The Cold King Demands Love and Pleasure

Xia Tongsheng smiled, her eyes sparkling, and gently looked at Min Youan's aloof and handsome face. "Your Majesty, I know my crime! How does Your Highness intend to punish me?"

As if certain that he wouldn't actually punish her for being sick, she deliberately provoked him!

Min Youan bent down little by little, his handsome face slowly magnifying in Xia Tongsheng's pupils. "Don't make that expression, or I'll think you need my nourishment!"

She understood the implication in his words, blushed, and dared not look at him. "Don't be so lewd!"

Min Youan gently rubbed his nose against her rosy cheeks, "Once you recover, I'll show you what a real rogue is!"

Xia Tongsheng's eyes flickered, "Then may I request that I not undergo rehabilitation?"

Min Youan shook his head, increasing the pressure with his nose, "No!"

Then he abruptly pulled back her blanket, wrapped his arms around her waist, and Xia Tongsheng looked at him warily, "What are you doing?"

"I do want to do something, but your current physical condition... I'm afraid it's not enough to handle me!"

"Hey, did you take some kind of aphrodisiac today?" Xia Tongsheng couldn't understand why this boy had suddenly switched to automatic courtship mode ever since she woke up. Wasn't he always the one who disliked her? What's wrong with him today!

Where is the ascetic face and the aloof prince we were promised?

He held her in his arms, suppressing the desire in his eyes. "Let's go, the imperial physician is here!"

Xia Tongsheng breathed a sigh of relief, but remembering what Doctor Yu from Baiyue had said, she immediately started to worry again. Her pulse indicated pregnancy, and if the imperial physician diagnosed her as pregnant, she wouldn't be able to explain it clearly.

She struggled, saying, "Your Highness, I won't go!"

"No!" Min Youan gave her absolutely no chance to escape!

Xia Tongsheng pleaded, "Your Highness, I beg you, I don't want to see a doctor!"

"reason!"

She casually made up a story: "I'm afraid the imperial physician will pronounce me dead! Your Highness, can't you just let me live for a couple more days?"

When Min Youan heard her say that, his eyes darkened, and he stopped talking. He simply held her tightly in his arms. When they arrived at the front hall, despite Xia Tongsheng's best efforts to struggle, she was unable to break free from his embrace.

Finally, she was exhausted and stopped struggling.

Upon seeing Min You'an, the imperial physician immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Your Highness!"

Min Youan nodded to the imperial physician, placed Xia Tongsheng on a stool, and said to the physician, "Let's begin!"

"Yes!"

After carefully examining the princess for a long time, the imperial physician withdrew his hand and respectfully said to Min You'an, "Your Highness is fine, but she is too weak. I will prescribe some blood-activating and qi-tonifying medicine for her later!"

Xia Tongsheng listened nervously to the imperial physician's conclusion, fearing he might reveal that she was pregnant! Unexpectedly, the imperial physician did not mention it at all.

However, just as the old doctor in the clinic said, there was no other doctor in the capital who could diagnose her poisoning.

Min Youan frowned. "Not poisoned?"

"Judging from the princess's pulse, there are no signs of poisoning!"

Min Youan nodded with a stern face.

He only knew that the Slow Robe was a slow-acting poison, but Cang Jue did not tell him that if he was poisoned by the Slow Robe, no doctor other than the doctors in Miao territory could diagnose it.

So when he heard the imperial physician say that Xia Tongsheng was not poisoned, his first reaction was that she was lying, but her unconscious state did not seem to be faking it.

After a long day, Xia Tongsheng wanted to return to the East Garden. She bowed to Min You'an and said, "Your Highness, I will take my leave now!"

He nodded, watching her slightly staggering figure as she walked away, lost in thought.

Back at the East Garden, Xia Tongsheng didn't rush to sleep. Instead, she carefully looked around the room to see if anything had been moved, hoping to find out if Gu Xue had already taken the Slow Robe.

But after looking around, everything in the room remained exactly the same, unchanged. Xia Tongsheng began to doubt her deduction, "Could I have guessed wrong?"

Yingling was a little worried because she hadn't eaten lunch. "Miss, don't think about it. Let's eat something first!"

"Alright!" Before leaving, Xia Tongsheng turned to look at the furnishings in the room one last time, still somewhat unwilling to give up.

Xia Tongsheng found the meal tasteless, but considering her physical condition, she forced herself to eat a little.

After the meal, Yingling helped Xia Tongsheng finish washing up, then helped her sit on the bed and planned to take the water from her face out to throw away.

Seeing her busy figure, Xia Tongsheng felt a little sorry for her, thinking that she had been busy all day without rest. "Yingling, you should go back and rest first!"

"Miss, are you sure you can manage on your own?"

"It's fine! Don't worry!" Xia Tongsheng reassured her.

Yingling sighed, took the basin of water from washing her face outside, and closed the door for Xia Tongsheng.

She leaned against the bed, staring blankly into space. She had thought finding the Slow Robe would be a simple matter, so she wasn't afraid. But now, she was starting to worry.

A sense of helplessness welled up inside me, and I recalled the dream I had at noon, in which my mother gently stroked my face.

She struggled to her feet and took a small box inlaid with rubies from the wardrobe. From inside, she took out a blood-red jade bracelet and gently stroked it. "Mother, I missed you!"

"By the way, Dad misses you too. How are you doing over there? Take good care of yourself!" She put the jade bracelet on her wrist, just like when her mother used to hold her hand.

A tear fell onto the jade bracelet with a "plop." "I never thought our family's fate would be so short. I didn't get to spend enough time with you before you left. Do you know, meeting you and Dad was the greatest blessing of my life!"

"In the years since you left, I've stayed with my master. Although life was poor, it was peaceful! But since I came back, although I live a life of luxury every day, I feel so tired!"

"..."

After confiding her grievances to the bracelet, Xia Tongsheng felt much better. She wiped away her tears, blew out the candles, and lay down on the bed.

However, I feel like my pillow is a little different today.

She got up again, glanced at the pillow, and saw no difference. She picked up the pillow and sniffed it.

I always drool in my sleep, so my pillow always smells like drool. But there's nothing on this pillow.

Could it be?

She quickly got up, relit the candle, and brought the pillow close to the candlelight. Sure enough, it was just as she had thought.

Although the pattern, thread color, and stitches of this pillow are the same as the original, a couple of days ago when she took a nap, her hairpin accidentally poked a small hole in the side of the pillow, but now the small hole is gone!

Xia Tongsheng had to praise Gu Xue for being a clever person. She knew that Gu Xue had a habit of sleeping with a high pillow, so she must have put the Slow-Slaying Poison inside her pillow. By pressing her head down, the Slow-Slaying Poison would seep from the pillow core to the pillow surface.

Since I always sleep on my side, my mouth is in contact with the pillow, and I could easily ingest poison by occasionally licking my lips.

Truly, a woman's heart is the most poisonous!