On the other side, after Liu Ruo Qing successfully escaped from King Jing Palace, she did not run too far. Her legs suddenly went soft, and she fell onto the ice-cold ground.
Her nose had never stopped bleeding, and this caused a trace of unease to arise within her heart.
His hand had been scraped by the icy cold ground. It was just a small wound, but blood was seeping out of it at this moment. There was no way to stop it.
She kept using her hand to wipe away the blood on her nose, but the more blood she bled, the more it flowed out. The blood on her face gradually faded, and before she could even return to the inn, she fell at the door.
When she woke up again, she was already lying on the bed in the inn. She felt as if all the strength in her body had been completely sucked out by someone.
She opened her eyes and stared at the top of the bed without saying a word. It was eerily calm.
Qin Xuan stood in front of her, looking at her current appearance, his heart inexplicably stopped. The doctor's judgement just now was similar to what he had said at Chu Yang Pass.
In order to treat a state of blood loss, one had to be able to find Shen Gu Zi, but those were all people from thirty years ago. Even if they were still alive, they might not necessarily be able to find him.
What a pity …
In Qin Xuan's heart, he could only think of this three words. At the same time, he explained the strange feeling of being blocked in his chest.
He was only pining for a genius, so he felt a bit uncomfortable inside.
"Your Highness."
Liu Ruo Qing suddenly called out to him, pulling him back from her thoughts.
"Are you all right?"
Qin Xuan sat down beside her, missing his previous schadenfreude.
"Not good."
Liu Ruo Qing answered very straightforwardly, her gaze turned to look at Qin Xuan, her pale white smile pulling him apart.
"Every time, I have to trouble you to save me. Now, you, on the other hand, are my savior."
For some reason, after hearing Liu Ruo Qing's words, Qin Xuan's heart was a little upset, as if all the carefreeness from before had disappeared.
He looked at her and asked: "You went to look for Yan Yuan last night?"
The expression on the corner of Liu Ruo Qing's mouth stiffened, but she didn't deny it. She only smiled wryly, and when she thought back to Yan Yuan's appearance at that time, her heart still ached.
"Since you can't bear to part with him, why should you avoid him?"
Liu Ruo Qing propped herself up and sat. After resting for an entire night, she felt a little better.
She did not answer Qin Xuan's question, but asked casually: "Has the Prince found me a doctor yet?"
Qin Xuan was startled for a moment. Looking at the medicine that was still steaming, he nodded his head, "Mn."
"What did the doctor say?"
Liu Ruo Qing actually had some doubts in her heart. After all, she had studied this kind of situation personally, and if she had said that she thought that it was because of the dry weather, she would not have felt that the situation was so simple now.
Qin Xuan's eyes flickered, as though he wanted to hide the truth about Liu Ruo Qing's illness, and said: "The doctor said that your body is weak recently, and you need to rest more."
Liu Ruo Qing's eyes stared straight at Qin Xuan, not saying a word. On the contrary, it made Qin Xuan feel even more uncomfortable.
Liu Ruo Qing's eyes were too sharp and hot, causing him to lose in the end.
Blood disease?
Liu Ruo Qing was startled, she had not interacted much with Chinese medicine and did not know what kind of disease it was. However, her instincts told her that it was of the same nature as the disease she understood.
"Don't worry, this isn't an incurable disease."
Looking at her stupefied expression, Qin Xuan thought that she had been scared. He could not bear it any longer and comforted her.
Although he didn't have much experience comforting people, it was obvious that he had done his best for her.
Liu Ruo Qing actually gave a free and easy smile, and indifferently shrugged her shoulders, "Is the Prince trying to comfort me?"
Qin Xuan's expression stiffened, and his expression became slightly stiff.
She let out a faint laugh and got off the bed. Looking out the window at the sky full of flying snow, her eyes were filled with confusion. "I've already died once. No matter what it is, it's not a big blow to me."
She was only glad that she didn't let Yan Yuan find out that he was still alive. She had never felt as lucky as she did now.
Qin Xuan was a little surprised by her reaction. It was clear that she knew what the outcome of his illness would be, but he was surprised to realize that she could calmly face life and death.
"You don't plan to let Yan Yuan know?"
Qin Xuan asked, at the moment, he couldn't tell what he was feeling.
"Since I'm going to die anyway, why should I let him know that I'm still alive? I gave him hope, so he can accompany me in death. Isn't that cruel?"
She had given him hope, but had also forcibly extinguished it. How could she bear to be cruel?
It would be better to let him think that she was dead. Perhaps after a long time, he would finally figure it out.
To Liu Ruo Qing, Qin Xuan was only an outsider. Therefore, he could not empathize with the feelings between the two of them, but from the rumors, he could still tell how much Yan Yuan loved his wangfei.
Letting him accompany her in death was indeed a bit cruel.
Now, he knew that any additional comfort would be of no use, so he decided to just not say anything.
Prince Lu's Mansion —
"Elder sister!"
The unconscious Liu Tian Xin suddenly sat up from the bed, her hair drenched with cold sweat.
"What's wrong?"
Yan Jue, who was sitting beside her, nervously leaned over and probed her forehead.
"The fever is finally gone."
He held Liu Tian Xin's slightly ice-cold hand and asked: "You've had a high fever these past few days, and frightened me."
Liu Tian Xin slowly turned her head. When her unfocused gaze met with Yan Jue's worried eyes, his eyes suddenly reddened.
"Did you have a nightmare?"
Liu Tian Xin nodded as the tip of his nose twitched, "When I dreamed of Ruo Qing, she kept bleeding from her nose. She couldn't be stopped no matter what.
"You called me big sister just now because you called me Ruo Qing?"
Because the two had similar appearances, Yan Jue knew that his wife had always been close to Ruo Qing.
In the days when Ruo Qing had just left, she had been sick for an entire month before she managed to slightly improve. But in the recent few days, she had mysteriously gotten sick again.
This made Yan Jue so anxious that he almost turned white like Yan Yuan.
Liu Tian Xin was startled, she did not remember herself calling out "big sister" before, but she could feel the closeness between her and Liu Ruo Qing, which was something other people could not understand.
If it wasn't for everything she knew that proved that she was the Empress Chen's child and that the Empress Chen only had one child, she would have definitely believed that Liu Ruo Qing was her sister.
Nevertheless, she always felt that there were many unexplainable coincidences involved.
For example, she owned half of the Jiang Family's jade pendant at the same time as Ruo Qing, for example, they looked exactly the same, was this really just a coincidence?