“What am I doing?” Ming Yi laughed coldly, “A servant dares to order the emperor around? Laozi has been wanting to do this a long time ago!”
TL’s Note: Laozi = how one refers to themselves when they think they have a superior status than the other
He then instantly stabbed his sword in the man’s direction. The man quickly stepped back, and the other servants around them immediately encircled him.
Normally, Fang Jiu only felt Ming Yi could only pretend he was powerful because he was working for the emperor. However, when she saw his fatal sword moves down below, Fang Jiu instantly felt he was indeed skillful under his cover.
“His skills are only mediocre,” Seeing her admiring look, Xuan Yuanfan looked a bit upset.
Fang Jiu couldn’t help but gave him a light glance, but she didn’t speak.
Getting a little upset from her look, Xuan Yuanfan pulled her into his room by pulling her on the arm.
“Hey, why are you using your hands again?” Fang Jiu wanted to shake his hand away, but in the next moment, her shoulders got pressed on tightly and abruptly by someone.
The two pair of eyes stared at each other, and his deep voice said, “Why did you come back that day?”
Fang Jiu: “…” How obsessed was the male lead’s son with this question?
“You don’t want me to die, right?” His steps made her cornered to the wall, and his hands held onto her shoulders. His eyes were flaring, “I know it. You just don’t want me to die.”
“…”
Turning her head because Fang Jiu didn’t want to look at him, she said, “Your servants are innocent, and they shouldn’t die such horrifically in their owner’s hands. Besides, my mother poisoned you. Now, it should be cured by me.”
If she was the one who got poisoned and she killed the people around her, Fang Jiu felt as if she would’ve gone insane. It could be seen how Xuan Yuanfan lived in his past few years. This kind of poison should not have existed in this world.
“I know you are lying to yourself, or else you wouldn’t have come that day!” He suddenly reached out a hand to lift her delicate jaw. His voice was deep, “Zhen wants to take responsibility for you.”
Fang Jiu, confused: “…”
“These past few years, mother, the former empress, and father, the former emperor, taught me one thing,” His eyes were deep and serene, “and that is to be loyal to one girl for my entire life.”
Then, Fang Jiu could only feel her jaw suddenly get raised by someone, and a warm thing suddenly pressed on…
Xuan Yuanfan gently rubbed her soft lips, and his eyes narrowed. It was as if he noticed she wasn’t protesting, he instantly summoned up the courage to deepen this kiss…
“Who… wants… wu…” Fang Jiu opened her mouth and felt something slip in. She instantly widened her eyes and bit on it!
“Ah…” He wiped the trace of blood on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes became more meaningful as he stared at her.
“How many wives have you kissed with this mouth?” Fang Jiu’s pushed forcefully on his shoulders, “Move. Do you think I’m like a three-year-old who’s easy to be fooled… Ah!”
She widened her eyes as her hands got pulled up to the top of her head by him. Xuan Yuanfan looked at her innocently, “I’ve never touched any women.”
If he hadn’t unintentionally kissed her that time, he still wouldn’t know how women tasted like today…
“You think I’d believe you?” Fang Jiu turned her head to the side to avoid him, but her voice level lowered by a lot.
How could she have known her kind return made this dude overthink so much!
“Then how will you believe me?” He said and went closer to kiss the corner of her lips, his lips gently and softly landing on her clean, white face.
Fang Jiu incessantly pushed his shoulders, her face blushing more and more, “Go away…”
“You will regret it if you let me die, right?” He had her soft waist in his arms, and his continuous kisses landed on her lean neck, “I would regret it if you die, too…”
“But your mother, the former empress, wants me dead…” Fang Jiu uncomfortably cowered her neck. She felt like this man hadn’t seen a woman in a few hundred years.
The candlelights shone on her delicate side face. Xuan Yuanfan’s adam’s apple bobbed in his throat, and all his calmness melted into desires at this moment.
“It won’t happen… With me here…” Her soft lips in his mouth, his hand tightly held onto her too-thin waist and was going to move upward.
“Emperor, that tyke has been taken… care…” Ming Yi numbly stood at the entrance. He swore, he didn’t even have to announce himself when he stepped into the royal palace study. But now…
“Ah!” Fang Jiu lowered her head. She felt that she was losing her dignity, getting bumped into by this boy.
Xuan Yuanfan inhaled deeply. Holding Fang Jiu’s hand, his face was grave as he looked at the person at the door, “Does this scene look interesting?”
His voice couldn’t have been colder. Ming Yi swallowed and instantly closed the door forcefully!
Fang Jiu lifted her head and coughed softly, “Don’t think I would believe your sweet words. Quick, take off your clothes. I still want to have my meal after the acupuncture session!”
She was starving to death.
Xuan Yuan fan looked down, and his voice seemed natural, “I haven’t had my meal yet, either.”
“None of my business! Take off your clothes!” Fang Jiu said, and as if she thought of something, she suddenly widened her eyes, “Where’s my medicine box?”
She got mysteriously kidnapped, so her medicine box must not be here with her!
Xuan Yuanfan didn’t talk. He only took a medicine box from another cupboard in the room and “obediently” started taking off his clothes.
As a doctor, Fang Jiu would not get seduced. However, when she looked at that naked body and curvaceous muscles, she still had to clench her teeth and remind herself not to look elsewhere.
After arduously performing an entire acupuncture session, she finally exhaled out of relief, turned around, and started cleaning up.
“I can’t touch you for 49 days?”
A low sigh came from behind her. Fang Jiu, with her medicine box, turned her head to give him an upset glare, “If you think your life is too long, go try it with one of your wives. If you die then, I will grieve for you!”
She then swiftly opened the door and went out of the room. As soon as she got out, she bumped into Ming Yi. The latter’s eyes were looking everywhere but her.
“What did you say just now? I’m your girlfriend?” Fang Jiu raised her brows, then immediately walked back into her room.
As if noticing the cold stare from inside the room, Ming Yi could only sense cold sweat all over his forehead. He would never dare to speak random things anymore!
After eating whatever was there, Fang Jiu put some more drugs and silver needles in her clothes. This way, she would feel safer.
It would take ten more days for them to go back to the capital. But because there was something he had to do there, Xuan Yuanfan moved at a very fast pace. Fang Jiu also gave up on riding in the carriage, and they had a very bumpy ride for several days on the horseback.
When they got to the capital, to avoid stares from passersby, she and Xuan Yuanfan finally started riding in a carriage. Seeing the crowds walking around in the city, Fang Jiu couldn’t help but put down the curtains, turned her head, and glanced at the man beside her, “How good are the imperial physicians here in your imperial physicians’ hospital?”
The latter put down the paper he was holding, which contained proposed laws from citizens, and looked up, “What do you think?”
TL’s Note: Basically saying no. :’)
After all, he had never gotten an imperial physician from there.
“That’s unfortunate. I still want to compete with them to see who has more medical knowledge,” Fang Jiu sighed, picked up a book about medical knowledge, and continued to browse through it.
Taking over her hand, Xuan Yuanfan kissed it and said seriously, “From now on, you can only be my doctor.”
Fang Jiu: “…”
“You are very healthy. Psychopath!” She took her hand back and gave him a weird look.
Just when the latter was about to speak, the carriage suddenly stopped. The sounds of a conversation between Ming Yi and the guards at the entrance of the palace came from the outside.
Everyone knew Ming Yi was the emperor’s right-hand man. At this time, no one dared to stop them, and the carriage was let into the palace directly, too. Those guards were also toadying to them.
Fang Jiu stealthily lifted the curtains to see those luxurious and shining buildings along with the maids and eunuchs, all lowering their heads and acting discreetly. The entire atmosphere in the palace seemed extraordinarily suppressing. Fang Jiu suddenly thought of the saying, “as soon as you enter the palace doors, you will fall into schemes deep as the ocean”. It seemed to be a quite reasonable saying.
Fang Jiu realized she was in front of an empty yard when the carriage stopped. Everywhere else was deserted, with no servants passing by. There was only an old eunuch guarding there.
“Miss Fang, you don’t have an identity right now. Go sign up at the Imperial Household Department with Eunuch Li, and he will put you at the Qian Qing palace station,” Ming Yi didn’t even dare to use a loud voice when he talks now.
Fang Jiu glanced at the old eunuch, who was standing to one side, then she glanced at Xuan Yuanfan, who seemed to be changing in the room. She immediately had on a faint smile, “I want to be a female physician!”
They shouldn’t think she wouldn’t know. This imperial physicians’ hospital does have female doctors!
Not daring to offend this big character, Ming Yi only sneakily whispered a few words in Eunuch Li’s ears. Whatever Ming Yi said completely and instantly changed Eunuch Li’s expression now when he looked at Fang Jiu.
Shaking his horsetail whisk, he instantly grinned and came up to Fang Jiu, “Miss, it’s all right even if you don’t sign in. It’s just a title, and you will change it later on anyway.”
Fang Jiu felt terrified when faced with his stare, and she was too lazy to argue against him. She waved her hand and stopped talking.
Eunuch Li immediately brought her to a deeper spot at the inner palace.
They met many maids and eunuchs on the way, and every one of them greeted Eunuch Li. It could be told that his rank in the palace was high. Just when they turned the corner to the emperor’s garden, they saw two beautiful women. Fang Jiu was not too dumb to figure out they weren’t maids in any buildings, for they were wearing delicate clothing!
“Hey, who is this beauty behind Eunuch Li? She looks so pretty. Is she a present from any lords?” The one wearing a blue uniform with a good stature said with a strange tone.
That woman with beautiful looks also laughed as she covered her mouth, “Sister Liu, what are you talking about? Would any lord gift a beauty wearing such poor clothes?”
Fang Jiu lowered her head to examine her clothes, and she didn’t think anything about them was wrong. They cost five silver ingots!
TL’s Note: Five silver ingots are about 40-60 USD?
“Niang Niang will understand this later. Nucai will leave first with her,” Eunuch Li politely said a few words, then led Fang Jiu straight past them as if he wasn’t afraid of their identities.
TL’s Note: Niang Niang = how lower ranks call wives of the emperor. Nucai = how a eunuch refers to himself when facing the emperor or his wives.
It was only until the duo’s silhouettes disappeared within the emperor’s garden full of flowers did that woman with a good stature spit hatefully, “Pfft, that old man. A servant dares to disrespect bengong!”
TL’s Note: Bengong = how a wife of the emperor refers to herself.
“He’s not necessarily disrespecting you. That woman has such a beautiful appearance, so whether the emperor would…” That other pretty woman frowned slightly as if she was worried.
“Ha, I haven’t seen the emperor come to the inner palace in so many years. She’s just a b*, and she’s an unimportant one at that,” The woman with a good stature then led the group of maids and eunuch, who were serving her, away to the other side of the palace, stumbling.
The other woman, however, laughed coldly, “Idiot!”
After following Eunuch Li to a room that was usually for high ranking maids, the sky had already darkened outside. Eunuch Li was still talking about protocols in the palace, but Fang Jiu felt very sleepy and didn’t want to listen. She chased him out, changed into a maid uniform, and took a nap on the bed.
When she woke up, Fang Jiu saw Eunuch Li, haunting her by standing beside her bed. Fang Jiu’s heart almost stopped beating from the scare.
“Miss Fang, the emperor would like to see you,” To be honest, Eunuch Li had already visited her several times, but Ming Yi told him that it was best not to wake this girl up. Of course, as an extremely clever person who had been drowning in the inner palace for several years, he naturally wouldn’t have done such a stupid thing.
Exhaling, Fang glanced at the already darkened sky and felt it was time for her to settle accounts with Xuan Yuanfan!
The emperor’s study wasn’t one of the most but was the most secured place in the palace!
Fang Jiu, staring at the rows and rows of guards, had no idea why she felt it was a wrong decision to come to the royal palace.
“Emperor, the person you want is here,” Eunuch Li said respectfully, standing at the entrance.
In the next moment, the door got opened by someone. The night wind continued to blow at his bright yellow dragon robe, and his handsome face became even more dignified at this moment.
Seeing the woman, at the entrance, who had changed into a blue maid uniform by herself, Xuan Yuanfan ignored Eunuch Li, took Fang Jiu’s hand, pulled her in, and shut the door.
Eunuch Li wanted to ask if he wanted his meal to get served, but seeing the emperor in such a hurry, he could only sigh and stop talking.
Pulling her waist into his arms, he pressed her onto the door. Xuan Yuanfan lowered his head and kissed her lips, “Why are you choosing to become a maid?”
After returning to the palace and seeing the mountains and mountains of policy documents on his table, Xuan Yuanfan found them very tedious. No wonder there were so many tyrants in history who failed their countries because of women. At this moment, he could suddenly feel how they felt.
“You have to ask Ming Yi about that. He made me become a maid!” Fang Jiu then turned her head away and avoided his kiss, “A certain someone said he has no wives. However, I just met two very beautiful women in your harem. Is that someone saying they popped out of a rock?!”
Becoming angrier by the moment, Fang Jiu put all her strength into pushing away the hand on her waist, “You are just a liar! Release me now!”
Seeing her angry appearance, Xuan Yuanfan was not getting hushed. He lowered his head to her ears and laughed softly, “Are you jealous?”
“You are shameless!” Fang Jiu bent her knee and kicked upward!
But in the next moment, she got held up horizontally and was put on the soft couch in three strides.
He lowered his body onto her, and with his head lowered onto her neck, he mumbled, “I never touched them, so they naturally do not count as my wives.”
He then continued, “My father, the former emperor, could promise my mother to be forever loyal to her. I can do that, too.”
Fang Jiu paused. To be honest, sometimes, she felt Xuan Yuanfan was just an inexperienced child in relationships; otherwise, he wouldn’t have liked her just because she returned that one time. However, he must’ve underestimated the female lead’s mercilessness. How could someone like the female lead accept her enemy’s daughter as her son’s wife?
Besides, her Shishu had disappeared even until now, probably planning on some big move. If he was determined in killing the male and female leads, what should she do?
As she pondered, Fang Jiu felt something slip into her clothes. She was so scared she hurriedly pressed onto the big hand on her waist, “You can’t touch women!”
Kissing her lean neck, her voice was extraordinarily hoarse, “One of the imperial physicians told me this is nonsense. Are you lying to me?”
Translated by: Sydney
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