Chapter 136: Emperor's Secret Weapon

"Your highness. I hope she wakes up soon."

"Is she still ill? Did you check her temperature?"

Lyca frowned when she heard voices that seemed too close to her face.

"Yes. The fever had subsided, but I believe she is still sick. Look at her face? It is so pale."

"Can you call the Royal Doctor?"

"And tell him what? That she is not waking up? She is not dead…."

"Shut your mouth! Do you know the consequences of talking like this in front of the Princess?"

A long stretch of silence followed the woman's words. Princess? Royal Doctor? Slowly, Lyca opened her eyes. The pain in her head immediately made her hissed.

"Your highness… you are awake!"

"Call the Royal Doctor!"

"Someone call— "

"No," Lyca uttered, still confused. "Don't call anyone."

"Your— Your highness but your wound…"

"Leave." She said in a cold tone, her face still pale from the memories that are starting to swirl inside her head. 

"Your highness— "

"Everyone… leave the room," Lyca said as she held her head and let out a curse inwardly. As someone who had transmigrated into another body before, she was quite familiar with this scene. She eyed her jade-like hand before she closed her eyes and slowly absorbed everything that she can.

This wasn't the first time that Lyca experienced something like this. When she traveled to Lyca's body, she was about five or six years old. At that time, little Lyca fell into the pool and almost died. She fell into a coma for a few days. When she woke up in that body, Lyca felt the same pain that she was feeling now. 

Lyca couldn't understand what was happening. However, her hand slowly touched her neck. Just as she expected, the necklace was no longer there. For some reason, she felt that this had something to do with the necklace. After analyzing her current state, Lyca immediately let the memories of this body inside her brain.

Slowly, her already pale face turned paler as her hands clenched into tight fists. This….

Why was she here?

When Lyca opened her eyes again, the coldness from her orbs seemed to make the temperature inside the room dropped a degree lower. She was back in her previous world. She stared at the sky blue canopy in her bed before she examined the room.

She was indeed back in her previous world. This was the world where Xu Ke killed her. And based on this body's memories…. This was only one year after the massacre. Lyca trembled as she gritted her teeth. She was currently the Second Princess Ye Bai of the Xu Empire. 

Currently, the Ye Family was having a power struggled against the Xu Family who seemed to become stronger overnight. Many people had wondered why the Xu Family suddenly changed. Even the Royal Family had sent their spies to acquire such information. However, not one of them returned.

Of course, Lyca knew it was because they got all the resources of the Huang Family that they killed on that wedding day.

"Princess Ye Bai!" the door of the room opened with a loud thud as a woman wearing a yellow dress strode inside.

"Imperial mother." Lyca forced the words out of her mouth as she tried to sit on her bed. While she doesn't feel any physical pain, Lyca still acted weak in front of the Imperial Concubine, the current favorite of the Emperor. She tried to remember everything she could from this body and immediately concluded that acting weak would be her best course of action before she would decide what to do in this world.

"My dear daughter…. This mother failed you. This mother was useless. This mother deserved to be punished for letting you save my life. " The Imperial concubine immediately started crying as if her pet just died. Lyca forced the urge to retort the woman. Since the Imperial concubine had been acting like this, it only means that someone was watching. Was the Emperor coming to see her?

Just as she expected, the thin voice of a Eunuch suddenly announced the Emperor's arrival.

"It's alright. You don't have to force yourself to stand up." The Emperor's words surprised everyone inside Lyca's quarters. She immediately lowered her head, hiding the torrents of emotions in her eyes. The Royal Family was full of treacherous people. She was certain this Emperor came here today not because he actually cared for his daughter.

It should be because of something else. Was it a marriage agreement? Lyca couldn't help but wonder what could be so important that it would make the emperor come here and personally see her.

"I heard that your wounds are mostly healed?" the Emperor said.

"Yes, your highness."

"Good. "Then he looked at everyone else in the room. "Leave us." He said. After a few minutes, the Emperor cleared his throat. "I want you to get close to the heir of the Xu Family."

She raised her head at his words. Meeting the Emperor's eyes, Lyca struggled to contain her current emotion. "Xu Family…."

"I have heard that the heir of the Xu Family, Xu Ke is a cold man who doesn't like the traditional weak women. There had been talks of engagement in the past months, but the Xu Family never accepted anything."

Lyca gulped. "Your highness… no one knows that I am General Bai."

The Emperor's eyes narrowed. "Let him know that you are General Bai."

Lyca bit her lips as she slowly nodded. Right now, she doesn't have any choice but to agree to the man's words.

"Good. You should take more time to rest. You will see him in the upcoming banquet," The Emperor said coldly before leaving. Seeing the Emperor disappear from her quarter, Lyca heaved a long sigh as she thought about his words. 

She tried to rummage her memories and immediately found what she was looking for. She, Ye Bai was actually a general— a woman pretending to be a man. She was considered as the Emperor's Secret weapon— someone that he personally trained himself.

It seems that no matter where she went, chaos would eventually follow her around. What a drag.