“… Do they have as much medical knowledge as me?” She looked stern.
Xuan Yuanfan narrowed his eyes, skeptically staring at her with a subtle expression.
“If you don’t believe me, then try it on your wives. After all, dying under a pretty woman will make you quite a glory even as a ghost,” Fang Jiu turned her head and didn’t look at him.
Seeing this scene, Xuan Yuanfan finally kissed her face softly, “Even if I die, you will be the one I die under.”
Fang Jiu: “…”
It was until the man on her finally left did Fang Jiu got up and scanned the environment around her. The entire study was very large, and a benzoin fragrance was lit up. All the furniture and decorations were priceless; if anyone took and sold them, they would live the rest of their lives rich.
Seeing he was already sitting in front of his desk and reviewing bills, Fang Jiu moved a round stool and sat next to him.
“If you feel tired, go rest on the couch. We will go back to Qian Qing Palace together later,” Xuan Yuanfan lifted his head to glance at her, then, as if recalling something, he suddenly asked: “Are you feeling hungry?”
Fang Jiu did not reply to his question but instead enthusiastically stared at the chair he was sitting on, “I haven’t sat on the emperor’s chair before. Can you let me try?”
Who had never dreamed of becoming an emperor!
Xuan Yuanfan only laughed softly as he pulled her arm and let her sit next to him.
The chair was big, and it was just fitting for the duo to sit on. Fang Jiu, seeing the mountain of bills on the desk, couldn’t help but thumbed through a few. She realized it was all about how there was a famine in the north, and citizens were starving. They were requesting the court to send food to help with the disaster.
“You still haven’t provided them food?” He looked quite troubled to Fang Jiu as if he had met a hard problem to solve.
“It’s not that I’m not sending them food. It’s just that… mother seems to want to go in person, so we can only keep it on hold for now,” Xuan Yuanfan felt very helpless, too. His mother, the former empress, had always been very belligerent. If anyone dared to disobey any of her thoughts, they would be the prick in her eyes. If he sent food before she returned, she would get upset again. Then, Fang Jiu would…
She didn’t know he thought on so many aspects, but Fang Jiu did understand the female lead’s personality. Fang Jiu patted his shoulder, “Dragging on one day means one more day of citizens overwhelmed by famine. You are her son. Even if she gets unhappy, so what?”
Glancing with the corner of his eyes, he suddenly held her hand, “Even if you don’t say this, I would’ve sent people to help with the famine tomorrow. I’m not worried that my mother will get angry; I’m only worried she still is biased when it comes to you.”
No one knew his mother’s personality better than he did.
“Okay, okay. When the boat meets the harbor, it would automatically go horizontal. Okay, I’m going to stop talking to you. I have to find Eunuch Li so I can have my meal,” Fang Jiu thought it wasn’t that easy to sit on the emperor’s chair, so she stood up and went out to call someone to serve them.
Naturally, the food in the palace was the best. The rarest food was all served and seemed quite normal in such a luxurious palace. Fang Jiu got full after eating by herself, and when she finished, Xuan Yuanfan was still working on the bills. He had a serious expression on, and his rare, handsome appearance had a hint of anger. It was as if he had met something that angered him off.
The night wind outside the windows was as chilly as water, and the waning moon high up in the sky poured starlight onto the ground. Fang Jiu was not as energized as him, and she resolutely lied on the couch and slept.
When she woke up, the sky outside had already brightened. Shiny sunlight projected in from the windows, and the room was quite warm. She scanned around and realized she was lying on a large, bright yellow bed. Only the emperor’s bed in the Qian Qing palace would be able to use the bright yellow color in the palace!
Not knowing how she got here, she rubbed her eyes, got down from the bed, and came to the doors. As soon as she opened the doors, two long, cold swords blocked her way.
“Miss Fang, the emperor has ordered that you cannot come out!” One of the guards said coldly.
After last time, Fang Jiu would not randomly guess anymore. Xuan Yuanfan suddenly prohibited her from coming out, and there was an eighty-percent of chance the female lead was here.
Seeing the palace guards forming a tight circle around the building, she blinked. Deciding not to force her way out, she returned inside.
Not long after, maids came in to help her take a bath. Fang Jiu wanted to ask some questions, but these people had mouths more sealed than anything else in this world. Fang Jiu could get no information out.
When she was being served breakfast, Fang Jiu dismissed all other maids except for the youngest one. She then quickly stuffed a silver ingot into the maid’s hand.
“Mistress, where’s your emperor right now?” Fang Jiu took a mouthful of her porridge as if the bribe just now had not occurred.
That maid agilely put the silver into her sleeves. After glancing around for a moment, she said near Fang Jiu’s ear, “The emperor is in his study right now, and the former emperor and empress are back in the palace, too!”
Fang Jiu: “…”
Sure enough!
“Miss Fang, nubei still needs to remind you. In this world, no matter whom you offend, never make the taihou your enemy. Or else…” The maid, as if recalling something, trembled.
TL’s Note: Taihou = former empress.
Although it could be seen that the emperor adored Miss Fang from how he let her live in the Qian Qing palace, but the maid had heard rumors that the taihou disliked Miss Fang. With taihou’s presence, whether Miss Fang could even get married to the emperor was still a mystery.
Even if she didn’t say it, Fang Jiu still knew. However, she had no way. Even if she shouldn’t have made the taihou an enemy, she had already offended the taihou.
“Then…”
“Bam!”
The door suddenly got kicked open, and a dazzling ray of sunlight shot in. At the same time, a pretty woman also walked in.
She looked around 30-year-old, and her appearance was pretty but aloof. Her eyes carried a hint of mercilessness that could not be doubted. Even if she was wearing a long, blue dress that could be seen anywhere, the aura she carried could not be blocked by anything, making people not being to stare directly at her.
“Nu…Nubei greets the taihou. Taihou shall live a long, long life!” The maid was so scared she fell to kneel on the floor. Her entire body was shaking.
Fang Jiu’s body quivered at once when she saw the person coming in. This female lead seemed to be even harder to deal with than she imagined.
Glancing from the corners of her eyes, Feng Qingcheng strode up to Fang Jiu. She scanned Fang Jiu’s body with a fierce expression, then suddenly reached out a hand to clutch onto Fang Jiu’s neck. Pushing her onto the wall, Feng Qingcheng’s eyes were full of her intention to kill, “So, this is the revenge from Lin Yin?”
TL’s Note: Reminder that Lin Yin is Fang Jiu’s mother.
Fang Jiu could not breathe very well, and she knew if she tried to fight the female lead, she wouldn’t even make it past one move, so she could only incoherently said with a reddened face, “My mother… Is my mother, and I represent me…”
“Shut up!” Feng Qingcheng’s clutch tightened. Ignoring Fang Jiu’s red face, the smile on the corner of her lips was cold enough to penetrate bones, “Seducing my son? Is your next step killing me to avenge your mother? Huh?”
Fang Jiu really could not breathe. She tried as hard as she could to peel away the hand on her neck, “If you kill me, your son’s poison will never be cured!”
“So what?” Feng Qingcheng’s pinch tightened and tightened, “In my entire life, there is nothing else I hate more than threats!”
Noticing that flashing killing aura around the female lead’s body, Fang Jiu reached for the silver needle hidden up in her sleeves. However, she hadn’t had a chance to do so before she felt herself get pulled into familiar arms.
“Ahem, ahem, ahem…” Fang Jiu coughed incessantly, her face showing slight paleness.
Seeing her status, Xuan Yuanfan frowned and looked at the person to the opposite of them with an upset expression, “Mother, if you have spare time, go supervise father. It’s unnecessary for you to worry about my business!”
Even if he had a good temper, it all disappeared at this moment!
“Say it again!” Feng Qingcheng narrowed her eyes. Her expression, when she looked at Fang Jiu now, could not be described anymore as “killing to receive pleasure”.
Her son, who had never disobeyed her before, now talk to her like this for a woman?!
At this moment, Feng Qingcheng suddenly realized the woman in front of her seemed to be harder to deal with compared to her mother!
“I know her better than mother does. It doesn’t matter if mother agrees or not. She will be zheng’s empress!” Xuan Yuanfan’s tone turned colder, and his voice seemed as if he wouldn’t allow anyone to doubt him.
Seeing this, Feng Qingcheng burst into laughter. Watching the girl in front of her who had rare looks, Feng Qingcheng only felt Lin Yin was manipulative. Even if Lin Yin died, she still made her daughter come destroy Feng Qingcheng’s son!!
“Zhen?” She laughed coldly and looked at Xuan Yuanfan as if she felt ironic, “If I don’t agree, she will never be able to become the empress!”
The duo talked in indoor voices, not too loud and not too soft, but the guards standing outside could hear everything. They all had a different expression on at this moment as if they did not expect the emperor and the taihou to argue to this degree for a woman.
Fang Jiu: “…” Should she stand out and say something at this moment?
“Fan’er!”
At this time, a middle-aged, bold-looking man walked in from the outside suddenly. His aura looked restrained, and her eyes looked like cold stars. Although he was already over forty-years-old, these years only left a hint of matureness and steadiness on him, and his unique temperament still looked dignified and majestic.
Coming up to stand beside Feng Qingcheng, the man scanned Xuan Yuanfan with an upset expression, “You talk to your mother like this for the daughter of our enemy. Don’t you forget who gave you the spot of the emperor!”
“It’s just that father doesn’t want it!” Xuan Yuanfan, as if getting angry, too, had a dragged face, “If father emperor wants it, then take it. You think I want to sit on this spot?!”
Reading and passing bills every day. Xuan Yuanfan didn’t even know how he managed to spend those days. If it was all right, he also wanted to travel around the world with Fang Jiu. If Xuan Yuanfan’s father didn’t want the same thing, why did his father abandon the emperor’s chair when he was just sixteen? And now, his father was turning around to blame him?
“You are a disappointment!” Xuan Yuanfan was so angry his fist clenched, and he almost beat him!
Seeing this, Fang Jiu finally couldn’t help but tilted her head and completely “fainted”.
Seeing her feeble and slightly pale face, Xuan Yuanfan immediately held her in his arms and quickly put her onto his bed. Turning his head, he yelled at the people outside: “Call the imperial physicians!”
To prevent herself from getting exposed by the doctors, Fang Jiu intentionally and sneakily stuck her needle into her “sleepy” acupuncture spot, and in the next moment, she blacked out.
Evening came. The sky above the gigantic emperor’s city starry and full of stars. Teams and teams of patrolling guards walked everywhere at times, but nobody noticed that flash of a silhouette in the darkness…
When Fang Jiu woke up, she only felt her body was a bit too stiff. She thought she stuck her needle in too harshly, and she couldn’t help but felt regretful. When she tried as hard as she could and still couldn’t lift her arm, she completely got confused.
In the next second, she saw a familiar silhouette standing in the huge palace. Holding a cup of tea in his hand, a long shadow got cast below his feet with the light coming from the candles.
Coming to the side of the bed with a speed that wasn’t slow or fast, Li Yuan stared at her weirdly, “Don’t worry. Xuan Yuanfan is still arguing against her mother in the emperor’s study right now. Shizhi… I didn’t expect that woman’s son to fall for you. It’s such a pity…”
TL’s Note: Reminder that Li Yuan is her Shishu.
He then shook his head and sat down beside the bed with a pitiful look. Lifting one hand to crack open her mouth, he said, “Shishu doesn’t want to do this either, but you need to forgive Shishu. When the revenge is done, Shishu will go down to the underworld to accompany your mother as compensation for you.”
“Shi…Shishu…” Fang Jiu widened her eyes and watched as he poured that cup of tea down into her mouth. Although she didn’t want to drink it, the tea still streamed into her throat, “Ahem, ahem, ahem…”
Standing up, Liu Yuan looked out at the sky with a complex look, “It’s easy to enter the palace but hard to get out. Later on, Shishu will still need your help to exit.”
“Ahem, ahem, ahem…” Fang Jiu focused on trying to cough out the water, but she couldn’t move and could only angrily stare at Li Yaun, “Shishu, you’re not worthy of my respect for you. You drugged me!”
As a doctor, of course, Fang Jiu could tell what was in the tea!
Joyous San. This drug has a strong effect. If the drugged individual does not sleep with another person within one hour, this individual would die from all seven openings of their head bleeding!
This was a low-tiered drug that used to be so prevalent in society. Because it had no other cure, it was the favorite among the r*pists. Fang Jiu had never thought her Shishu would treat her like this just for his revenge!
“Shizhi, Shishu did this all to avenge your mother. You have been performing acupuncture on Xuan Yuanfan for the past few days, and if he touches a woman during this time, his poison will swallow him. Since he likes you so much, he will not stand by and watch you die. As long as he cures your poison, his poison will start acting up. When that happens, he will die as your mom’s compensation. That disgusting couple will also have no child left!”
Li Yuan helplessly sighed and looked at her from a superior angle: “Although this is unfair to you… Shishu has no other way. If he dies, Shishu will send you back to your father before going to the underworld to accompany your mom!”
TL’s Note: If Fang Jiu was able to talk, that means she could feel her mouth? So why couldn’t she spit the water out? :’)
Translated by: Sydney
Vandez Translations 
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Oh true, she could’ve spit it out welp
Thanks for the chapter! 💕
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