Chapter 11
A Strange Dream
Yu Yunxi saw Feng Yili’s body that was riddled with scars of all shapes and sizes, and some were even on his vital points.
‘How many times has he escaped death?’
Yu Yunxi pursed her red lips, and her expression grew more and more complicated. Her heart even ached a little. The man in front of her, who was like a god on the battlefield in the hearts of the commoners, was just an ordinary man made of flesh and blood in the end.
“Princess Consort?” Jiang Ying called out worriedly when he saw that Yu Yunxi was in a daze.
“Yes,” Yu Yunxi replied after forcing herself to take a deep breath to calm down. She strode out and quickly spread out a row of needles before she began to perform acupuncture on Feng Yili. The silver needle in her hand accurately pierced Feng Yili’s acupuncture point.
Jiang Ying, who was watching from the side, grew more and more shocked as he watched. He wondered if Yu Yunxi was really just the daughter of a concubine with no presence in the Prime Minister’s Residence. He thought that Yu Zhongcheng must have treated a pearl as a fish eye.
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Four hours passed before Yu Yunxi finally pulled out the last silver needle. Her tensed heart could finally relax a little at this time. When she brought the medicine again to Feng Yili, it was already late at night.
“Princess Consort, is His Royal Highness going to wake up soon? Will he be as he was before?” Jiang Ying asked Yu Yunxi excitedly when he saw that Feng Yili’s complexion was gradually improving.
On the contrary, Yu Yunxi’s expression was solemn. She shook her head and said softly, “The Springwood Separation poison is extremely troublesome. The detoxification process is a little long. He needs at least three acupuncture and bloodletting sessions to completely remove the poison in his body.”
Although Jiang Ying knew that there were steps to follow, he still could not help but ask anxiously, “Today is the first session. When will the second and third sessions be?”
In Jiang Ying’s opinion, Feng Yili was once the proud son of heaven and filled with vigor. However, now, he could only lie here lifelessly. Jiang Ying thought that Feng Yili must feel aggrieved.
“Let him rest for two days first. When his body recovers a little, we’ll proceed with the second round of detoxification,” Yu Yunxi replied patiently.
“That’s great!”
“Don’t be happy yet. The detoxification is only going to get harder and harder each time. I’m confident about the first two times, but the third time will have to depend on fate,” Yu Yunxi said as she shook her head gently.
Jiang Ying felt his heart sink when he heard these words. “Princess Consort, you’re not confident about the third detoxification session?”
“When my mother taught me the way to detoxify this poison, she said that the third detoxification is the most crucial. Apart from requiring a very skilled acupuncture technique, It also requires a very rare medicine. If I’m not careful, all our efforts will be in vain,” Yu Yunxi said solemnly.
Jiang Ying shook his head, feeling slightly panicked.
Seeing Jiang Ying’s anxious appearance, Yu Yunxi said comfortingly, “Don’t worry too much. If the first and second detoxification process goes smoothly, your master’s life is basically saved, and he should be able to wake up. It’s just that every time there’s a thunderstorm, his heart will be in torturous pain.”
Jiang Ying frowned. Although it was not the most desirable outcome, he still felt extremely lucky that Feng Yili’s life would be saved. After a moment, he seemed to think of something and said seriously, “By the way, Princess Consort, you can’t let anyone know that you’re detoxifying Master.”
Yu Yunxi nodded. Even if Jiang Ying did not remind her, she still would not reveal this matter. After all, there were many people who wanted Feng Yili dead. It was likely that those people had planted many spies in the Prince Regent’s Residence, and there would only be more and more traitors in the residence. If those people knew she could save Feng Yili’s life, her life would be in even more danger.
“Princess Consort, you don’t have to worry too much. I’ll protect you even if it means I have to give up my life,” Jiang Ying said loyally.
Perhaps it was because he had more interactions with Yu Yunxi now, Jiang Ying was no longer as stiff as before. He thought for a moment before he said sincerely, “If His Royal Highness wakes up, he’ll definitely be extremely grateful to you.”
Yu Yunxi lowered her gaze and said in a soft voice, “Everyone says that he’s bloodthirsty and heartless. I don’t expect him to be grateful to me, but I hope that he won’t turn against me and kill me.”
Yu Yunxi felt uncertain. Over the past few days, she had learned too many secrets about the Imperial Family and Feng Yili. She wondered if Feng Yili would kill her to silence her after he woke up. She only hoped that when he woke up, she would be able to escape unscathed and leave the capital with her nanny.
Thinking about her nanny, Yu Yunxi quickly turned to Jiang Ying and said seriously, “Jiang Ying, if you’re free tomorrow, can you please go to the Prime Minister’s Residence to check on my nanny? She should be locked up in a dilapidated courtyard on the east side of the residence.”
The dilapidated courtyard on the eastern side of the Prime Minister’s Residence was where Yu Yunxi and her nanny used to live.
Although Yu Yunxi had warned Madam Chen not to abuse her nanny, she still could not rest easy.
Jiang Ying nodded without hesitation. “You’re Princess Consort, Just leave this small matter to me. I’ll think of a way to sneak into the residence tomorrow.”
After interacting with Yu Yunxi, Jiang Ying had already treated Yu Yunxi as half a master.
“Alright, you can go and rest now,” Yu Yunxi said.
After Jiang Ying left, Yu Yunxi was not in a hurry to go to bed. She took the medical books out from the cabinet she had hidden them in during the day.
She sat next to the oil lamp and carefully perused the books. The books were filled with her mother’s insights, and they gave her a familiar feeling.
She planned to see if she could find any information about the third detoxification process for the Springwood Separation poison in the books, but after perusing the books for a long time, she discovered that very little was recorded about the Springwood Separation poison. What little she learned was not as detailed as what her mother taught her.
“Looks like I’ll have to take it one step at a time,” she murmured to herself.
Yu Yunxi rubbed her eyes and yawned, feeling sleepy. In the end, she fell asleep, hunched over the table.
Not long after she fell asleep, a gust of wind blew in and turned the pages of the book next to her.
A small paragraph could be seen on the page:
Patients suffering from the Springwood Separation poison might not be completely unconscious. They might be able to hear voices and sense touches. They might even be able to wake up temporarily in the middle of the night, like a corpse coming back to life.
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Early in the morning.
Yu Yunxi suddenly jolted awake, clutching her chest. At this moment, her heart was pounding, her face was flushed red, and her mouth was dry.
‘Am I crazy?’
She had dreamed about a certain person waking up, and he even touched her cheek. The feeling of the calluses on his hand was so real. It was as though he had really woken up. What was even worse was she did not feel repulsed.
Yu Yunxi turned around quietly and looked at Feng Yili who was lying motionless.
“It has to be a dream. I’ve only detoxified the poison once. How could he have woken up?” Yu Yunxi muttered with a hint of helplessness in her tone and sighed.
In the next moment, Yu Yunxi froze, and her eyes widened. She was certain she had fallen asleep at the table last night so how did she end up on the bed?