tang Xun came to see him. He stood up and looked down at Lin Jinghan. His tone was as stern and cold as ever:
"From now on, no matter when or where, do not embarrass this prince. The Jingnan Palace does not need a humiliating princess."
What? Are you ashamed of me? The Emperor and the Empress Dowager are targeting me for no apparent reason. How can I possibly stand up to them? Frankly, I'm not familiar with them, and I have no grudge against them. They're being targeted because of you, Prince Jingnan!
Lin Jinghan's eyes widened as she looked at Sikong Zhan's departing back in disbelief. She was so angry that she made a threatening gesture towards his back.
Sikong Zhan seemed to have sensed something and suddenly stopped, turning his head slightly to look in Lin Jinghan's direction.
Lin Jinghan quickly withdrew her hand, closed her eyes, and pretended to rest...
Sikong Zhan just found it funny, shook his head, and didn't bother with Lin Jinghan, and walked away.
As Sikong Zhan expected, the emperor sent someone to question him, and Tang Xun came to him for this matter.
Sikong Zhan was not in a hurry to enter the palace. Instead, he calmly wrote a memorial and put it into his sleeve along with a piece of letter paper. Then he got on the wheelchair, which was pushed by Tang Xun, and got on the carriage, which slowly drove towards the palace.
"Your Highness." Prince Jingnan was still sitting in his wheelchair. He bowed in the direction of the emperor and had no intention of standing up to salute.
Fortunately, Tang Xun, who was pushing the wheelchair, bowed respectfully, so the situation was not too awkward.
In fact, Prince Jingnan had never paid homage to the emperor when he was still the crown prince; since the emperor ascended the throne, Prince Jingnan had been fighting with the Nanzhao Kingdom. After returning to Beijing, he was poisoned and paralyzed in bed. This was the first time the new emperor met Prince Jingnan.
Even after becoming the emperor, he still couldn't let Prince Jingnan pay him full respect. The emperor wanted to get angry and punish Prince Jingnan for disrespect, but when he saw that Sikong Zhan was in a wheelchair and really couldn't get up, using this reason to embarrass him would make him seem unkind. So he had to suppress his unhappiness temporarily. Anyway, he had plenty of ways to make Prince Jingnan bow his head.
"Prince Jingnan, do you admit your guilt?" The emperor started questioning right away, and it was obvious that he could not wait any longer.
"I have been recuperating from my illness. I wonder what crime I have committed?" Sikong Zhan directly passed the buck to the emperor. The emperor wanted to find fault with him and let him bring it up himself. He was dreaming.
"Today, you forcibly took Princess Jingnan away from the Imperial Garden, who had not yet been punished, and disobeyed the emperor's order in public. Do you know your crime?" The emperor had already laid out the plan and was now waiting to close it. The aura of a superior suddenly burst out from his body. This was the first time that he felt so proud in front of Prince Jingnan. The emperor was so happy.
"I wonder what my princess did wrong that on the second day of her wedding, when she went to the palace to express her gratitude, she was not only poisoned but also forced to kneel."
What? Poisoned? Could it be that the antidote was too low? Did Sikong Zhan discover that he had poisoned Lin Jinghan? The emperor stood up suddenly, wary of Sikong Zhan, and said to him:
"Princess Jingnan was perfectly fine, how could she have been poisoned? Could it be that Prince Jingnan wanted to exonerate the princess and deliberately fabricated the facts?"
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