Shangjing, Prince Su Mansion!
The guards watched their ruthless and cold Prince with a delicate and fragile girl hanging from his arm, their eyes nearly popping out.
Damn!
This is scarier than seeing a ghost!
Is it that their lifespan is coming to an end, which is why they're seeing this scene?
"Originally, going to Tomb Guard City was to see how many children could escape this time. According to my divination, three should have left the city. But at the city gate, the divination changed again, indicating none survived. In the end... this daring girl came out, truly strange and wondrous."
Dongfang Chenyuan glanced at Yu Nianzhao, who was hanging on Xie Jiuxiao's arm, feeling curious and secretly considering whether to divine her fate. He discreetly made some calculations on his fingers.
Yet the more he calculated, the more cold sweat appeared on Dongfang Chenyuan's forehead.
"Oh my, how peculiar!"
Dongfang Chenyuan exclaimed in disbelief, his trembling hand shaking in shock.
"What's going on? Why are you shouting?"
Xie Jiuxiao's sinister gaze swept over, while Yu Nianzhao, hanging on him, also opened her eyes, staring at Dongfang Chenyuan with a smile that wasn't a smile.
Dongfang Chenyuan involuntarily shivered, dryly smiled, and waved his hand, "No... nothing!"
"Ms Jiang, prepare the water and take her to bathe and change."
Xie Jiuxiao extended his finger to push her away from his forehead, eyes full of disdain, "You're too dirty, your whole body stinks. If you don't wash, don't expect to be near me anymore."
Yu Nianzhao pouted, "Fine, I'll wash."
Anyway, the Evil Qi absorbed this time has healed her wound, and there is no immediate danger to her life now.
The robust Ms Jiang stepped forward, seeing Yu Nianzhao so close to Xie Jiuxiao, yet still lively, she cried tears of joy.
She had cared for Xie Jiuxiao since he was a child, enduring the hardship of the cold palace days. Once Prince Su Mansion was completed, he brought her over from the palace.
Unfortunately, the Evil Qi surrounding the Prince was too heavy; ordinary women simply couldn't bear it here, leaving only her as the lone woman in the mansion.
Watching as the Emperor already had three Princes and two Princesses, while her own Prince couldn't even get close to a woman, she was naturally very anxious.
She thought the Prince would remain single all his life, but suddenly a young girl appeared. How could she not be happy?
Never mind what the little girl looked like, even a beggar from the street or a female mosquito was a good start.
Ms Jiang wiped away her tears, smiling warmly at Yu Nianzhao, kindly said, "You're Miss Yu, right? This old servant will take the lady to bathe now."
After Yu Nianzhao left with Ms Jiang, Dongfang Chenyuan rushed up to Xie Jiuxiao, his handsome face wrinkling into folds, "Prince, this girl is extraordinary. I secretly divined for her earlier, do you know what the divination revealed? It was the omen of disaster, the omen of death, meaning in my divination, she's a dead person! No wonder she can come close to the Prince, only the dead wouldn't fear the Evil Qi surrounding the Prince."
Xie Jiuxiao sat calmly, tapping his distinct finger joints on the table, he solemnly said, "If she's dead, would you, Dongfang Chenyuan, not see it? If she's a ghost, would your Sanqing Bell not ring? Dongfang Chenyuan, have you been away from the Dongfang Family too long and regressed?"
Dongfang Chenyuan was stunned, awkwardly smiled over his pale face, "Seems like it, look at her lively expression, not at all like a walking corpse, how strange. My divination clearly showed... strange, strange. I haven't seen such a fluctuating divination in ages. Could it be, she's a variable herself?"
Xie Jiuxiao recalled her words in the carriage, and closed his eyes heavily, "Back then, Mr. Dongfang divined for me, the words only known by me, my imperial brother, Mr. Dongfang and you. She not only recited them word for word, but also said... I would die a violent death within ten days."
"What?"
Dongfang Chenyuan abruptly stood up, tremblingly said, "I was still young at that time, how does this girl know about the divination?"
Mu Hongxuan's eyes showed hostility, his long sword already out of its scabbard, "Clearly it's nonsense, dying a violent death in ten days? Is she cursing the Prince? She's asking for death!"
Xie Jiuxiao slowly opened his eyes, deep in thought, he suppressed, "She said aside from full body of Evil Qi, I'm also highly poisoned, Renjian, go to the Imperial Hospital and get Mr. Chen."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
Yiu Renjian dashed off 'whoosh'.
In the annex, Ms Jiang personally bathed Yu Nianzhao, though firmly refused.
Still very enthusiastically cleaning her straw-like hair, when seeing Yu Nianzhao's back with new and old scars, her hands softened, eyes full of compassion.
Such a young girl, how did she end up with so many injuries?
"Zhaozhao, do your wounds... hurt?"
Ms Jiang's voice was trembling. The Prince entrusted Yu Nianzhao to her care, at this moment she treated her like her own child, wishing she could beat those who harmed her.
"It doesn't hurt anymore..."
"How can it not hurt? Look at these wounds, they were stabbed by a knife, right? And burned by a candle? Even if the wounds don't hurt, the heart must ache."
Ms Jiang sniffed, touching the scar, felt Yu Nianzhao's body flinch, and couldn't help but say with empathy, "Such a young girl, isn't she destined to marry and have children? What heartless parents would let their child endure this?! They're simply scum."
Hit the nail on the head!
Indeed, the self-righteous Marquis and his wife are scum, unaware of it.
When Yu Nianzhao was dressed, her ethereal and refined appearance, like a fairy from a painting, stunned Ms Jiang.
"Zhaozhao, you're really beautiful. If you have a child with the Prince, it'll surely be an extremely handsome child."
Ms Jiang, this moment, already imagined them having a child in her mind.
Yu Nianzhao's expression became awkward. She indeed planned to stay by Xie Jiuxiao's side for a while, to absorb the Evil Qi for her survival, but never thought of marrying or having a child with him!
"Ms Jiang, have you been frequently having headaches and chills?"
Seeing a trace of black Qi on Ms Jiang's chubby face, she couldn't help but change the topic, asking seriously.
Returning to the human world, her first warmth was from Ms Jiang, whom she liked very much, and she didn't want anything to happen to her.
Ms Jiang clapped her hand, surprisingly asked, "Oh? Zhaozhao, how did you know? I did feel unwell earlier, but now seeing you, I feel much better. However, in Prince Su Mansion, the Evil Qi is inherently dense, and the Imperial Physician can't cure it. I've gotten used to it."
"It's not the Evil Qi of Prince Su Mansion, you've been infected from outside, have someone close to you recently encountered any calamities?"