Volume 2 Chapter 3
Chapter 3: If You Want To Know, Then Drink Your Medicine
“What are you trying to do?” Ye Junqing lifted his blanket and used it to cover his chest as he reflexively shuffled backwards in alarm. Yao Mowan felt speechless. She was a woman, what could she do!?
“You’re sick?” When she noticed that Ye Junqing’s face was slightly flushed, she hastily walked forward worriedly.
“Stay away!” Ye Junqing backed away even more as if Yao Mowan was a beast.
“You caught a cold? Why didn’t you call for an imperial physician?” Yao Mowan didn’t care about Ye Junqing’s wariness at all and reached out to touch his forehead. The burning heat she felt stunned her.
“It’s this hot? Ting Yue!” When she felt his high temperature, her brows immediately furrowed.
“Your Highness?” Ting Yue had run in when she heard Yao Mowan’s call.
“Hurry and call for an imperial physician! Have the imperial hospital send the imperial physician highest in seniority to Guan Osprey Palace!” Yao Mowan’s voice was cold and urgent. Ting Yue didn’t dare to ask any questions and immediately headed off to carry out this command. However, Ye Junqing called for her to stop.
“There’s no need!” Ye Junqing flung the blanket away and got off the bed in a cross manner. Ting Yue paused at the door and looked towards Yao Mowan in confusion.
“Do you need this consort to repeat herself?” Yao Mowan’s voice was cold. Upon hearing this, Ting Yue immediately left the room to head towards the imperial hospital.
“This prince said there was no need! This prince won’t let him look even if he comes!” Ye Junqing glared at Yao Mowan angrily and made to leave the room.
“Mowan naturally has ways to make you behave.” Yao Mowan retrieved the sternness in her eyes and followed him out with a smile. Ye Junqing abruptly turned around and looked at her doubtfully.
“What? You don’t believe me?” The way Yao Mowan looked confident as if she had a trick up her sleeve angered Ye Junqing, but he also found it funny. If he wasn’t willing, who had the ability to force him?
“Then just wait and see. For now, eat.” As Yao Mowan spoke, she walked to the table and took the still-warm food out of the box to lay out on the table. Ye Junqing sat next to the desk without moving with an expression of ‘I’m not eating, I’d like to see what you can do.’
“Imperial Physician Wang, this way!” When Yao Mowan heard Ting Yue’s voice, she walked slowly towards Ye Junqing. As she glanced over his handsome face that was flushed due to his fever, she said softly, “As long as you behave, Mowan will tell you the reason behind Nurse Sun’s death.”
When Yao Mowan saw shock appear on Ye Junqing’s face, her lips lifted slightly in a smile. Then, she walked back to the table and waited for Ting Yue to arrive.
“This humble subject kowtows in salute to Consort Yao and the Esteemed Prince.” Imperial Physician Wang was already past sixty years old, but his voice was still firm and strong.
“Hurry and take a look at him. See if he’s caught any strange illnesses? If it ends up infecting my Fluffy and Jewel, I’ll tell His Majesty to have you spanked!” Yao Mowan pointed at Imperial Physician Wang as she shouted this childishly before glancing at Ye Junqing with disgust.
As a person that had been in the palace for a long time, Imperial Physician Wang was naturally aware of Yao Mowan’s current status in the palace. Although she was a little foolish, no one in the Inner Palace dared to take her words lightly. Hence, Imperial Physician Wang immediately got up and walked to Ye Junqing.
“I’ll have to trouble Prince to allow this humble subject to check your pulse,” said Imperial Physician Wang respectfully. Ye Junqing glanced towards Yao Mowan as he debated whether or not to trust her words. After a few seconds, he decided to trust her.
After Imperial Physician Wang diagnosed his condition, he immediately reported it to Yao Mowan.
“Replying Your Highness Consort Yao, the Esteemed Prince only has a cold. It’s not severe. This humble subject will go write a prescription right now. After taking it for three to five days, he’ll start recovering. If Your Highness is still worried that Fluffy and Jewel may be infected, you can keep the Esteemed Prince from them for the next couple days,” said Imperial Physician Wang respectfully. However, inside, he was seriously uncomfortable. After all, the Esteemed Prince was once a valiant hero, yet now, he mattered even less than two animals. Although he hadn’t reached the end of his road, his fate was already so desolate, how could people not pity him?
“Then why are you still standing here? Hurry and go! Ting Yue, you go as well to make him hurry!” Yao Mowan only relaxed when she heard that Ye Junqing only had a slight cold.
The moment Imperial Physician Wang and Ting Yue left, Ye Junqing rushed to Yao Mowan at the speed of an arrow.
“Nurse Sun really is dead? How did she die?” His clear eyes flashed with sharp cold light. He was sure that Yao Mowan knew about the incident because Yao Mowan was more two-faced and crafty than anyone else he had ever met. However, he also believed from the bottom of his heart that this wasn’t how she had been from the start. She was Moxin’s biological sister, so she was trustworthy.
“Eat,” said Yao Mowan lightly as her lips hooked in a deep smile.
“You should know how important this is to me!” Ye Junqing argued in frustration.
“At this moment, having you eat is what’s most important to Mowan.” Yao Mowan replied calmly.
“You said that as long as I behaved, you would tell me the cause of Nurse Sun’s death!” Ye Junqing reminded Yao Mowan angrily.
“Behaving isn’t just limited to having Imperial Physician Wang look at you!” Yao Mowan smiled mischievously. Ye Junqing became so angry he couldn’t even speak. As he glowered at her, he shouted the one name that always drove him crazy.
“Yao Mowan!”
“Ahem… don’t worry, Prince. As long as Prince takes the medicine on time, eats meals, and the imperial physician diagnoses that Prince has recovered, Mowan will naturally tell Prince everything you want to know. So right now, eat!” Yao Mowan carried the food over and placed it in front of Ye Junqing extremely gently.
Ye Junqing was completely defeated. Yao Mowan’s craftiness was definitely unrivaled in this world. Whoever that sought to have a rational talk with her would definitely be seeking his own death! He was the best example. Thus, for the sake of finding out the truth behind Sun momo’s death, Ye Junqing lifted the porcelain bowl without a word and started taking large fierce bites of rice and vegetables. In his eyes, the food represented Yao Mowan’s sinister smiling face!
After the meal, as Yao Mowan was pointing at the medicinal soup and ordering Ye Junqing to drink it, there was a gust of wind and a figure dressed in alluring red drifted down in front of Yao Mowan and Ye Junqing.
“Junqing, you’ve really fallen ill? Is it severe? What kind of medicine is this? Are you sure there’s nothing wrong with it!?” The moment Yan Nansheng appeared, he hastily walked over to Ye Junqing and pelted him with questions of concern. Yao Mowan knew that he was doing this because he felt guilty for taking Liu Sha back without giving Ye Junqing an explanation.
Just as Yan Nansheng reached out to check the soup, Ye Junqing swiftly picked up the soup and drank it in one go as if he didn’t see Yan Nansheng at all.
“What is with him?” Yan Nansheng hadn’t believed Yin Xue’s message, but he was still worried so he came to take a look even though he really didn’t want to see Yao Mowan ever again. Ever since he met this woman, his treasures had been rapidly diminishing.
“The disease has attacked the vitals, he urgently needs a miracle cure!” replied Yao Mowan concisely.
“Cough cough… Cough cough cough…” When Ye Junqing hear this, he choked and started coughing. He reflexively glanced towards Yao Mowan. In her bright and clear eyes, he saw the word ‘greed.’
“Is it really that severe?” Yan Nansheng turned around to look towards Ye Junqing. Although he wasn’t as energetic as usual, he still didn’t look like he was on the brink of death.
“Cough cough cough cough cough…” When Yan Nansheng looked over, Ye Junqing suddenly started coughing violently and even pounded at his chest.
“My little junior brother ah! Don’t scare me! Master has said that our destinies are linked. If you die, I won’t live long either!” Yan Nansheng looked at Ye Junqing with a flustered expression.
At the side, Yao Mowan’s left eyebrow lifted slightly. It was clear that Ye Junqing was helping her with this act.
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Credits: Translated by Chiyomira