There was severe pain all over my body, as if I was broken into several pieces, and my soul was sealed in my body, unable to move.

Wan Ning slowly opened her tired eyes and found herself in a bright and warm room. Only then did she feel relieved and realize that she was safe. She propped herself up on the bed and the towel on her forehead fell into her hands. She thought that she had a fever while sleeping and the towel was used to cool herself down. Now it has dried up.

Looking at the wounds on my body, some of them seemed to have become red and swollen due to being soaked in water, and some showed signs of bacterial infection. Every wound had been treated, medicine was applied, and I was changed into clean clothes.

As she looked around, Ziheng, who had been taking a short rest at the table after guarding her all night, suddenly woke up, walked to the bedside anxiously, took the towel from her hand, and used the back of his hand to feel the temperature of her forehead. After confirming that the temperature had returned to normal, Ziheng's frown relaxed and the worry on his face was relieved.

"It's not hot anymore. Don't worry, you won't die." Wan Ning forced a bitter smile, trying to comfort Ziheng.

"It's already this time, and you still have the mind to joke." Ziheng said lovingly. He carefully lifted Wan Ning's arm to check the wound, his eyes full of heartache and relief.

Wan Ning realized that the wounds on her back, legs and body might be caused by the medicine he applied. Her face immediately turned red and she gently pulled her hand away from him, wanting to avoid his burning gaze.

"Thank you for saving me this time."

"Yanyan, you've been in a coma for a day and a night. The imperial physician can't do anything. You can only rely on your own willpower to make it through," Ziheng clenched his fists and leaned on the bed, adding thankfully, "Fortunately, you woke up." It seemed that if Wan Ning couldn't wake up, he didn't know what he would do.

"That's all thanks to the vaccines I got when I was a kid. They made me strong and resistant." Wan Ning joked to adjust the atmosphere, and then said very soberly: "Don't worry, he won't really let me die! I'm still useful to him. My body has been beaten to a pulp, but I don't have a single scar on my face. That's why he doesn't want to let me die."

The person who did all this harm was his father. These words also made Ziheng feel lost and felt even more distressed for the person in front of him. Wan Ning couldn't help but look at his haggard appearance, with heavy dark circles under his eyes and black stubble, which looked very different from his previous delicate appearance. Wan Ning couldn't bear to say anything anymore, so she changed the subject and asked, "How did you find me?"

"It's Wan Tao. Not long after you left, the Queen Mother sent someone to tell Xiang Wan Xuan that she wanted you to stay in the Buddhist temple for a few days. Wan Tao in your palace felt uneasy and came to me." Seeing Wan Ning looking at the room curiously, he explained anxiously, "This is the dark room in my bedroom. I was really worried about sending you back to Xiang Wan Xuan, so I brought you here. Don't worry, Wan Tao is also here to take care of you. She also helped to treat your wounds. Don't worry, Yan Yan, I didn't do anything."

Seeing him trying to explain in a hurry, he looked a bit silly. Wan Ning couldn't help but laugh and tease him: "The situation is critical anyway, anyone can apply the medicine, you can do it."

Her bold words shocked Ziheng again, but when he stared at her with a smirk, Wan Ning was powerless to resist and started talking about other things: "I saved you once during the autumn hunt last time, and you saved me once this time, so we are even."

Even? Don't even think about it. Ziheng didn't look at her, but turned to talk about Wan Tao: "Wan Tao, did the emperor arrange for someone to take care of you?"

"Yes," Wan Ning's heart skipped a beat and she became uneasy. She had already considered that this matter was related to Wan Tao, but thinking of the little things they had experienced together before, she couldn't bear to continue. "I know what you want to say. I beg you not to continue. Where is Wan Tao?"

"She has been guarding you all night, and we just let her go down to rest. Yanyan, you must be hungry. I'll have someone bring you some food."

Wan Ning was most afraid of sentimental scenes and could not bear to see Ziheng's affectionate eyes, so she nodded. Coincidentally, Wan Tao pushed the door open at this time, holding a huge wooden food box in her hand, which contained the porridge she cooked for Wan Ning. But when she opened the door and saw that Wan Ning had woken up, she lowered her head and held the food box, and walked to the table nervously.

Wan Tao put a few soft pillows behind Wan Ning to make her lie more comfortably, and took out the porridge she had just cooked from the lunch box and gave it to her with some guilt. When Wan Ning took the porridge, she tacitly made an excuse to send Zi Heng away, and stirred the warm porridge with a spoon with a heavy heart.

"Wan Tao, I can't quite remember, but it was the Emperor who sent you to me, right?"

Wan Tao subconsciously clenched the lunch box in her hand. She had known that she would have to face this day sooner or later, but she didn't expect that this day would come so early and she would be so embarrassed. She was not ready to face the questions from Wan Ning, who she had been with day and night, so she could only answer with a trembling hoarse voice:

"Yes, princess."

"What are you daydreaming about?" Seeing that Wan Tao was always restless or in a daze, she became more cautious in doing things, so she pretended to be relaxed and called her, "I need to re-apply medicine to the wound on my body. Can you help me take care of it?"

Wan Tao put down the lunch box in her hand, her feet seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and she walked to the bed with difficulty and gently undressed Wan Ning. Her back was covered with red wounds, which was shocking. Her hands were shaking, and the less Wan Ning said anything, the more ashamed she felt.

"Princess, you have suffered. I... I... really don't know how to face you." Before she finished her words, Wan Tao's eyes turned red and she tried hard to hold back her tears.

"Don't cry yet, I won't die. We still have a long time to live together. Sit here, and we can chat while you change the bandage for me." Wan Ning patted the edge of the bed, motioning her to sit over.

Wan Tao was wearing a beige dress, and her face was still covered with a veil to hide her expression at the moment. She was speechless and sat down gently, fearing that her movements would hurt Wan Ning. So she carefully raised her arm. The wounds that had been medicated seemed to have improved, but they looked even more horrible on her snow-white skin. Wan Tao stared, speechless for a long time, tears falling from the corners of her eyes.

"Did the imperial physician tell me if it would leave scars?"

"Princess, if you apply the medicine properly, there will be no scars. And I have a bottle of magic medicine for scar treatment, which will definitely be useful." As soon as she finished speaking, Wan Tao thought of the horrible scars on her face, which were so dense and uneven and so hateful. It was really unconvincing for her to say that there was an ointment for scar removal.

So she touched her veil with her hand and explained with a dim look in her eyes: "My scar is quite special, Princess, you will definitely not have the same scar."

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