After coughing, Xiao Jin struggled to stand up straight and sat up.
Due to the cold weather in the capital, the blood that had been trickling down her arm had already frozen from the howling wind and snow.
However, the original owner’s body was weak, and although Xiao Jin’s lips were stained with blood and her face was abnormally red, her whole body had already begun to tremble.
Before her vision became increasingly blurry, she took a breath and answered Chu Shao’s question, “Princess, I pushed you away because… it’s not right.”
Chu Shao looked at Xiao Jin, who was leaning against a pine tree, and walked a few steps closer, reaching out to touch her feverish face in a gentle tone, “Your Highness, what’s wrong?”
In Chu Shao’s eyes, there was nothing wrong.
Most people spend their entire lives just trying to get what they want. In such circumstances, it is rare for someone to be strongly driven by desire and still be able to restrain themselves and remain sober.
It could be said that there are no such people at all.
Before meeting Xiao Jin, Chu Shao did not believe that there were still people like this in the world.
After all, she had never encountered anyone like Xiao Jin before.
Xiao Jin was flushed all over from the effects of the aphrodisiac, and at this moment, she finally empathized with how the female lead in online novels felt when they were drugged.
It was truly unbearable.
Either she wanted to take someone for herself or she wanted someone to come and take her quickly.
She felt that her endurance had already reached its limit.
However, she still reached out and weakly pushed away Chu Shao’s hand, slowing down her voice and hoarsely saying, “Because I don’t want to become someone who even I myself feel ashamed of.”
Chu Shao looked at the blood on Xiao Jin’s arm and hesitated, but did not respond.
Actually, Xiao Jin’s thoughts were very simple.
Although she had seen many scenes of taking aphrodisiacs and rolling around in bed in online novels, she still refused from the bottom of her heart when she experienced it firsthand.
She didn’t want to succumb to the drug, nor did she believe that she couldn’t control herself under the influence of the drug.
Moreover, a paper person is also a person, and she should respect Chu Shao’s wishes.
However, she didn’t expect Chu Shao to actively initiate something, which almost caused her to lose control.
Although she didn’t know what Chu Shao was thinking, before her body was about to explode from the heat, Xiao Jin still managed to control her instincts and whispered a sentence.
“I’m sorry.”
The apology was directed towards Chu Shao.
The reason was the impulsive kiss from earlier.
Chu Shao was stunned, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
Because she didn’t understand why Xiao Jin had to apologize to her, and she had never seen a noble from a country apologize to someone else.
In reality, Xiao Jin felt quite ashamed.
She and Chu Shao were originally in a fake marriage. If this happened in modern times and she hadn’t been caught… leading to other events and causing serious consequences, the nature of the situation would be quite bad.
Of course, Xiao Jin firmly put herself in the position of the troublemaker, without considering that she could also end up being the victim.
Chu Shao didn’t respond, but Xiao Jin didn’t care about whether the other party would respond or not.
After all, she was only apologizing unilaterally, and whether Chu Shao would accept it or not was not her concern.
The sound of horse hooves seemed to come from a distance, and Xiao Jin wanted to open her eyes to see, but she couldn’t.
Considering how cold it was, she thought she might have a fever.
Being hit and having a fever, all in the snow in winter, she had never experienced such a miserable thing in her life.
Her vision gradually became blurry, and Xiao Jin watched Chu Shao’s lips move, as if she was saying something to her. But she couldn’t hear very well, and her eyelids were very heavy.
The wound was freezing and painful, and the feeling was not very pleasant.
After closing her eyes, Xiao Jin forgot where she was and who she was.
She only knew that she had fallen into a very comfortable embrace, so warm and soft, as if sinking into cotton.
The other person’s voice was very captivating, and a hint of laughter could be heard.
The ending tone was drawn out gently, as if somewhat helpless. “Your highness, you catching me off guard like this will make things difficult for me.”
Xiao Jin felt both cold and hot, and her body was in pain.
She wanted to cuddle with the beautiful woman with the lovely voice and maybe she wouldn’t feel so uncomfortable anymore.
After a gentle cuddle, the other person laughed, and it was clear that she was very happy.
“Your highness, since you have won this time, then I should let you go as well. So before you wake up, I won’t take advantage of you and discover your secrets.”
Who is this highness?
Xiao Jin didn’t know who this highness was, she just felt like she was about to die from discomfort.
Chu Shao looked at Xiao Jin, who was frowning and squirming in her embrace, and smiled happily again.
Her heart was still beating fast, and she didn’t know if it was because she was holding her country’s enemy in her arms.
Someone like Xiao Jin, with such a cold and indifferent face, but doing things like this, really made people feel helpless.
Chu Shao saw Xiao Jin’s face turn red and watched her squirm in her arms, reopening the wound that had just solidified and making it bleed again, while still struggling to catch her breath.
She wanted to reach out and smooth the furrow between her brows, but she didn’t have an extra hand, so she could only smile and say, “Your highness, you’re really special, and it makes me curious, who are you?”
Xiao Jin was tormented enough by the Hehuan powder fragrance and naturally wouldn’t answer her.
Chu Shao continued to smile and said, “But you’re sick now and need a good sleep. No one will hurt you until you wake up, so you can sleep peacefully.”
She looked at the tight frown on Xiao Jin’s face and the obvious trembling in her arms, so she spoke softly, with a hint of laughter, “Don’t be afraid, I’m here, they will pay the price.”
Chu Shao knew that Xiao Jin’s tremble was not because of fear, but she still spoke casually.
Because she really wanted to repay the Fourth Prince and Old Wang.
So when Chu Shao put away her dagger just now, she didn’t wipe the blood off the blade with her hand.
She had a bad memory and was always worried that she would forget to repay the Fourth Prince.
Xiao Jin’s head was spinning and she couldn’t hear what the other person was saying.
But she snuggled in that warm embrace and felt like she was back in her hometown.
It’s just that the posture was a bit awkward.
Before losing consciousness, she thought: Whatever the posture, it’s better than leaning against a tree, right?
…
The carriage raced all the way.
Inside the carriage, Chu Shao looked at Old Zhang’s face, which was as if he was attending a funeral and asking about illness, and her lips still held a smile, “Old Zhang, your highness still has energy, you don’t have to panic like this.”
The person next to her was Xiao Jin, whose head was resting on her thigh.
Old Zhang, the steward, sat across from Chu Shao, constantly trembling.
He really dared not look at Xiao Jin at this moment, nor did he dare to listen to the unintentional moans that spilled out of Xiao Jin as he fainted.
Even though he had recently seemed to become the “confidant” of the prince, after witnessing all of this, he still felt that he would be executed by the whole family.
Meanwhile, Su Tan was sitting outside the carriage, driving the horses, her face black as coal.
If she didn’t know that the Prince Yan was inside, she would have thought that something unsavory was going on in the carriage.
When Old Zhang, the steward, urgently came to find Su Tan, she was looking at the dozens of pots of mint flowers outside the pharmacy with a face full of black lines.
She was thinking about how to return these mint flowers to the Prince Yan’s mansion, but the rightful owner of the flowers arrived.
Su Tan was a little surprised and was about to bring up the issue of the ownership of the flowers.
Unexpectedly, Old Zhang was panting and said to her, “Su…Doctor Su, the prince has an urgent request for you to bring life-saving medicine to save someone, please bring as much as possible!”
Faced with this inexplicable request, Su Tan frowned and asked, “Why? What happened?”
However, Old Zhang himself was also confused.
He didn’t understand what Xiao Jin was talking about or understand Xiao Jin’s arrangements, so he could only be vague and say he didn’t know.
When Su Tan rushed to the disaster scene with the medicine box, she didn’t see anyone on the verge of death, but she did see Xiao Jin being held in Chu Shao’s arms.
Xiao Jin’s complexion was naturally cold, but at this moment her face was as red as if she had applied rouge. She was barely conscious, like a young lady who had been drugged.
Even though Chu Shao was holding her like a princess, she couldn’t stop herself from leaning onto her.
No one could believe that this was the Prince Yan of Qi country.
Su Tan was stunned, and her medicine box fell to the ground.
Old Zhang was even more exaggerated. He stumbled and fell directly into the snow.
Su Tan forced herself to calm down, picked up the medicine box, and asked, “What’s wrong with the Prince Yan and the Princess?”
Chu Shao held Xiao Jin securely and felt that she was very light. At the same time, she was in a good mood.
Although she was a bit unhappy because Su Tan had disturbed her joy, she didn’t want Xiao Jin to die.
So Chu Shao smiled and replied truthfully, “The Prince was given a sedative and has a fever.”
Su Tan thought to herself, “So she was drugged.” She felt like she was being played.
She turned around and asked Old Zhang behind her seriously, “Old Zhang, is this why the Prince Yan asked the commoner to bring the ‘reviving medicine’?”
Old Zhang got up from the snow and said with difficulty, “Dr. Su, I really didn’t think about it.”
Not only was Old Zhang upset, but even now Su Tan, who was driving the carriage, couldn’t let it go.
The carriage she was driving at this time was an old one that she had rented before. It was so old that even the owner didn’t want it back and just gave it to her.
Because Old Zhang, the steward, said they needed to be fast, she had no other feasible way and could only take out this old broken carriage and also bring out the old horse to take a walk.
But she never thought that Old Zhang, the steward, couldn’t ride a horse, so she was the one who had to save the person and also be the one driving the carriage.
Su Tan now finally understood that where there is a master, there must be a servant.
Just as Xiao Jin inexplicably thought she could perform an autopsy, Old Zhang, the steward, was also very confused about her ability to drive a carriage.
She had no idea where the blind trust of these two people in her came from.
However, what annoyed Su Tan the most was not being a laborer.
It was that if Xiao Jin hadn’t mentioned bringing life-saving medicine, she wouldn’t have filled the medicine box with life-saving medicine. Now, she couldn’t even cure ordinary fevers and pains.
Now she had to take Xiao Jin back to the pharmacy for treatment.
If she died under her care, she wouldn’t be able to run away.
It was simply a disaster without cause.
Su Tan’s expression was extremely unhappy.
However, somehow she suddenly remembered the sight of Xiao Jin opening her lips slightly and her face turning red and panting.
She lost her focus for a moment, and the force of her whip wasn’t controlled properly, almost tripping on the stones on the road.
The carriage shook for a moment.
Then a gentle voice came from inside the carriage: “Doctor Su, please slow down, the prince is still sleeping.”
Su Tan listened to the strange sounds coming from inside the carriage and thought that with Xiao Jin’s drugged state, it was strange that she could sleep.
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Author’s note: Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution between 2022-02-26 23:58:07~2022-02-27 04:00:51.
Translator’s note: I’m tired 😩.
TO BE CONTINUE…
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