CH 31

This kind of pressing situation made me immediately feel frightened. What exactly was the matter that the Imperial Guard Jin Chu had to personally come and accompany me, could it be that something had happened to the Emperor?

The more I thought about it, the more flustered I became. Luckily, we very quickly arrived at Muqing Pool’s door.

Jin Chu sent away the imperial guard guarding the door and pushed open the door, he whispered to me, “Liu-gonggong, the Emperor has been poisoned.”

I was stunned, I almost fell, fortunately, he was supporting me.

“Liu-gonggong, don’t worry, it is not a life-threatening poison, but…..” His voice sounded a little awkward, “All in all, the Emperor said that it can only be you, quickly go in, thank you for your trouble.”

His words were a little mystifying, I did not grasp its meaning at all, in my mind, I only knew that the Emperor had been poisoned and he needed me. They wanted me to find an antidote? But I didn’t understand medicine, so why didn’t they summon the imperial physician?

Although I was highly hesitant, I still threw caution to the wind and went inside.

The room with the hot pool was lit by weak candlelight. I saw the Emperor’s silhouette through the paper window in the distance.

I quickly walked up to the door and pushed it open to enter.

The pool water was hot and continuously releasing steam. The Emperor was standing in the middle of the pool, his long hair scattered, and he was not wearing anything.

He raised his head to look at me, his deep eyes at this moment looked vacant, when I looked closely, it seemed that his eyes were unfocused.

“Your Majesty?” I called out softly but he was still looking at me vacantly.

I noticed that his face was extraordinarily red, I suddenly understood what Jin Chu meant by a non life-threatening poison.

After a moment, I took a deep breath and began to undress.

It seemed that it could not wait until the Ten Thousand Year Festival…..

I unhurriedly got into the water, and step by step walked over to the Emperor. In the misty room, I tiptoed over to him and put my arms around his neck, delivering myself to him.

The Emperor’s natural instinct was to pick me up, after that the events that followed became unruly….

I was lying on my side at the side of the pool, my arm was hanging down into the water, the pain arrived like on schedule, my eyes welled up with tears, and mixed in with the hot pool water.

The Emperor did not notice, he only changed the manner of tormenting me, until the break of dawn, it was still not finished.

“Your Majesty….. Stop….” I weakly pushed him, I felt like my entire body was broken, if this continued, I would probably die….

But the Emperor did not hear my plea.

My arm fell down powerlessly and made contact with a wooden ladle. At that moment, I made the decision to save myself.

I used all of my remaining strength to swing the ladle, the Emperor groaned and then fell down, face planting into the water, pool water filtering into his mouth and nose.

Ah, wasn’t I just seeking punishment for myself!

Luckily, he had completely fallen into the water, otherwise with my weak legs and hoarse voice, I was unable to even call for help, let alone jump in to save him.

I used all of my strength to pull his head out of the water.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you can’t die……” If you die I’m done for!

My throat was unbelievably dry, I could not make any real sound. At this moment, I remembered the time I saved that person all those years ago.

That’s right, I only needed to give him mouth to mouth.

So I awkwardly pinched his mouth and then took a deep breath in, leaned over and slowly blew into his mouth.

Finally, he seemed to react slightly. I looked at him with delight but he called out “Ah-Yan” in a confused state.

I immediately moved my hand away from his face, a hole seemed to have torn open in my heart, tears streamed down my face.

So it turned out, the Emperor’s heart was still yearning for He da-ren.

I actually thought that he would forget He da-ren and like me instead, why did I overestimate myself so much!

Enduring the enormous pain, I put on my damp robes and staggered to the door to leave.

Yuan Moshu and Jin Chu were waiting outside at the main entrance, when they saw my battered and exhausted state, they were both a little taken aback.

I did my utmost to hold back the sounds of my weeping, and used my almost lost voice to plead with them to keep this night a secret, if the Emperor did not remember then they should not tell him about it.

I think he definitely wouldn’t remember because I’m not He da-ren.

I looked at them expectantly, Jin Chu was frowning and nodded at me, whilst Yuan Moshu looked distraught as he put a cloak over my shoulders.

It was best to take advantage of the fact that dawn had not completely broken to rush back to Yangxin Palace.

After returning to Yangxin Palace, Yuan Moshu supported me back to my room, and personally went to get me some water to clean up.

“Eunuch Superintendent Yuan, I can do it myself.” I was too embarrassed to let anyone see the current state of my body.

Yuan Moshu guiltily held my hand, he was choked with emotion, “Xiaoyu, it’s all my fault. Last night, it was inappropriate for the Emperor to go there in his situation, plus, he kept asking for you, so I…..”

“I don’t blame you, I was completely willing.”

“Alas…..”

“I’m fine, don’t tell the Emperor.”

I asked him to go outside, and then I slowly looked over myself, washed myself clean and then finally lay down on the bed, with a heart filled with grievance and my eyes filled with tears, until I finally fell into a deep sleep.

It would be best if no one knows this matter, and no one remembers it….