"Bang!"
A dull thud followed almost simultaneously with Lin Wanwan's piercing scream.
The sound struck the hard rock base of the artificial mountain once, and then slammed into Xiao Che's heart.
In Xiao Che's eyes, filled with terror and despair, he saw Lin Wanwan, like a moth drawn to a flame, catch her falling son with unwavering courage and precision.
She held that small figure tightly in her arms with all her might, and between the soft body and the hard ground, there was the warmest and most solid barrier in the world.
"Wow--!"
The little girl, who had survived the ordeal, stood frozen in her mother's arms for a second before finally bursting into a heart-wrenching cry. The cry was filled with terror from the shock, but there wasn't a trace of pain in it.
He was unharmed.
However, Lin Wanwan, who was acting as a human cushion, lost control and fell forward the moment she hugged her son due to the huge impact and the inertia of the forward movement!
The back of her head slammed squarely into the incredibly hard stone base of the artificial hill!
"Thump!"
Another muffled thud, even heavier and more unsettling than the previous one.
Lin Wanwan felt a piercing pain in the back of her head. Then, everything went black. All sounds and images seemed to be instantly pulled away by an invisible hand, and the world fell into a deathly silence.
Before she could even feel her son's soft body, or confirm whether he was alright, her consciousness, like a kite with a broken string, plummeted into an abyss.
In the last second before losing consciousness, she seemed to hear a roar in her ear that seemed to tear the heavens and earth apart, filled with endless fear and rage—
"Wanwan!"
...
"Imperial Physician! Summon the Imperial Physician!! Get him here right now!"
Xiao Che witnessed everything that happened in the blink of an eye, and he went completely insane.
One second, there was the terror of the son falling; the next second, there was the horror of the wife shielding her son with her body while she herself crashed heavily into the rocks!
His mind went blank, his heart felt like it had been crushed by a giant hand, and overwhelming fear, like a raging flood, instantly devoured all his reason.
His roar had long lost its imperial majesty, leaving only the howl of a wild beast on the verge of despair.
He stumbled over, his hands trembling uncontrollably. He wanted to hug Lin Wanwan, but he didn't dare touch her, afraid that if he did, the person in his arms would shatter like glass.
"Mother! Mother, what's wrong?" The little dumpling in her arms was still crying loudly, its little hands constantly pushing against its unconscious mother.
"Guards! Take the Crown Prince away!" Xiao Che's voice was terribly hoarse.
Immediately, palace servants stepped forward and, with a combination of coaxing and deception, took the crying prince away from Lin Wanwan's arms.
Xiao Che then carefully, as if holding a priceless treasure, picked up Lin Wanwan and rushed towards Kunning Palace like a madman.
Only one thought was screaming wildly in his mind:
[You scared me to death! You scared me to death! You scared me to death!]
If Lin Wanwan were still awake, she would definitely see that her husband's head was being scrolled with an unprecedentedly large, bold, and tearful animated emoticon.
Unfortunately, she can't see it.
The entire Imperial Medical Academy was abuzz with Xiao Che's earth-shattering roar.
When Lin Wanwan slowly woke up, this was the scene she saw—
Inside the sleeping quarters, the lights were on, as bright as day.
Her bedside was surrounded by layers of people. At the very back were several imperial physicians, trembling with fear and covered in sweat, carefully taking her pulse.
Standing behind the imperial physician was Xiao Che.
He... looked terrible.
His once neat, moon-white casual clothes were now stained with dust and bits of grass, making them wrinkled and crumpled. His face was deathly pale, as if he had lost too much blood, and his lips were completely devoid of color. His usually deep and sharp phoenix eyes were now filled with alarming blood vessels, and his eye sockets were red, as if he hadn't slept for three days and three nights, or as if he had just been crying bitterly.
He exuded a sense of fragility, as if he were on the verge of collapse.
"Wanwan? You're awake?"
Upon noticing her movement, Xiao Che immediately pushed aside the imperial physician in front of him, leaned down, and his voice became hoarse.
"I..." Lin Wanwan had just opened her mouth when she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head, making her hiss involuntarily.
"Don't move!" Xiao Che immediately pressed her down anxiously. "The imperial physician said you hit your head and got a big bump with some blood stasis. You need to rest."
"Where's Tuanzi?" This was her biggest concern.
"He's fine, unharmed, just frightened, but he's already asleep." Xiao Che's tone carried an undisguised lingering fear.
Hearing that her son was alright, Lin Wanwan finally felt relieved.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense nerves relaxed.
Then, a habit that had almost become instinct made her subconsciously raise her eyes again.
She wanted to see what this man was thinking right now.
Is it 【Wife, you scared me to death.jpg】? Or 【Thank goodness you're okay qA-q.gif】?
However, when her gaze fell upon that familiar area... her heart sank once again.
It was completely empty.
It was still that unsettlingly clean blank space.
Even with Xiao Che's emotions fluctuating so drastically, and his fear and worry almost overflowing, there was still nothing there.
Lin Wanwan stared blankly, her eyes gradually losing focus.
So it wasn't just my imagination.
It wasn't fatigue either.
It's true... gone.
She slammed her head against the wall, and then, the cheat code that had been with her for so long and was the source of her survival... just like that... completely disappeared?
This realization was like a bucket of ice water, drenching her from head to toe.
She could no longer feel the pain in the back of her head; she just felt completely drained, lost and powerless.
"Maybe... I bumped my head, my mind is not clear, and the hallucination is gone..." she murmured to herself, her voice so soft it was like a mosquito's hum, as if she were comforting herself, or as if she were making a final, desperate diagnosis.
Xiao Che didn't hear her murmur clearly.
When he saw that she was awake and lucid, the lingering fear that had been suppressed to the extreme finally found an outlet and instantly transformed into a raging fury!
He suddenly turned around and roared furiously at the chief eunuch waiting to the side. The sound was so loud that it almost lifted the roof off Kunning Palace!
"rockery!!"
"That damn artificial hill!!"
"Level it for me! Immediately! Right now! Blow it up with explosives! I don't want to see that damned thing again!"
The wrath of an emperor can cause the deaths of millions.
At this moment, Xiao Che was a tyrant whose sore spot had been touched, exuding a terrifying aura of destruction.
All the imperial physicians and palace servants in the bedchamber knelt down with a thud, trembling with fear and not daring to breathe.
Only Lin Wanwan remained lying in bed, staring blankly at the furious figure behind her.
He was clearly enraged...
His voice was filled with murderous intent, and he was like a volcano about to erupt...
Why……
Why can't she see anything?
She could only see an angry king, and could no longer see her proud husband who, when angry, would send messages like "Baby's angry! Come and comfort me!" floating above his head.
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