"So, my beloved concubine has been wronged again."
Li Yuyu raised her head, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at Yan Xiu and nodded heavily, "Hmm, the Emperor wants to punish her."
"How should she be punished?"
"Slap on the mouth?" Li Yuyu muttered with her head tilted, "Not really good, the Emperor’s beauties would be marred, better to use the paddle."
Li Yuyu showed an expression as if she was being considerate for the others, smiling mischievously, "Just twenty paddles, let the nannies do it, their strength surely isn’t as great as men’s, Sun Cairen won’t be beaten to death."
Feng Yin was severely beaten with twenty paddles, if not for the timely arrival of the Imperial Physician, her life might have been lost.
Whenever Li Yuyu recalled Feng Yin’s weak and dying appearance, hate surged in her chest. How could her people be bullied by outsiders?
Yan Xiu suddenly raised his hand to block Li Yuyu’s eyes.
He didn’t want to see that particular look in Yu’er’s eyes again, it would make him unable to resist dragging out and chopping the person who displeased her.
"Are you all deaf?" Yan Xiu said coldly.
The nannies kneeling on the ground were jolted back to reality, and this time they truly exerted full force as they dragged Sun Cairen out, pressed her onto the long bench in the courtyard.
Yin Huang foolishly remained kneeling on the ground, not daring to move since the Emperor hadn’t told her to rise.
"My beloved, has your anger subsided?" Yan Xiu suddenly lowered his head, his thin lips brushing Li Yuyu’s ear, speaking warmly.
Li Yuyu felt a surge of electricity spread from her ear quickly across her entire body, her heartbeat becoming irregular.
Indeed, the heart of this body had a minor ailment.
Li Yuyu stepped back to avoid Yan Xiu’s touch, intending to continue the act but found herself unable to maintain it, coquettishly glaring at Yan Xiu, feigning a shy gesture of covering her face to escape, and quickly ran out of the Cold Palace.
Hua Yin barely kept pace with Li Yuyu, curtseyed towards Yan Xiu, then lifted her skirt to chase after.
Yan Xiu raised an eyebrow, another escape?
Was she genuinely shy or just pretending?
"Notify the Imperial Hospital," Yan Xiu left this remark and departed the Cold Palace with hands behind his back.
Yu’er had said she must not be beaten to death.
Shen Quan understood and after instructing the nanny steward, left the Cold Palace.
The doors of Jingxin Palace were shut once more, no one knew that in the courtyard of Jingxin Palace, the mouth of Sun Cairen had been blocked as she was beaten until her skin was torn and she fainted unconscious.
Li Yuyu ran a good distance, glanced back a few times, and only relaxed when she was sure Yan Xiu hadn’t followed her.
"This palace is overheating." Li Yuyu fanned herself with her hand, sitting on the railing on either side of the long corridor for a rest.
Hua Yin finally caught up, leaning against a red pillar panting, "Lady, why did you run so fast?"
"This palace is affected by pregnancy, naturally I must run," Li Yuyu answered lazily.
Hua Yin looked up in shock: Affected by pregnancy?
"Crash—"
At the other end of the corridor, the sound of porcelain falling and shattering could be heard.
Li Yuyu and Hua Yin simultaneously looked in that direction and saw Yan Zixuan in a blue robe with a black belt, adorned with a white jade waist tag standing there.
"The servant greets Prince Xuan, wishing him well."
Hua Yin knelt in courtesy.
Li Yuyu:!
Why did she run into Yan Zixuan again?
"Yu’er, what did you just say?"
Yan Zixuan ignored Hua Yin’s greeting, stepped quickly to Li Yuyu’s side, and asked seriously.
Li Yuyu replied speechlessly, "Prince Xuan, do you have nothing to do all day? Why do you keep visiting the harem at every turn? Anyone unaware would think Prince Xuan hasn’t established an estate outside the palace!"
"Yu’er, don’t joke with me, what did you just say was affected... by what?"