In the novel "Joy of Life," the protagonist wakes up at Li Chengze's residence.

Li Chengze flicked her forehead again: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

He played very lightly, but Tao Jingyang felt as if there was a slight electric shock when he played her.

She covered her forehead and muttered softly, "Why is there so much static electricity?"

Li Chengze frowned, puzzled: "What do you mean by static electricity?"

He then remembered something else he didn't understand and asked, "And what did you mean by 'okay' and 'around eight o'clock' earlier?"

The latter was taken aback. During the time she spent with Li Chengze, she had almost overlooked the fact that he did not understand "modern" vocabulary.

She thought for a moment and explained:

Static electricity is like picking up mustard seeds;

"OK" means good or okay;

"A little after eight o'clock" means it is currently the hour of Xu (7-9 PM).

Although she explained it, Li Chengze still seemed to only have a vague understanding:

"I've never heard of such a description before. Is it some kind of local dialect?"

Hearing Li Chengze's question, Tao Jingyang felt inexplicably excited: [Now, surely no one will bother us anymore?]

All I heard her say was, "Chengze, that's an adjective used to describe me. You know, I'm not like that..."

! ! ! ! !

A whistle suddenly went off in my head, and my ears were filled with a cacophony of noise.

"drop--------"

A sharp and piercing sound seemed to rise from all directions at the same time, tightly imprisoning Tao Jingyang.

She tried to make a sound, but even with all her might, she couldn't control the muscles around her throat.

Tao Jingyang could no longer even tell whether his eyes were open or closed.

I wasn't sure if I was asleep or awake.

It was as if there was only chaos in my soul, without a trace of clarity.

"I am not a person of this era..." These were the words Tao Jingyang did not say aloud.

[Preventing...the...Heaven...Those...of...consciousness...from...awakening......self-repairing...] The cold, robotic voice echoed in Tao Jingyang's already unconscious mind.

In Tao Jingyang's memory, she seemed to have struggled for a long time.

But to onlookers, Li Chengze only saw that her bright eyes suddenly turned gray, and then her body seemed to fall straight towards him uncontrollably.

There wasn't even a moment's time in between.

He has seen what people look like when they die.

Those people Xie Bi'an had dealt with before also had empty eyes and fell straight to the ground.

Although he was somewhat flustered at this moment, he was at least calmer than before.

Li Chengze caught her just as she was about to fall to the ground with lightning speed, feeling somewhat helpless:

Is he just pretending again?

He hadn't yet realized the danger, and had even wrapped his arm around Tao Jingyang's body, whispering in her ear:

"If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine. I don't care which side you're on."

From the very beginning, Li Chengze believed that Tao Jingyang was either a spy sent by the Northern Qi or the Eastern Yi City to disrupt the Southern Qing.

But he didn't want to expose her, anyway...

As long as they're by my side, nothing else matters.

“Jingyang, Tao Jingyang?” Li Chengze gently poked her cheek.

"Hey, stop pretending. I won't ask anymore. Actually, I don't care that much about your background."

He pinched her chin again and shook her head.

But when he let go, Tao Jingyang's neck slumped down limply.

Even a person who is sound asleep should not react this way.

Li Chengze, who was holding her from behind, finally realized that something was wrong.

"Tao Jingyang? Tao Jingyang!?" No matter how Li Chengze called her, she showed no sign of waking up.

Inside the hall, only Li Chengze's panicked shouts echoed, accompanied only by a continuous, hollow murmur...

After seeing Dr. Li off once again, Li Chengze slumped down beside Tao Jingyang's bed, looking somewhat dejected.

The doctor said he couldn't figure out why the person had suddenly fainted.

It seemed no different from ordinary sleep, but there was absolutely no physical reaction.

Li Chengze watched as he stuck needles into Tao Jingyang's head, covering it completely, even four needles were stuck into his eyelids.

The needle was so long, it would poke into my temple one moment and into the back of my neck the next.

It's prickly like a little hedgehog, but it's a little hedgehog that can't move.

Even medication is ineffective; she can't even swallow. The medicine she's given simply flows back out because her throat is closed.

Li Chengze could only help the person sit up, pressing the acupoint on the throat with one hand and supporting the chin with the other to force the medicine down.

But it didn't help; the person still didn't wake up.

It's been a whole night.

We've tried all the necessary acupuncture and medications, but his pupils still won't focus, and his pulse is very weak.

Dr. Li said he had no other options and could only wait for the person to wake up on their own.

"What if that person doesn't wake up on their own?"

Li Chengze asked the doctor in a hoarse voice. The doctor, who hadn't dared to relax all night, fell silent, his words indistinct, only saying once:

"Miss Tao is blessed by the heavens; she will surely wake up."

He closed his eyes, suppressing the raging storm rising in his soul, and waved to the man, signaling him to get down quickly.

One person sat silently on the edge of Tao Jingyang's bed for a long time.

After a while, he called You Ran, who had been waiting outside the door, in and asked with her head down:

“You Ran, you're the only one who spends the most time with Jing Yang these days.” His gaze shifted to You Ran's face:

"Now that she has inexplicably fainted, have you heard Jing Yang say anything unusual?"

You Ran was extremely anxious outside, but when she came in and heard the Second Prince ask her this, she was momentarily stunned.

"Unusual..."

You Ran stood there for a long time, quickly going through all the conversations she had had since they met.

“Your Highness, Sister Jingyang doesn’t seem to have told me anything unusual.”

At this point, there were almost no clues left about Tao Jingyang.

Could it be that the place she used to stay in was poisoned?

However, Li Chengze had people investigate her background more than once.

He even sent people to Danzhou to investigate, but there was a lot of information about Fan Xian.

As for Tao Jingyang, it's not that there's almost nothing, but rather that there's absolutely nothing.

"Fan Xian..." Li Chengze murmured the name to himself.