"Your Highness, Your Highness!" Lian Xin, the personal maid of Concubine Shan, ran in hurriedly. She entered the bedroom and whispered in Concubine Shan's ear, then lowered her voice and said, "A folk musician came from somewhere outside the palace and played a song for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness woke up! I heard from the people in the Imperial Medical Bureau that he will soon be fully recovered!"
"Really? God is truly kind to you." Shan Hui raised her eyebrows and said words of congratulation, but a cold light flashed in her eyes.
"Oh, sister, what should we do?" Shan Hui's elder sister Shan Lan happened to come to the palace to visit. When she heard the news brought by the maid, she felt anxious: "Sister, you must make good plans for the Second Prince..."
Shan Hui has a son who is only thirteen years old this year and is the second among the emperor's sons.
"I want to see which musician has such great abilities. Does he have three heads and six arms?" Concubine Shan snorted and said, "Let's go. I'm going to Yuanheng Palace to visit the empress and the prince."
"No, Your Majesty!" Lian Xin tried to dissuade him: "I heard from Eunuch An that the musician has a strange temper and is most afraid of women! If there are women present, he will not be able to play the music. If Your Majesty goes there and interrupts his performance, what will His Majesty do if he blames you?"
"There are people with such a quirk in the world? I don't believe it." Concubine Shan was surprised, but she changed her mind and came up with a plan: "Lianxin, send someone to inform Xu Zhaorong's maid and tell her that the prince has woken up. As for the musician's quirk of being afraid of women, there is no need to say more."
"My sister's plan is really brilliant." Shan Lan clapped her hands and laughed. "Xu Zhaorong has always been simple-minded and rash. As soon as she heard the news that the Crown Prince had woken up, she would definitely go to Yuanheng Palace to congratulate him in order to please the Queen! As long as she ran into the musician, Tsk tsk... And even if His Majesty blames someone, he will only blame Xu Zhaorong, and will never find out about my sister! Even if he finds out, he will just say that it was the maid who leaked the news."
Yuanheng Palace
The sky was already bright and the sun was high in the sky.
"System reminder: Your current body movements are very awkward." The system is taking pleasure in the misfortune.
Need you tell me? Li Yuebai was furious.
The eunuchs had thoughtfully laid a fine, thin bamboo mat on the floor beside the prince's bed, and on top of that a fox fur quilt. It looked like it was very comfortable, but he was sitting on the floor with his arms stretched out and someone was holding his wrists tightly for an hour! How could he not feel uncomfortable? How could he not feel awkward?
During this time, he also read the original work carefully and sorted out the emotional lines.
In the original novel, it is not written that Yun Weizhi has any "love" feelings for Murong Nan. From the beginning to the end, he always treated him as a friend and a sworn brother.
After Yun Weizhi's death, Murong Nan fell in love with him to death, and was even obsessed with him, and even found a bunch of innocent people to be his substitutes. However, when Yun Weizhi was alive, Murong Nan was still young and had experienced too many court struggles, so she did not have time to fall in love with him, or maybe she had already fallen in love with him but didn't know it.
In the original novel, when the two broke up in Ningzhou, they almost broke up.
Yun Weizhi was well aware of the dangers in the palace and advised Murong Nanyuan to stay away.
Murong Nan, however, is determined to return for revenge and take back everything that belongs to him. He blames Yun Weizhi for being too cold-hearted, not understanding him, and not willing to support him.
The separation between the two was actually not on good terms.
As a single man, Li Yuebai really has no idea what this love life thing is all about. The more he thinks about it, the more confused he becomes.
At this time, a woman's voice came from the door: "Your Majesty, the Queen, I heard that the Crown Prince is getting better, so I came to visit."
The emperor nodded slightly, and the woman, supported by her maid, walked into the hall, twisting her waist.
"Xu Zhaorong arrived really early." Eunuch An joked.
"Hey, eunuch, I was worried about the Empress and the Crown Prince, so I came here as soon as I heard the news." Xu Zhaorong smiled and said, "Is that the zither player who is said to have the power to bring the dead back to life?"
Li Yuebai just turned his head to look at Xu Zhaorong's face and immediately reacted within one second.
Yes, my setting seems to be "100% afraid of women"!
In order to avoid the Empress Dowager, he made up this quirk, and as a result he was very well protected, with eunuchs serving him all around him, and not even a maid in the palace. He was very lonely when he couldn't see beautiful women, but when he saw them, he had to pretend.
There was a loud thud, and Li Yuebai fainted cleanly.
"Xu Zhaorong, you have good intentions, but you came at a bad time." Eunuch An explained with a fake smile: "This musician has a quirk and cannot stand the sight of women..."
"Ah? You said I scared him and made him pass out?" Xu Zhaorong glared at him, her face full of anger. Then she realized that she had gotten into trouble and quickly knelt down to apologize: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I didn't mean to do that. I really didn't know!"
The emperor's face turned pale. He originally thought that the musician's so-called quirk was just an excuse, but he didn't expect it to be so precise. He fainted as soon as he said it, and it was not a crime of deceiving the emperor at all.
The imperial physician came up and felt Li Yuebai's pulse and said that there was nothing wrong with him.
Xu Zhaorong was sent out crying by Eunuch An. The emperor also had to take care of government affairs, so he ordered Guan Tie and others to protect the prince well and drove away.
For a moment, in the huge Yuanheng Palace, apart from the imperial doctors, eunuchs and guards, there were only Murong Nan and Li Yuebai, and both of them were lying flat.
Li Yuebai felt very relieved knowing that Tie was there. Besides, the fox fur was really thick and warm, and the brocade quilt was really light and smooth. His body was originally weak, and after several nights of running around, he was already exhausted. After a while, he fell into a deep sleep.
When I woke up, I saw the afterglow of the setting sun filling the room.
Li Yuebai stretched and felt sore all over.
He turned over and turned to the side, and he saw - His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was lying next to him.
Why are you lying on the floor instead of sleeping on the bed? Maybe you have a bad sleeping posture and accidentally rolled down?
Fortunately, the Crown Prince finally let go. Li Yuebai rubbed his wrist, which was almost bruised, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was awakened by him again.
The look on Murong Nan's face when he opened his eyes made Li Yuebai feel like he was watching a movie, a 3D dreamlike fantasy movie with a dragon and a princess. The princess was a peerless beauty with a pair of bright eyes and eyelashes fluttering like butterfly wings, while the dragon was dark and terrifying, and when he blinked his eyes he was like opening the door to hell... Li Yuebai always suggested that students increase their vocabulary and come up with some fancy words to deceive the examination teachers, but when he saw Murong Nan's eyes, he himself was at a loss for words, and his mind was full of - this child is a complete combination of a dragon and a princess!
Murong Nan's eyes were very beautiful, and the color of his pupils was a bottomless black. Li Yuebai stared at them for a moment, and felt that there was a vortex inside, which could instantly suck him in - is this the look a 17-year-old boy should have? Even if he had experienced palace struggles since birth, it shouldn't be so unfathomable, right?
Before he could figure out how to greet him, Li Yuebai felt his whole world turned upside down - His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so rude and approached him directly, looking down at him, with a hint of a smile on his thin lips.
Well, she is indeed only seventeen years old. This smile is no different from the silly look of the boys in school who are in love.
"Forty-two." Murong Nan looked straight into Li Yuebai's eyes and pronounced the number carefully, word by word.
"What...what?" Li Yuebai didn't understand at all. Is waking up and reporting the number a custom of the nobles in the Great Duan Dynasty?
"Forty-two." Murong Nan repeated it again, and stared at Li Yuebai with his beautiful black eyes, as if he wanted to burn out flames with his gaze.
System! Where's the system! Urgent help! What the hell does forty-two mean? Waiting online, urgent!
"Today is the forty-second day since Murong Nan and Yun Weizhi parted ways." The system explained with a gloating look.
Damn, Murong Nan is such a good math kid! He still remembers math even when he was unconscious! Li Yue burst into tears.
You have to stay calm at a time like this. Stay calm. Yun Weizhi is a man with the aura of a male god and should not be underestimated.
"It has been forty-two days since we last met. How is Your Highness the Crown Prince doing in the palace?" Li Yuebai said softly with a nonchalant smile.
"Good?" Murong Nan's expression immediately turned cold: "How can it be good without you?"
WTF, why did this naughty kid do this? Didn't you want to go back to the palace for revenge?
"Your Highness, please respect yourself. So many people are watching." Human lives were at stake, and Li Yuebai could not care about the fragile heart of a naughty child. If it was rumored that he had an affair with the emperor, he would not only be cuckolded, but also accused of seducing the prince. He hurriedly reminded him, "If it gets out, it will damage your reputation."
In fact, there were not many people around, just a few personal eunuchs, and no palace maids.
"Don't be afraid, they dare not say anything." Murong Nan did not let go, but held Li Yuebai tightly and buried his face in his shoulders.
Where is the original author? Original author, I want to talk to you about the relationship line! Li Yuebai was frozen, wanting to cry but unable to. What happened to the promise that "Murong Nan only realized how much she loved Yun Weizhi after he died"? Now it seems like this, who would believe if she said she didn't already love him deeply?
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was actually crying.
My shoulders felt hot and soon became wet.
Li Yuebai also wanted to cry. What was going on? Why did a single person like me have to go through such a horrible Shura field?
Fortunately, rescuers arrived quickly.
There was a respectful knock on the door: "Your Highness, it's time to take the medicine."
It was the voice of a young eunuch. Li Yuebai had long remembered this young eunuch. His name was Ding Xian. He was a famous extra in the supporting roles. Like the concubines' personal maids, he was a high-level extra.
Murong Nan finally let Li Yuebai go.
Ding Xian came in respectfully holding a tray with a bowl of medicine, an empty bowl, and a silver spoon for testing poison on it.
Everything that the royal nobility consumed had to go through numerous poison testing procedures, and this bowl of medicine had obviously been tested countless times. In front of the prince, Ding Xian poured the bowl of medicine into two bowls, drank one of the bowls himself, and then tested the remaining bowl with a silver spoon before serving it to him.
"No need, I'm fine." Murong Nan suddenly said in a cold voice: "This bowl of medicine will be given to Brother Yun."
WTF
Li Yuebai didn't expect there would be such a turn of events.
My attitude towards His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just now was really too cold. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was obviously angry. When he was angry, he threw a tantrum and refused to take the medicine. He also squeezed me and forced me to take the medicine for him. Sure enough, his age was once again confirmed.
Forget it, he's already recovered, so if he doesn't want to drink it, then don't drink it. This medicine isn't poisonous anyway, it's just a little bitter, so what? Drink it!
Li Yuebai ignored the eunuch's surprise and took the medicine bowl and drank it all.
He regretted it soon after drinking it.
The bitterness is secondary. The main problem is this medicine...it seems to be drug X!