Chapter 53

Hearing the sound of someone throwing up, Zixiu suddenly realized that Physician Ling seemed to have calmed down. He then gradually loosened his grip on the latter, but to his surprise, he couldn’t withdraw his hands. “What the hell?”

When he looked up in confusion, Zixiu immediately met Lingxiao’s enchanting eyes, which reminded him of the moment the latter making eyes at him in the morning. Zixiu felt his heart skip a beat as if he had been struck by lightning. As Lingxiao grabbed him so tightly, Zixiu failed to break free from his grip after a few attempts.

When he was struggling desperately, he suddenly heard Xingyi’s voice coming from behind the sparse fence. “Your Highness!”

Zixiu turned pale in an instant and he was so nervous that he was nearly out of breath. Xingyi only allowed him to hang about near the princess’s bedroom. However, he had not only crossed the line, but also tried to take the opportunity to run away!

“Your Highness, are you there?”

Hearing the increasingly impatient voice approaching, Zixiu could tell that next, Xingyi would come out from behind the fence and appear in front of him like a ghost!

Standing where he was in a panic, Zixiu didn’t know what to do.

At this critical moment, he suddenly felt someone grab him on the waist. Losing his balance, Zixiu leaned backward and saw Lingxiao’s magnified face in front of him.

“Your Highness, what’s wrong with you? Your Highness, wake up!” Lingxiao cried out with a trembling voice, looking anxious.

He acted so realistically that Zixiu even doubted that he might have really fainted and been held up by Physician Ling and his servant. Otherwise, how could Physician Ling’s eyes be full of concern?

“Oh! I really feel dizzy!” Zixiu gave himself a psychological cue and then closed his eyes cooperatively as if he had lapsed into a coma.

“What happened?” Catching sight of Zixiu, Xingyi dashed over instantly. She snatched him from Lingxiao and then placed him on the couch aside with a trace of suspicion crossing her sharp eyes.

Seeing that, Lingxiao could tell that there must be many secrets about this ‘princess’. “Shouldn’t the new wife of Prince Mu be Princess Liuxu of the Wen Kingdom? How come Nangong Du replaced the princess with Xiuxiu without being noticed? It has been over half a month since they got married, but though Nangong Du was poisoned, nothing happened between the two countries, so there must be a skeleton in the closet! But it’s none of my business! I’m only a physician and I’ll be content as long as Xiuxiu can get out of here and spend the rest of her life with me. Hahaha!”

Though he was thrilled inwardly, Lingxiao looked very serious as if he was tense. He reached out and was about to feel the ‘princess’s’ pulse, but was stopped by Xingyi euphemistically.

“Your Highness, seems your malady had recurred. Let’s get back to your chamber and take a rest!” Getting down on one knee, Xingyi wiped the ‘princess’s’ forehead gently with a handkerchief, her voice full of concern. However, from an angle that Lingxiao couldn’t see, she was digging into the back of Zixiu’s neck with her scarlet fingernails!

“How could a maidservant paint her nails red?” Clenching his teeth with a frown, Zixiu was in such pain that he almost burst into tears. Now he couldn’t act as still as a dead man for fear that this damn woman would strangled him right away!

Thinking that Zixiu was still faking it, Lingxiao suddenly came up with an idea. “I wonder what kind of illness Her Highness has. Maybe I can…”

“I don’t think that’s necessary!” Xingyi interrupted him rudely while helping up Zixiu, who had just ‘come round’. “Her Highness will be alright after a short rest. His Majesty has issued the decree, so Physician Ling, I suggest you concentrate on how to detoxify Prince Mu!”

With that, she took Zixiu away without even looking back.