Chapter 288 - Delusion of Persecution!

In the embassy, the Third Prince held Bu Tinghe’s hand and carefully gave advice to her.

“Tinghe, take a good rest these days. Our wedding is delayed for a while, so we can get better prepared. Although I can’t make you my main wife, I will definitely make your wedding more glorious than the main wife’s.”

Bu Tinghe’s gaze trembled, and her eyes glowed with light. She leaned into the Third Prince’s embrace and said in a soft voice, “It’s already my greatest honor to be able to marry you. Even if the wedding is held in a simple way, it won’t matter. I don’t want those unimportant rituals. As long as you can take pity on me, not to mention a side concubine, even if I’m just a bedroom concubine, it doesn’t matter.”

The Third Prince reached out to hold her in his arms and tightened his grip. “I know your feelings for me. Don’t worry, I won’t let you down. Even after I have the main wife in the future, you will still be the woman I care about the most.”

From an angle that the Third Prince could not see, Bu Tinghe gritted her teeth. A layer of cold sweat instantly appeared on her forehead, and she almost pushed the Third Prince away.

After coming out of the Palace, she lay weakly for two days. It was only on the third day that she could barely move. In these three days, the pain in her body grew stronger day by day. It had developed to such an extent that if she touched herself slightly, she would feel like being pricked by needles.

The Third Prince let go of her. Seeing the sweat on her head, he wiped it off for her with his sleeve. “It seems that your body is still very weak. Have a good rest. I will come to see you another day.”

“Alright.” Bu Tinghe was anxious to see him leave, but she had a reluctant expression on her face. “Your Highness, don’t forget me. I miss our child very much.”

“Don’t worry, how could I forget about you?” The Third Prince was very happy to hear that. He covered her with the quilt and said, “Our child is still very weak. It is not good for him to come out. When he is slightly better, I will bring him to see you.”

“Alright.”

When the Third Prince finally went out, Bu Tinghe lay weakly on the bed, gasping for breath, feeling as if she had rolled over a needle plate.

“Someone, someone, come!”

“Princess.” The maid guarding the door hurriedly ran over.

“Go find my Sixth Elder Brother, hurry up!”

“Yes, Your Highness, please have patience. I am going now.”

An hour later, Bu Jinglan slowly walked in with an impatient expression. “Are you looking for me?” His face was a little pale and his eyes were dark green. It was obvious that he had not rested well for several days.

Bu Tinghe was in so much pain that she could not see anything wrong with him. “Sixth Elder Brother, you must help me. Shen Ninghua must have done something to me. You should find a trusted imperial doctor to check for me.”

“You are going to marry the Third Prince with six cities as your dowry. Neither Prince An nor the Emperor wants anything bad to happen to you, so Shen Ninghua absolutely does not dare to do anything. Moreover, the midwives who helped you deliver that day are all His Majesty’s people. How would Shen Ninghua dare to do anything to you?”

Bu Tinghe threw the pillow on the ground anxiously. “Impossible! My entire body is in so much pain that I feel like I’m going to die. It’s as if my entire body is constantly being stabbed by steel needles. How can this be called nothing?”

She had already fetched many imperial doctors to check her pulse, but other than being a little weak, her pulse showed that everything was normal and there were no injuries on her body at all. What could be wrong with her health conditions?

Bu Jinglan took a deep breath and asked with a frown, “Is that what you want to say? If there’s nothing else, I’ll leave first.”

Ever since he listened to Musician Cunxin’s play, the weak and easily bullied character in the depths of his heart showed signs of re-emerging, even at night. He had not slept well for several days, which made his head buzz all the time. Now, Bu Tinghe’s sharp voice made him have a splitting headache.

“Sixth Elder Brother!”

“Shut up!” Bu Jinglan suddenly turned his head and glared at Bu Tinghe. His fierce eyes carried a tyrannical aura, shocking Bu Tinghe to the point that she abruptly stopped speaking.

“Sixth Elder Brother…You…Is your old illness acting up?” Bu Tinghe’s pupils continuously contracted as a trace of fear flashed through her eyes.

Bu Jinglan suddenly closed his eyes and stabilized the emotions in his heart. “I will get a doctor to treat you. Just wait with patience.”

“Alright…Sixth Elder Brother, are you alright?”

“What can be wrong with me?” Bu Jinglan stood up and walked out. His expression calmed down after a few changes. “Rest in peace for now. Don’t say anything about Shen Ninghua doing anything to you. If you don’t have any evidence, it’s easy to land yourself in trouble. You won’t tell me that you don’t know what you should do right now, will you?”

“I know. Right now, the most important thing is to marry the Third Prince safely.” Seeing the impatient look in Bu Jinglan’s eyes, Bu Tinghe hurriedly said.

“It’s good that you understand. If you ruin Father Emperor and Prince An’s plan, no one can help you and you shall just wait to die.”

“I won’t.”

“That would be best.” After Bu Jinglan finished speaking, he directly walked out.

At home, Shen Ninghua was holding a ball with colorful threads and teasing the two babies who were lying side by side on the bed.

Hong Ling walked in with a smile. “Miss, it is as you expected. Princess Wenhe invited many doctors over these days. It was said that they went to take her pulse and offer prescriptions for improving her health.”

Shen Ninghua lowered the ball and raised it again when the boy was about to catch it.

The boy on the bed moved his little fat hands in a daze as if he didn’t know why the ball was gone. It took him a while to realize what had happened. Then, his big eyes began to follow the ball again.

“I understand. Let her do whatever she liked. No matter how many doctors she sees, it won’t be of any help.”

Hong Ling nodded with a smile. After reporting today’s news, her eyes lit up as she stared at the babies on the bed. “Miss, the two young masters are really amazing. I have seen many children. When they were this young, they would always cry and make noise. None of them is as quiet as the young masters.”

Like other mothers, Shen Ninghua instantly laughed after hearing her children were praised. “They are only months old, but they can already understand what I mean. They are really my good babies.” That day when she entered the Palace, she told the two babies and they actually understood her and didn’t cry or make a fuss for a whole day.

Hong Ling laughed and replied, “That’s right. The two young masters will definitely listen to you in the future and be filial to you and Master.”

Shen Ninghua nodded and placed the ball in the girl’s hand. When the boy saw it, he did not reach out to snatch it. Instead, he grinned and watched from the side.

Hong Ling was extremely surprised. “Bei Zi knows to show modesty to his younger sister at such a young age.”

Shen Ninghua reached out and patted the chubby son. A bright smile appeared on her face. “Good boy!”

Bai Ruo walked in quickly and bowed. “Miss, a person working for Princess Wenhe came. He said that Princess Wenhe wanted you to go to the embassy to treat her.”

Shen Ninghua motioned the nurses to carry the two children away. She straightened her sleeves and asked, “Did they bring something over?”

“Yes, the person who came to invite you is Prince An’s trusted aide. He also carried two large boxes of gifts. He said that Prince An felt sorry to trouble you to go to the embassy and he specially sent you a gift.”

“Go and tell him that I’m not feeling well. I’m afraid that I might infect Princess Wenhe, so I won’t go. Also, tell him the Academy of Imperial Physicians has many imperial doctors and their medical skills are a hundred times better than mine. If there’s really a need, he can go to the Academy of Imperial Physicians.”

Bai Ruo nodded. “Yes, Miss, I will go right now.”

“Well, tell him to carry the gift away.”

“Yes.”

Shen Ninghua looked at the fragrant orchid in the vase in the room and smiled gently. She thought to herself, “It’s better for Bu Tinghe to suffer now, in case she makes trouble for me every few days.”

After a while, Bai Ruo returned.

“Miss, the person left, but he did not bring those gifts away. He said that it was Prince An who personally ordered him to send the gift here. Even if Miss does not go to the embassy, this gift must be left here as a thank-you gift for your help to Princess Wenhe in the Palace.”

“Thank-you gift?”

“Yes. Miss, do you want me to send it back?”

Shen Ninghua pondered for a moment and shook her head. “The things are already here. If I return them, I will seem too unreasonable. Anyway, they are just some lifeless things. Tell Bi Zhu to mark them and then put them in the warehouse.”

“Yes.”

When Bu Tinghe heard that Shen Ninghua refused to come, she was so angry that she smashed the medicine bowl. At this time, the pain in her whole body almost drove her mad. She pulled down the bed curtain like a maniac.

“Damn it, bitch! Shen Ninghua, it must be her. She must be laughing at me behind my back now!”

Prince An walked in and saw the mess on the ground. His face was extremely gloomy. “What are you doing?”

Bu Tinghe raised her head, and her expression was still anxious. “Father, it’s Shen Ninghua. Shen Ninghua must be trying to harm me. She poisoned me, that is why my whole body is in pain. Maybe I will die in two days. Father, please save me.”

“Shut up! Look at yourself now. You don’t act like a noble lady at all. No wonder you look neither human nor ghost soon after you came here!”

Hearing this, Bu Tinghe suddenly pounded the bedside and then cried out in alarm, “Ah, it hurts! My hand is broken, my hand is about to break.”

Prince An gritted his teeth in anger. “You just lightly touched the bedside. How could it be broken?”

Bu Tinghe was not in the mood to listen, thinking that she was about to die. “My bones must have been made extremely fragile by Shen Ninghua. Now that my hand is broken, perhaps all the bones in my body will be broken in two days. At that time, my body will be like a pile of mud, ah!”

Prince An was so shocked by her loud scream that he took two steps back. Then, anger rose in his heart. He stepped forward and slapped her in the face. “Calm down!”

Bu Tinghe felt as if a sledgehammer had smashed into her face, and she fainted with a flip of her eyes.

“Tinghe, Tinghe? Someone, quickly call the imperial doctors.”

An hour later.

Prince An waited for Doctor Chen to take Bu Tinghe’s pulse before stepping forward and saying in a light voice, “Thank you, Doctor Chen, for coming here personally. How is my daughter?”

“Prince An is too polite. Princess Wenhe’s pulse is slightly weak and her body is fine.”

“But she kept saying that her whole body was in pain, and she fainted from the pain.”

Chen Yun pondered for a long time. “There are so many kinds of strange diseases in the world. I also heard that after a woman finished giving birth, she still felt that there is something in her belly. In fact, it is just an illusion. Perhaps Princess Wenhe has never experienced the pain of delivery and has not yet recovered. I will prescribe some medicine to calm her mind. She should be fine after several days.”

“Alright, thank you, Doctor Chen.”

Chen Yun nodded. After he wrote the prescription, he walked out as Prince An expressed his thanks. After getting into the carriage, there was a smile on his upright face.

Princess Zhaohua’s wine brewing skills were really good. Those two jars of wine was not much, so he must not drink it up too soon.