In her sleep, Gu Qianxue suddenly felt her body sink, then felt a biting coldness – puff!
It’s water!
She fell into water?
She was clearly on the airplane, how did she suddenly fall into water?
Gu Qianxue opened her eyes, the water was cold and murky, visibility was extremely low. Could it be that the plane crashed?
Even before she could understand the situation, she sees in front of her a person floating in the water, by looking at the body shape, it’s a man.
Gu Qianxue is a doctor, when she sees an injured person, the first thing she thought of is to rescue. She hurriedly swam over, reached her arms, and embraced the man, then desperately swam in the water heading towards to where the light was.
“Puff!”
“They’re up, they’re up, quick, save Prince Li!” The people by the lake sounded noisily with a lot of people shouting*.
*Literal translation for idiom [七嘴八舌的喊着] = with seven mouths and eight tongue shouted; meaning everybody is trying to talk at the same time.
A noisily racket of people’s voices, among them yelled Prince Li’s name, and yelled daxiaojie (Miss/Eldest Daughter). For a while, the quiet garden became noisy like the food market.
People rescued the unconscious and unawaken Prince Li up on the shore, Gu Qianxue at that time also climbed up ashore.
Not to mention, her body was completely wet, Gu Qianxue only felt that her head was extremely heavy, her four limbs are also severely painful as if lead was poured. Without raising her head, her back was kicked fiercely at, a sudden pain caused the unprepared Gu Qianxue who climbed on the ground to feel more pain spreading from her wound, she couldn’t help but to cry out a low sound.
“People come, take down the assassin.” Among the chaotic noise, a male entertainer’s voice was particularly sharp and intentionally harmful, “Such a bold assassin, you actually dare to harm Your Highness, you’re just not scared of your family’s execution*?”
* (诛九族 zhu jiuzu = punishment to execute the 9 generations/branches of the family to pay for the sins done upon)
Gu Qianxue had yet to figure out the meaning of that sentence when, someone responded back almost immediately, “Eunuch Shao, begging Eunuch Shao to investigate, she is not an assassin, it’s our Gu Residence’s Eldest Young Miss, just now …… must have been some sort of mistake.” The voice that spoke out was full of panic and tremble.
“Misunderstanding? Under the eyes of everyone present here she had pushed our master down the lake, don’t mention about your Gu Residence’s Eldest Young Miss, even if it’s Minister Gu, you also have to mention this to the Emperor!” Eunuch Shao’s voice could not hide his nervousness. “Still blankly staring there for what, take down the person, if anyone dares to resist, kill without pardon!”
An order of killing without pardon, immediately made the people creating chaos* in my garden close their mouths.
*(being noisy)
Everyone was fearful and terrified, the nervous and tensed atmosphere rose up.
The Gu Qianxue that was still lying on the ground was completely dumbstruck of what was happening around her—— Prince Li? Eunuch Shao? Gu Residence’s Eldest Miss? Minister? What is all this? A costume play filming?
Immediately afterwards, several powerful valorous guards stepped forward, taking Gu Qianxue down, ties her hand behind her back, roughly pulling her upright and tied her up in the air.
Gu Qianxue’s whole body could not use any much of her strength, all she saw before her eyes was more darkness, she suddenly had the desire to want to faint. Though intuition told her, that she could not lose consciousness at this period of time, else the consequences would be rather severe.
While thinking, Gu Qianxue gradually calmed herself down, steadying her mood, then she took a deep breath, resisting in the semi-state of consciousness she was in.
“Ah—— Prince Li, Your Royal Highness! Prince Li, Your Royal Highness! You(*) cannot…” Eunuch Shao’s originally raucous voice became a few pitches higher, there is a kind of horrified fear.
(*You – 您, a respectful kind of addressing to a person superior.)
“Quick call the Royal Doctor! Call the Royal Doctor! No, no, quick look for the Great Doctor* quick! Prince Li, his Royal Highness has lost breath!”
*大夫 dafu/Great Doctor – a title given from an organized doctor association formed during Warring Period; the position is lowered than a Royal Doctor but is a common position in common households; in this case they are calling for a Great Doctor because getting a Royal Doctor would take too long; meanwhile Great Doctors are easier accessible.
“Hua!” A one word sound, like a bomb thrown into the sea.
At this time no one dares to watch the good show that was playing out before their eyes, because if Prince Li was really dead, they were afraid that they would have to be buried alongside with him.
Eunuch Shao was so anxious to the point of crying out loud, “Where is the Great Doctor? Where is the Great Doctor? Hurry look for one, else we would all need to die!”
Not long after, there’s a person behind the crowd that shouted out loud, “Gu Residence’s Great Doctor is here, make way, all make way!”
After taking in several deep breaths, gradually became more conscious, she was finally able to open her eyes.
As per what she had predicted, what she had seen were merely of a crowd of people wearing costume drama clothing, looking at those kind of posture, very seriously speaking, how could it be possible for it to be simply acting?
Gu Qianxue once again had the desire to faint once more, transmigration! She had actually… transcended through time!
Gu Qianxue had dreamed but she had never expected, that she would transcend through time, this sort of thing, could swoop down on her, she just merely took a nap on the airplane, how could she transcend through time just like that?
Gu Residence’s gray-haired Great Doctor stretched out his hand to check for Prince Li’s breath, his entire body was shaking like fallen leaves.
“Prince Li, his Royal Highness… he has passed!”