Chapter 52 Once on the Pirate Ship, There's No Escape
The sound from outside the door interrupted his reverie.
"Your Highness, Steward Sun couldn't withstand the thirty strokes of the cane and has died." It was Eunuch Anxi's voice.
"Hmm," Pei Siyan replied calmly.
Dou Wenyi was stunned and terrified, vaguely wondering if it was because of the poison she had given to Granny Sun that she had taken her life.
She immediately dismissed this absurd idea; Pei Siyan was punishing her, and it certainly wasn't because of her.
Dou Wenyi was overwhelmed with mixed feelings. Just a moment ago, Steward Sun was arrogant and domineering, but the next moment he was dead.
It seems that the Eastern Palace is no place for a human being. She needs to cure his illness as soon as possible and can't get involved with him any longer.
Seemingly sensing her low spirits, Pei Siyan half-closed his eyes and said in an unusually cold voice, "What, do you pity her?"
There are spies everywhere in the Eastern Palace. They think Dou Wenyi is a newly appointed lady-in-waiting and want to use her to murder him.
If she hadn't been extremely lucky, she probably would have already placed that poisoned medicinal dish on her own table and plotted to murder the crown prince. Even if she had a hundred mouths, she wouldn't be able to explain herself.
They were being used as pawns without even realizing it; truly, fools have all the luck!
Pei Siyan didn't intend to tell her the inside story of this matter; he would let her guess.
Dou Wenyi's silver needles slowed for a moment before she heard him continue, "In the future, when you come to the East Palace, go directly to Chiyan. You don't need to pay attention to the rest of the irrelevant people."
"Hmm." She responded faintly. If she had a choice, she would rather never come to the East Palace again.
A short while later, Dou Wenyi put away the golden needles one after another. At the same time, Pei Siyan sat up and stretched out his arms, clearly waiting for someone to help him change his clothes.
She was just a doctor, not his bedchamber maid. What more did he want?
Dou Wenyi looked embarrassed, staring at the floor with her eyes downcast, her voice barely audible, "Your Highness, please forgive me, I need to relieve myself..."
After saying that, she didn't care whether he agreed or not and hurriedly ran to the bathroom on the side.
Pei Siyan was only wearing a pair of underpants. He slowly turned around, his gaze, which had an ambiguous meaning, falling on the woman's slender waist.
Just then, a knocking sound came from outside the door.
Eunuch Anxi asked, "Your Highness, His Majesty has sent Chief Physician Hu from the Imperial Medical Academy to examine you. Should you refuse?"
“No need!” Pei Siyan’s eyes were deep and unhurried. He took out an exquisite jade bottle from a box under the small sandalwood desk, poured out a dark red pill, and swallowed it in one gulp.
Outside the Chaohua Hall.
The eunuch was wrapping a female corpse in a straw mat and dragging it out, leaving a bright red bloodstain on the floor.
Hu, the head of the hospital, trembled slightly as he gripped the medicine box, his legs shaking. It wasn't that he was timid; the scene was simply too horrifying...
"Dr. Hu, this way please!"
Hu Yuanshou snapped out of his daze and followed Chi Yan into the hall. Dou Wenyi, seeing someone enter the hall, had no choice but to hide behind the screen.
After carefully examining your pulse, Chief Physician Hu looked worried. "Your Highness, your old ailment seems to have worsened. Has the frequency of your headaches increased?"
Dou Wenyi's pupils suddenly contracted. This was clearly not the case when she checked his pulse just now!
Pei Siyan had changed into a sky-blue brocade robe, his black hair adorned with a jade crown, and a glint of brilliance hidden in his narrow eyes. "It was indeed more serious before, and it would flare up once every one or two days."
Chief Hu sighed, his tone filled with guilt, "It's just that my skills are not good enough to cure Your Highness's illness."
"These are all old ailments of mine. You've already prescribed hundreds of prescriptions, and you've done your best. I don't blame you." Pei Siyan glanced at the screen with a self-deprecating smile, his slender fingers tapping the table lightly, his every move exuding elegance.
Dou Wenyi's heart tightened, knowing that he must have seen her, and she shrank back in fright.
"Your Highness must not be discouraged. If we can find the divine physician Ge in Lincang Mountain, we might be able to find a way to detoxify him..." Chief Hu's old eyes were glistening with tears.
Pei Siyan didn't care at all, "Life and death are predestined, and life is unpredictable. You don't need to worry."
Hu, suppressing the stinging in his eyes, wrote the medical record with trembling hands. His lips trembled as he hesitated, wanting to say something but ultimately saying nothing. He then picked up his medicine box and took his leave.
The palace doors closed, and silence returned to the room.
Dou Wenyi was incredulous, her expression changing repeatedly. Had she made a mistake in taking his pulse?
"Aren't you coming out yet?" His voice was deep and magnetic.
Dou Wenyi snapped out of her daze, rushed over, grabbed his wrist, and examined him closely.
A moment later, her eyes widened in shock. "Your pulse has changed?"
The doctor who came to see me just now was from the Imperial Medical Academy. Could it be that Pei Siyan deliberately ate something to change his pulse?
To lull them into a false sense of reality?
Dou Wenyi then thought of his illness; the toxin had been lurking in his body for years, accumulating little by little over the years.
A terrifying thought quietly arose: Could the person who wanted him dead be in the palace?
"you......"
"No doubt about it, your Nine Immortals Jade Dew Pills are effective." Pei Siyan's lips curled into a mocking smile, his words carrying a hidden meaning.
Even so, he would not allow himself to recover.
After all, Emperor Muzong wanted to remain the crown prince who was "dying soon".
"Why?" Dou Wenyi asked in surprise, instantly realizing that he had indeed taken a pill that altered his pulse.
"Great Zhou, there are many who wish me dead!" Pei Siyan's narrow eyes flashed with an eerie light, his tone cold and indifferent, as if he were discussing someone else's life or death.
Is it Prince Rui and Consort Tan?
Or someone else?
"What should I do? Miss Dou, you know so many of my secrets..." Pei Siyan stared at her intently with great interest.
Dou Wenyi felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, her fingers trembling slightly, as if she had been tricked.
She had no desire to know such a deadly secret; if she dared to utter even a single word, Pei Siyan would be the first to take her life.
Pei Siyan chuckled, "Considering how hard you've worked today, shouldn't you give me a reward? Like, maybe get your older brother Dou Mingxiu released from prison sooner."
Dou Wenyi paused, suddenly remembering that he had said the same thing when he kissed her last time. After that, they took advantage of the incident of Prince Duan falling from his horse to expose the affair between Xie Guidu and Dou Mingyan.
She made curing his headaches a condition for breaking off the engagement, and he kept his word.
So what is he planning to do this time?
"This humble woman dares not have such presumptuous thoughts," Dou Wenyi coldly replied, leaving the 'credit' to Dou Mingyan.
Life is like a journey, and she is just a traveler.
But that doesn't mean she can forgive the person who wanted to take her life!
......
Dou Wenyi remained calm and quietly returned to Yilan Courtyard late at night with slightly swollen lips, so no one noticed anything unusual.
She leaned lazily against the tub wall, her whole body immersed in the warm water, and the domineering and ruthless force of Pei Siyan still seemed to linger on her lips.
Even though she didn't want to get involved in the court's intrigues, ever since she caught him using Five Stone Powder, it seemed like she was doomed.
He was drugged with aphrodisiacs in the palace, and that's when he saw her fragrant shoulders. They even had physical intimacy. And now... how long will this clandestine relationship continue?
Can we please end this sooner?!
Dou Mingyan is his Crown Princess. Even if he develops feelings for her that he shouldn't have, he can't surpass Dou Mingyan.
She didn't want to grovel at Dou Mingyan's feet, didn't want to kneel before her, and even less did she want to share a husband with her. So how could she possibly escape this quagmire?
Pei Siyan was bloodthirsty, cruel, and unpredictable, and his troubles were far greater than she had imagined; she couldn't afford to get any deeper involved.
The next day.
"girl......"
Cuizhi ran all the way to the alchemy room of Yilan Courtyard, looking anxious. "Miss, in the front courtyard, Lady Xue, the wife of Marquis Dingyuan... has come with people to break off the engagement."
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