After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 231
~End of chapter 230
When the intendant Lin heard the crown prince’s cough, he was overjoyed. He rushed to use the key to unlock the door lock and then entered the room along with the imperial doctor.
Zhao Zhi was already sitting up in the bed, his back lazily leaning against the pillows, his long hair scattered on his back, with a beautiful face and red lips. The look of being gravely injured and not totally recovered made him look like a shattered beauty.
“Your Highness ……”
The intendant Lin only just started to speak, but he was interrupted by Zhao Zhi’s cold voice. There was no emotion in the man’s eyes, as he coldly said, “Zhu Zhu is hungry.”
Chapter 231
(82.2)
“Zhu Zhu is hungry.”
The intendant Lin looked at her in a daze and then nodded foolishly, “I’ll immediately go and have someone prepare the evening meal.”
Zhao Zhi put his fist against his lips, suppressed his voice and coughed a few times, before dismissing the imperial doctor.
Doctor Liu didn’t dare to say anything, since the person woke up, there was no major problem anymore, with a month or two of medicine, and some rest for a period of time, he would be able to make a full recovery. After the intendant Lin and doctor Liu withdrew from the room, Ming Zhu and Zhao Zhi were the only two people left in the room.
The sky was getting dark, and the light in the room without lit lanterns was dim and unclear.
Ming Zhu didn’t know how much Zhao Zhi had heard of what she had said, but she didn’t feel uneasy at all at the moment. She found a match and lit two lanterns.
The fire sprang up, and the light of the lit candlesticks illuminated the two people’ faces.
Zhao Zhi looked at her round and bright eyes and beckoned to her, “Zhu Zhu, come over here for a moment.”
Ming Zhu was standing far away from the bed, looking weak and feeble, avoiding him on the side, unwilling to move.
She happened to be standing under the candlelight, so half of her face turned into a glistening translucent pink, the color of her complexion was really good, much better compared to when she was previously ill and unconscious.
The mind disease she had been suffering for a long time from seemed as if it had vanished like smoke along with that dagger pierced through his heart.
It was good if her illness was fine now.
Zhao Zhi didn’t care at all if he was stabbed once or ten times.
Zhao Zhi bent down and coughed again, he swallowed the blood in his throat as if nothing had happened. He wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth with his snow-white handkerchief, his eyebrows slowly wrinkled together, and a pained expression suddenly appeared between the middle of his eyebrows.
The slightest movement was tearing open the wound on his chest, and was accompanied by a heart-wrenching wave of pain.
At that moment, servants from the kitchen brought freshly prepared food.
There were noodles, vegetables and soup, completely filling the large table.
Ming Zhu did not say a word, sat down and buried her head down as she ate a bowl of vegetarian noodles. She felt that it was tasteless, so she sprinkled some chili powder into the noodle soup. She had a small appetite and was overly hungry, so after eating half a bowl, she couldn’t eat any more and put down the chopsticks in her hand, without touching them again.
Zhao Zhi put on his coat, got out of bed and slowly sat across from her. His complexion looked sickly and pale, and his thin body looked a little weak.
He picked up the noodles in front of him and ate two bites before he was covered in sweat from the spiciness of the noddles. He couldn’t suppress his cough for a moment.
People who were injured should avoid eating spicy.
To the public, it was said that Zhao Zhi had fallen sick, the fact that he had been stabbed had been hidden very well, not the slightest wind of it had leaked outside.
Only the people in the crown prince’s residence knew a little of the inside story, but no one dared to reveal even half a word to the outside.
While Zhao Zhi was recovering inside the residence, Ming Zhu never asked about his injuries.
She somehow became the crown princess out of nowhere, but she was not happy at all about it in her heart.
People who didn’t think much of her before were now very polite and respectful to her.
Ming Zhu didn’t want the status of the crown princess and went to the study to mention this to Zhao Zhi. Lowering her head, she said without any care, “I haven’t made any progress in my studies, and I’m not smart enough to hold up the status of crown princess.”
Zhao Zhi’s face didn’t look too good when he heard this, he hummed and then said that it didn’t matter.
Ming Zhu raised her face and found all sorts of extraordinary excuses.
Zhao Zhi quietly listened, waiting for her to finish, and then warmly said four words, “It does not matter.”
Ming Zhu stopped talking, knowing that no matter what she said he wouldn’t listen.
Zhao Zhi couldn’t resist taking her onto his lap, his palms pinched her soft waist, and his thin lips lightly rubbed across her delicate cheeks. His breath was cold, and his words soft, “In a few days, take the child to the palace to meet my mother, she still doesn’t know that you’re alive.”
There was some resistance in Ming Zhu’s heart, being very close to him, she could smell the cold pine fragrance on the man’s body, like an autumn white pear mixed in wood crumbs, it was not an unpleasant scent, but it added some detachment.
Ming Zhu raised her eyes and looked at him seriously as she asked, “Aren’t you afraid that I will stab you again?”
“The dagger is on the bookshelf.” After a slight pause, Zhao Zhi added, “I won’t stop you.”
“If I stab you to death, they’ll have me accompany you in the grave.”
Zhao Zhi smiled lightly, “So I can’t die.”
Even if he had to crawl out of hell.
Ming Zhu intentionally placed her hands against his wounded chest. The man, against all expectations, could endure the pain very well. His expression remained unchanged.
Ming Zhu had the illusion that she was a scoundrel.
Translator : Laura
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