Chapter 27

By the time Zi Li was about to recover from his illness, Hong Xu was still not done with his morning court a.s.sembly, even though it took quite some time for Zi Li to wake up. When Zi Li opened his eyes, he was greeted with fearfully trembling palace maidservants besides Hong Qing who had rare serious expression on his face.

“*cough* *cough*” The scent of blood reeking in his mouth made Zi Li dumbstruck, he immediately was reminded of fainting just a while ago.

Hong Qing saw Zi Li woke up, so he knows that there is no more complications. He moved closer and stopped Zi Li from getting up. He explained: “Don’t move around, your body is very weak right now!”

Zi Li didn’t say he’s all right, since he was reminded of the reason why he was aching all over particularly his lower region that he could not stand. And if he does move, there was that strange liquid ready to flow out!

“I don’t want to stay here, I want to go back to Ming Yang palace.”

“But is not advisable for you to be moving about right now! Can you not rest here for the time being?”

“No! I want to go back to Ming Yang palace,  I want to go back to Ming Yang palace,  I want to go back to Ming Yang palace,  I want to go back to Ming Yang palace, I want to go back to Ming Yang palace, Ah!——I want to go back to Ming Yang palace.” Zi Li repeatedly shouted with his weakened and hoa.r.s.e throat due to last night’s yelling, but despite that, the strong willpower in him refuses to give up, that the vein in his neck was even popping up, making the people looking at him felt sorry and pity.

“Ok, ok, ok, ok! Don’t shout. I’ll take you back at once!” Hong Qing kept supporting him as he agreed on Zi Li’s request. And then, he ordered the palace maidservants to bring in a comfy stretcher.

Zi Li saw that it was not going the way he intends it. It goes without saying that he don’t want others to know what happened last night, but now, they want him to lie on his back on that stretcher and be paraded this way back to the Ming Yang palace, isn’t that tantamount to beating a gong and spreading the news? He would rather die so that won’t happen!

“Don’t! Wu—— I don’t want to go back like that, wu——” Zi Li straightaway sniveled while crying as he talked.

“Ok, ok, ok, it won’t be like that, it won’t be like that!” Hong Qing nodded a lot. He never met someone who was very difficult to accommodate before. But when he saw this man’s small figure on the bed messily crying, he immediately compromises! “The stretcher won’t be use. Then I’ll carry on the way back, is that alright?”

Zi Li was sobbing as he turned towards him and replied: “I don’t- I don’t want people to see me, ok!”

Hence, Hong Qing took the blanket and wrapped Zi Li closely with it till his nose was the only thing exposed for breathing. And then, he carried that big bundle in his arms and lightly jumped towards the green roof tiles towards the Ming Yang palace.

Once they arrived back at the Ming Yang palace, Zi Li did not feel a bit excited, instead, he felt he was greatly wronged! And when he saw Ming Yue who had a worried look on her face, that feeling of being wronged intensified.

Ming Yue was really worried when Zi Li did not came back that night. Then suddenly, he saw the ninth prince dropping from the sky, in his arms is a small bundle of blanket, making her astonished inside. She was just about to giver her salutation, when a small head popped out of that bundle, with both of that person’s eyes looking back at her filled with grieving feelings.

To her surprise, it was none other than his highness!

 But Ming Yue did not have enough time to rejoice, when she was greeted with his highness’s loud “whimpering” and crying.

“You’re highness, whwhat happened to you? Hey, why is there blood on his highness? Were you hurt?” Ming Yue asks in a flurry.

“Wu, wu——Ming Yue!”

“Don’t talk anymore and let’s just get in. You need proper rest to heal up!” Hong Qing said.

“Just put me down, and you can leave. I don’t want to see you!”

Zi Li glared at Hong Qing silently. Even though he knows that Hong Qing is not the one responsible for what happened, but isn’t he related to that surname Hong who is to blame so he’s partly responsible anyway? In any case, anything that has something to do with Hong Xu is all unpleasant to Zi Li’s eyes.

Hong Qing looks back at him in a somewhat guiltless way: “Alright. Then you get proper rest, and by all means, you mustn’t get agitated. I’ll be leaving now, but if you have any problem on anything, don’t hesitate to send people to look for me in my manor. “As he said that, he then took out from his chest pocket a small porcelain bottle and places it on top of the table. He continued to say: “Another thing, imperial physician Li specifically instructed that you must remember to take this pills everyday!”

As soon as the reluctant Hong Qing left, Zi Li’s hardened facial expression immediately slacked. He miserably sobbed towards Ming Yue and said: “I want to take a bath!”

“Sure, sure, your highness. Ming Yue shall leave then to prepare it.” She understands that Zi Li don’t want to bring it up, so Ming had no choice but to swat away the curiosity in her heart and went to prepare the necessities for Zi Li’s bath.

It didn’t take too long for the preparation to be done. Soon afterwards, a big wooden tub filled with hot water was arrange inside Zi Li’s bedroom, and then she informed him: “Your highness is not in condition to take a bath on the outside bath, so Ming Yue just asked people to bring in a wooden tub. I hope that your highness will put up with the idea of taking a bath here.”

“Yeah, I know. You all go first, I can take care of myself.”

“Yes, your highness.”

He waited for them to all leave, and only then did Zi Li started to cry. He sharply inhaled the cold air circulating inside the bedroom and slowly stood up. He grabbed onto the tables and chairs near his bed to support himself from walking slowly with weakened lower limbs towards the bath.

He then steps inside the bath tub and carefully sits in while enduring the wincing pain. Once he was done sitting down, Zi Li’s forehead was dripping with cold sweat from the pain. He was biting his pale lips as he lowered his hands in his lower region to clean inside. With his head bowed, he saw the scattered traces of those white liquid floating in the water.

“I, I’ll definitely leave this place! Wu wu——”

Bonbon wanted to say:

And one last chapter to go~

Poor Zi Li, he’s suffering for our entertainment….

I wonder how the author will make the main pairing(?) fall in love despite that rough start… or there will be a plot twist, such as 3p? We don’t know yet haha!

And poor Hong Qing, such a gentleman and yet Zi Li was hostile to him haha, but both brothers seems to be weak on Zi Li’s tears~

Anyway I won’t be putting pa.s.swords anymore ’cause its inconveniencing you guys too much, though my updates will be open for pillaging T.T

Have a nice evening everyone! Thanks for reading