As soon as she opened her eyes, she was forcibly carried back to the East Palace by the paranoid pri

The night gradually falls, and the rising glow in the east dispels the darkness and brings growing hope.

"Cough, cough, cough!" He Yue leaned in Ning Rushong's arms and coughed softly, gasping for breath. She slept uneasily at night, feeling panicky and waking up many times.

His black hair had not yet been tied up, and the scattered hair on his cheeks made him look even paler than fine porcelain. He looked thin and cold, with a look of fatigue.

Every time she woke up with a start, Ning Rushong would gently stroke her back and wipe the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief. She would become more and more afraid, but her body could not bear it, so she could only sink into the next nightmare in panic.

Over and over again, tossing and turning, until dawn.

Ning Rushong stroked He Yue's back in his arms and helped her breathe smoothly. The female doctor Hui Qing brought the warmed medicine and carefully placed it on the table, then bowed and left.

When Huiqing was in the Duan family, she thought the head of the family was the most powerful and frightening person in the world. He had a gentle smile on his face, but he always made people feel scared. The prince was even colder, almost stripping away his humanity and making people feel like they were in the coldest winter.

He Yue gave up and buried herself in Ning Rushong's arms, saying weakly, "I don't want to take the medicine."

The medicine became even more bitter after the formula was changed. Once you take a sip, the taste is so unbearable that you can’t even recall it.

"Good medicine tastes bitter after all." Ning Rusong advised patiently and gently, with his hand on the back of He Yue's neck, "Yueyue, you have to drink the medicine, then your body will be healthy."

He Yue turned her head away and hummed dejectedly. Ning Rushong then placed the medicine in front of her. He had never wanted Yue Yue to take this bitter medicine, but there was no other way.

She took the medicine cup and drank it in a few sips with a frown. Ning Rushong handed her some clean water to rinse her mouth at the right time, and then fed her a few dried fruits to almost suppress the bitterness.

Ning Rusong stood up and put He Yue on a stool covered with soft silk. "Yueyue, put your hair into a bun and change your clothes. Let's go have breakfast. After breakfast, we will leave the palace and go to the villa."

He called the palace maid in to serve him, and sat on a chair not far away. It always takes some time for a woman to dress up.

Four palace maids entered the palace, "Greetings to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Crown Princess. Greetings, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the Crown Princess!"

Xiao Taozi went behind the Crown Princess and combed her hair for her. However, Moer had proven herself to be a very clumsy person during her several months as a palace maid and could only pass her hairpins.

He just couldn't understand why there were so many kinds of hairstyles and why so many hairpins were needed. It was not easy to be a woman.

Xiao Taozi was a deft person, and in a short while she had tied up a simple and comfortable soft bun, and pinned it with two soft silver hairpins to secure it. The Crown Princess just wanted to live a comfortable life recently and could not stand all those extravagant pearls and jades.

"Where is Li Momo?" He Yue asked curiously when she saw that Li Momo was not among the four palace maids. She always paid more attention to Li Momo.

Moer replied, "Crown Princess, Li Momo followed Eunuch Guan to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Since Li Momo had been enslaved to the Imperial Household Department, she would have to go there sooner or later. Xiao Guanzi had some things to do in the Imperial Household Department, so she took Li Momo with her. After all, she and the Crown Princess were old friends, so Xiao Guanzi was not reluctant to help.

Upon hearing this, the prince stopped spinning his jade ring and asked, "Yueyue, are you going to take that maid to the other garden? She looks too young and doesn't know how to serve others."

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an excellent memory and he remembers the names of almost all the palace maids who serve He Yue, but he seldom calls them by their names, as they are all just servants.

He Yue looked calm as she stared at her beautiful self in the bronze mirror without turning to look at him. "I'll keep her with me for a reminder. She can always remind me of Lijia Village and Mr. He who deceived me."

The tone was teasing, and it was obviously a joke. Ning Rusong also laughed, "Boss He asked me to sleep in the utility room at that time. I gave him a lot of money before Boss He's attitude improved a little."

Now Mr. He calls himself "gu" and Boss He calls herself "a concubine", and the two of them have become a pair of respected and noble couple who are forced to live together.

Xiao Taozi knelt on the ground and adjusted the Crown Princess's outer skirt, flattering her, "Your Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess are a perfect match made in heaven. The gods in heaven have tied the red thread together, and no one can separate them."

Mo'er beside her lowered her head, her fox eyes rolled up for a moment, and no one could separate them. Even He Yue wanted to separate them herself. This little Taozi was worthy of being an old member of the East Palace. She only said things that Dayun Chao Crown Prince liked to hear.

After fastening the final waist belt, He Yue went to have breakfast with Ning Rushong. The palace servants had prepared the food early in the morning to ensure that it would always be warm and delicious for the master to eat at any time.

He Yue put down her chopsticks. She had a poor appetite and ate half a bowl of lotus root porridge and a few shrimp dumplings before stopping. Ning Rushong wanted to ask her to eat more, but forcing her to eat more would be of no use. She had to take care of her body first.

Ning Rushong was worried and felt very unhappy, but Qingyong did not show any sign of it and ate less food than usual.

Xiao Guanzi hurried to the palace gate, followed by Li Momo. He knelt down and saluted hurriedly, "Your servant is late!"

Li Momo obviously looked like she had been crying, her eyes and nose were red, and she knelt down timidly, "I am late!"

Xiao Guanzi was half an hour slower than usual. The prince fixed his cold and oppressive gaze on him and asked calmly, "What happened on the way?"

"This... this..." Xiao Guanzi looked at Li Momo beside him with a worried and hesitant expression, then raised his head cautiously to look at the Crown Princess, "It's also my fault that I went to do the work alone and didn't take care of Li Momo for a while, so I asked her to do the work!"

After that, he knelt down respectfully. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's gaze naturally shifted to the trembling Li Momo. He tapped the table lightly with his slender and clean index finger, "Tell me."

He had no old feelings for the people from Lijia Village. If he could cultivate the prince's kindness by living there for a few months, then the palace servants in Changxin Palace would not have to live in fear for their lives and serve carefully all day long.

Li Momo bent down and knelt on the ground with her hands on the ground, and said in a whisper, "I am on the palace road..."

The sound is as soft as that of a mosquito or an ant, almost inaudible.

"That's unruly." The prince interrupted her suddenly, slightly raising his cold eyelids, "Louder."

He Yue, who was sitting next to her, tightened the handkerchief in her hand, her pretty eyebrows slightly raised. What mistakes could Li Momo, who is so timid, make? What mistakes could she dare to make?

Li Momo was so scared that she burst into tears. She forced herself to speak loudly, "I saw a palace maid being punished and dying on the palace road, and I couldn't help but save her."

"I didn't expect it was Concubine Liu who gave the order. I offended Concubine Liu, and it was Eunuch Guan who rescued me!"

Concubine Liu is the only pregnant concubine in the harem. She has a good family background and is arrogant and domineering.

At that time, the maid was being whipped on the palace path. Li Momo didn't want to help her, but a maid who was watching nearby said, "Forty lashes is enough. She looks like she's going to die. Give her ten more lashes. The master didn't intend to let her live."

She had only learned the rules for half a month, and had never been in the harem, but had always stayed in the East Palace. During this period of time, the Crown Princess had never punished any palace servants, and she did not understand the horror of the deep palace. Although she was timid, she was still simple and kind, so she could not help but stop the whip from coming down.

Later, the palace maid called someone to arrest her, and the news reached Concubine Liu's ears. If Xiao Guanzi hadn't arrived in a hurry, she would have lost her life!