GBP Chapter 153 No power to cover up
Chapter 153 No power to cover up
"Don't understand?" Zhu Yan sneered, grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him, "What benefit did Concubine Li give you to let you play this trick under my nose? Huh?"
Xiaolan was frightened by the coldness in his eyes. Zhu Yan's eyes seemed to be able to see through everything, leaving her nowhere to hide. She knew that all her disguises were like thin paper in front of Zhu Yan, with no power to cover up.
"Your Highness, please spare me! Your Highness, please spare me!" Xiaolan kowtowed desperately, her forehead hitting the cold floor with a "dong dong" sound, "I am also forced to do this! Concubine Li is threatening the lives of my family members. If I don't obey, my family will be destroyed!"
Zhu Yan let go of his hand and looked at Xiaolan, who was lying on the ground, with disgust. In the harem, the most vicious and vicious women were indeed the ones with the most vicious hearts. He thought that he could easily avoid these conspiracies and tricks by relying on the memories of his previous life after his rebirth, but he didn't expect that he would still fall into the trap.
"Get away! Don't let me see you again!" Zhu Yan waved his hands tiredly. He didn't have the heart to pay attention to this woman now. He just wanted to find out who had done something under his nose.
Xiaolan was as if pardoned, and she fled from the bedroom crawling away.
Zhu Yan closed his eyes and replayed the scene of the assassination in his mind. He clearly remembered that he had avoided the assassin's attack, but in the end he was still cut by the sharp blade. There must be something fishy about this.
"Could it be..." Zhu Yan suddenly opened his eyes, and a terrible thought came to his mind, "My Vajra Indestructible Body has lost its effect?"
In order to confirm his guess, Zhu Yan endured the pain, picked up a dagger on the table, and slashed his arm fiercely.
"Swish—" The sharp dagger cut his skin and blood gushed out instantly.
"How could this happen..." Zhu Yan looked at his bleeding arm in disbelief, his face turning pale. If he lost his indestructible body, what would he have to fight against the Crown Prince and Concubine Li?
An unprecedented sense of fear swept over him, and Zhu Yan's breathing became rapid. He tried hard to calm his mind, but found that the more he struggled, the deeper he fell into the abyss of despair...
Zhu Yan slumped down on the bed, his mind in a mess. His indestructible body was his greatest support, and his trump card against the Crown Prince and Concubine Li. Now that all his trump cards were gone, he was like a tiger with its teeth pulled out, with only brute force but nowhere to display it.
Fear, despair, anger...all kinds of negative emotions surged into his heart like a tide, almost swallowing him up. He beat his chest hard, roaring in unwillingness.
"Your Highness! What's wrong with you?!" There were hurried footsteps outside the door, followed by a crisp voice.
Zhu Yan looked up and saw a girl in a yellow dress standing at the door, her face full of anxiety. The girl's name was Liu Ruyan, and she was his personal maid. She had been with him since she was a child, and the two of them were as close as siblings.
"I'm fine." Zhu Yan took a deep breath, trying to suppress the surging emotions in his heart, and forced a smile, "It's just a nightmare."
Liu Ruyan obviously didn't believe his words. She quickly walked to the bedside and looked at him worriedly: "Your Highness, are you feeling unwell? Why do you look so bad?"
"I'm really fine." Zhu Yan didn't want to make her worry, so he changed the subject, "Why are you here?"
"I heard that Your Highness was assassinated, and I was very worried, so I came to see Your Highness." Liu Ruyan said, her eyes slightly red, "Fortunately, Your Highness is blessed by heaven, and only suffered minor injuries."
"Just a minor injury?" Zhu Yan pointed to his arm with a wry smile, "You call this a minor injury?"
Liu Ruyan then noticed the wound on his arm and exclaimed, "Your Highness, why is your wound still bleeding?!"
She hurriedly took out a handkerchief from her bosom and wanted to bandage him, but was grabbed by Zhu Yan.
"Don't bother, it's useless." Zhu Yan smiled weakly, "My indestructible body... has disappeared."
"What?!" Liu Ruyan's eyes widened, her face full of disbelief, "How...how is this possible?!"
Zhu Yan didn't say anything, but silently handed the dagger to her and motioned for her to look at it herself.
Liu Ruyan took the dagger with shaking hands. His blood was still on the sharp blade. She felt a black screen in front of her eyes and almost fainted.
The Vajra Indestructible Body is a secret skill of the royal family. Emperors of all dynasties have relied on this skill to resist countless assassinations. Now, this skill has become ineffective on Zhu Yan. This is simply unheard of!
"Your Highness, don't worry, I will go find the imperial physician right away. He will definitely find a way!" Liu Ruyan suppressed the fear in her heart, stood up and was about to run out.
"It's useless." Zhu Yan grabbed her and pulled her to his side, letting her sit on the edge of the bed. He looked into Liu Ruyan's eyes and said word by word, "My indestructible body was destroyed by a strange poison. There is only one person in the world who can cure this poison..."
Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, then reacted and exclaimed, "Your Highness, are you saying... the Imperial Master?!"
Zhu Yan nodded, with a complicated look in his eyes. The Imperial Master was the most extraordinary person in the dynasty, proficient in medicine, divination, and astrology, and he was omniscient and omnipotent. If he wanted to remove the poison from his body, perhaps only the Imperial Master could do it.
However, the Imperial Master had a strange personality and his whereabouts were erratic, so finding him was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
more importantly……
Zhu Yan's gaze fell on Liu Ruyan's delicate face, and a barely perceptible struggle flashed in his eyes.
He recalled that in his previous life, the Imperial Master had once told him that he was doomed to romance and would meet a confidante in this life, but this relationship would bring him fatal disaster.
And this confidante is none other than Liu Ruyan, the girl in front of him.
Zhu Yan stared at Liu Ruyan steadily, his eyes as deep as an unfathomable cold pond. The intertwined scenes of his past and present lives rolled around in his mind, and the four words "beauty is a disaster" predicted by the national teacher were like a thunderclap, exploding in his ears.
"Your Highness?" Liu Ruyan felt uneasy when he looked at her and called out timidly.
"Ruyan," Zhu Yan spoke slowly, his tone gentle but with a hint of estrangement that was barely noticeable, "Do you know that besides the Imperial Master, there might be someone else who can cure the poison in my body?"
Liu Ruyan was stunned for a moment, then shook her head: "I don't know, Your Highness, please tell me clearly."
Zhu Yan did not answer directly. Instead, he got off the bed, walked to the window, stood with his hands behind his back, looked at the inky night sky outside the window, and said in a low voice: "Do you still remember the Taoist priest I brought back from Nanshan three years ago?"
Liu Ruyan thought about it and suddenly realized: "Your Highness, are you talking about the Taoist priest who calls himself 'Wu Chen Zi'? Didn't he say he wanted to travel around the world? How come, could it be that he..."
"That's right," Zhu Yan turned around, with a meaningful smile on his face, "He once said that I was born with a noble fate, but there is a disaster that can only be resolved with a miraculous medicine. And this medicine is in..."
He paused deliberately, staring at Liu Ruyan with burning eyes, observing her reaction.
Liu Ruyan felt uneasy when he looked at her, but she still tried to remain calm and asked, "Where is it?"
"It's right on you." Zhu Yan spoke word by word, his tone carrying a hint of teasing, a hint of inquiry, and a hint of desire that he himself didn't even notice?
Liu Ruyan was suddenly struck by lightning. Her face turned pale in an instant and she stepped back repeatedly until her back was against the cold wall with nowhere to retreat.
"Your Highness, what are you saying? I... I don't understand..." She spoke incoherently, her eyes were wandering, and she didn't dare to look Zhu Yan in the eye.
Zhu Yan approached step by step, trapping her in a corner, looking down at her panicked appearance, a playful smile flashed in his eyes.
"Ruyan, you have followed me for so many years, don't you understand what I mean?" His voice was low and hoarse, with a fatal temptation, "You should know best what I want..."
Liu Ruyan felt her breath choke, her heart beat like a drum, and all the blood in her body seemed to rush to her face, burning her cheeks.
She wanted to escape, but she couldn't move. She could only watch Zhu Yan's face getting closer and closer, his warm breath spraying in her ears, making her tremble all over.
"Your Highness... You can't do this... I am just a servant..."
"Servant?" Zhu Yan chuckled, his tone carrying a hint of sarcasm, "Ruyan, you underestimate yourself too much. In my heart, you have never been a servant, you are..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a rapid knock on the door.
"Your Highness, something terrible has happened! The Imperial Master... The Imperial Master..."
The door was flung open, and a eunuch stumbled in, fell at Zhu Yan's feet, and said in horror: "The Imperial Master... The Imperial Master... is dead!"
Liu Ruyan screamed, covered her mouth, and looked at the eunuch kneeling on the ground in disbelief.
Zhu Yan's eyelids twitched, and his heart was filled with shock.
The national teacher is dead?
At this time in his previous life, the National Master was clearly still alive and well, until he was framed and given a cup of poisoned wine to die suddenly. He announced to the outside world that he died of excessive grief and depression.
But now, he is not dead yet, but the national teacher has passed away first?
Is this the so-called butterfly effect?
Did his rebirth change the course of some things after all?
Zhu Yan took a deep breath, suppressed the turmoil in his heart, and asked calmly, "What's going on? Tell me slowly."
The eunuch said tremblingly, "Your Highness, I don't know. The Imperial Master was fine just now, reviewing memorials for the Emperor in the Imperial Study, but... but for some reason, he suddenly foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground. The doctors... the doctors were helpless..."
Zhu Yan sneered in his heart. Of course the imperial physician was helpless, because the imperial teacher did not die of illness, but was assassinated by someone!