TL: Vaishu
ED: Anna
PR: Dark
QC: Vaishu
Qu Feiqing saw the traces she left on Su Xin’s neck last night. She reached out to touch them, but found that Su Xin’s body was cold and sticky, and she could smell a faint aroma of wine when she got close.
It was not difficult for Qu Feiqing to imagine what was going on. She tucked Su Xin’s quilt and waited for the imperial doctor to come.
Shu Quan hurriedly invited the imperial physician, and after the imperial physician saluted Qu Feiqing, he performed a ceremony where he put a silk cloth over her wrist to diagnose the pulse and then withdrew the cloth.
“Your Majesty, this girl has caught a cold, and in addition to the weather she is not used to, it seems to have gotten worse. It will be fine when she takes the prescribed medicine on time.”
The imperial doctor wrote down the prescription and talked about the things that should be avoided and paid attention to, before leaving with the medicine box.
“Go make the decoction.”
Shu Quan nodded, took the prescription and rushed to the imperial apothecary, and then ran back to make the decoction.
Qu Feiqing opened Su Xin’s quilt, picked Su Xin up bridal style, and went to the small bath chamber of the palace.
Su Xin groaned and shrank in Qu Feiqing’s arms.
Qu Feiqing untied Su Xin’s clothes lightly and wiped Su Xin’s body with a towel soaked in water.
Because Su Xin was asleep, it wasn’t easy to get her into the water.
Qu Feiqing didn’t expect that her mouth would be so ruthless. The girl’s white skin had traces of dark purple or red, which made one reminisce.
After Qu Feiqing wiped Su Xin’s body, she realised that she had forgotten to get a change of clothes for Su Xin. In desperation, she could only hold the bare Su Xin in her arms.
She walked quickly, fearing that Su Xin would be seriously ill if she was exposed to the cold for too long.
After tucking Su Xin into the quilt, she went to the closet to look for Su Xin’s usual clothes.
After finding two pieces of obscene clothes and trousers, Qu Feiqing put them on Su Xin.
First the undergarment, Qu Feiqing pressed her lips and tied the string to form a knot on the back, to protect the two trembling snow white balls.
After putting on Su Xin’s clothes and pants, Qu Feiqing covered her with a quilt, and sat on the edge of the bed looking at Su Xin’s burning face.
Shu Quan came with the medicine, which was too hot.
“Put the medicine here, you can leave first.”
Qu Feiqing took the bowl, and Shu Quan looked up at her, then walked out.
Strange… Empress Qu hasn’t come to see the Miss for ten consecutive days, but now the Empress is so caring for the Miss because of her illness.
Qu Feiqing stirred with a spoon to cool the medicine.
She then put the bowl down and went to wake Su Xin up.
Su Xin opened her eyes with difficulty and saw a bowl of medicine in front of her.
Su Xin shook her head, took the concoction, and drank half of it in one breath, frowning at the bitter taste.
Su Xin continued to drink the rest, stuffed the bowl into Qu Feiqing’s hand, wiped the corner of her mouth, and then continued to lie down.
Qu Feiqing stuffed Su Xin’s mouth with a candied fruit, and Su Xin’s frowning brows slowly eased.
After that, Qu Feiqing left, since she had her own affairs to deal with.
Su Xin woke up in the evening. Shu Quan, who had been guarding her bed, quickly helped her get up.
“Miss, you are awake! Are you hungry?”
“A little hungry…”
“Miss, wait. I’ll bring you porridge.”
Su Xin looked down at her clean clothes and rubbed her eyebrows tiredly.
Fourteen, I regret it.
[What do you regret? Did it happen?]
No, I didn’t ask her if I was beautiful at the good time yesterday!
Su Xin wailed in her heart, ‘Mission ah Mission!’
Last night, both of them were confused and in disorder. If she had asked if she was beautiful, Qu Feiqing would definitely answer in the affirmative.
[That’s right. I forgot to remind you.]
Fourteen also felt a little upset. It hadn’t paid attention to the mosaic process and it indeed had missed an opportunity.
After Su Xin finished eating the white porridge, she planned to put on her clothes and sit on a chair. She slept for too long, and she now became lazy and weak.
After drinking the medicine at night, Su Xin fell asleep again until dawn the next day.
The next day, the weather was fine and the sun was shining. She was ready to get dressed and go for a walk in the courtyard, bask in the sun, and get rid of her illness.
Shu Quan followed her step by step, for fear that something would happen to her.
Su Xin was bored, so she started to play a game of tic tac toe with Shu Quan.
There was a piece of paper with 9 squares on it, one person draws circles and another does cross. Whoever can get 3 in a row wins.
In the beginning, Shu Quan didn’t know how to play it, so Su Xin kept winning. Fortunately, the game was very simple, and Shu Quan learned it right away. The two sides were in a tie. Later Su Xin continued to win.
“Shu Quan, it’s obvious that you are deliberately letting me win.”
Su Xin put the pen on the table and looked at Shu Quan.
“No, Miss is too smart and I’m too stupid.”
Shu Quan pursed her lips and smiled shyly.
“What are you both playing?”
A child’s voice came from the door, Su Xin and Shu Quan stood up and bowed to the eight or nine year old child.
“Greetings, Your Highness.”
This child was the son of Qu Feiqing’s brother. She imprisoned her brother, and then took his child and raised him personally. Although it was not officially stated, everyone assumed that the child was the prince of the country.
“You can stand, are you the woman my aunt brought back?”
Qu Xing Chen raised his chin. His aunt never liked to be close to others, so it was really rare to bring someone to the palace. He had been completing the tasks assigned to him by his aunt a few days ago, so he couldn’t come and have a look at what this person was like, earlier.
Su Xin nodded and tidied up the table next to her.
“You still haven’t told me what you were playing.”
“It’s a type of game….”
Su Xin told his Royal Highness the rules of the game, and Qu Xing Chen was eager to try.
Su Xin blasted Qu Xing Chen for several rounds, and Qu Xing Chen gradually mastered the rules, and there was a scene where neither of them let the other win.
The game was okay to play for a while, but after a long time, it got boring.
When Qu Xing Chen blocked Su Xin’s road with a smile, he suddenly flinched, and quickly put down the pen in his hand and got up from the chair, looking at the direction of the courtyard door.
The next moment Qu Feiqing walked in from the courtyard gate, and Qu Xing Chen bowed a stiff salute.
“Come join us Royal Aunt.”
Su Xin and Shu Quan also saluted. Su Xin looked at Qu Xing Chen’s movements. This child was so sensitive to even Qu Feiqing’s breath.
“Chen’er, it’s getting late, you go back first.”
It was clearly still early and the sun was shining brightly.
“Yes aunt.”
Qu Xing Chen quickly walked out without question, not even turning his head to look at Su Xin.
“He seems to be scared of you.”
“Hmm.”
Qu Feiqing responded lightly, she was probably the shadow of her nephew’s heart, an existence of extraordinary terror.
Qu Feiqing waved for the servants guarding in the courtyard to go back. Only the two of them remained.
“Your sickness has healed?”
“Almost all better, thank you for your concern, Your Majesty.”
“After all, it’s my responsibility if you are sick.”
That night was so ridiculous, Qu Feiqing was half drunk and half awake and did not control her strength.
Qu Feiqing couldn’t forget that night: The moon was bright and Su Xin’s long silky hair spread across her back. Her half-dangling eyes and red cheeks.
“Then…do you think I am beautiful?”
No matter how I ask, it’s fine, even if I’m treated as a narcissist, it doesn’t matter. If Qu Feiqing admits this, then I can pat my butt and leave.
Qu Feiqing smiled, why is this woman so persistent in front of such a problem?
Qu Feiqing wanted to tease her, so she didn’t speak.
Fourteen, she is playing with me. Will she die if she admits I’m beautiful?
[Uhh…This…]
She messes with people like that. Even when we were rolling around before, she didn’t say anything sweet to me, even under pleasure!
[Host let me remind you that you made the first move and did the deed too. While tossing around, you also forgot to ask her.]
You’re actually defending her! You don’t love me anymore!
[Host you are so dramatic. Fine I won’t do it again.]
…Fourteen was speechless.
The following days became unremarkable, Su Xin could only stay in this palace, and couldn’t walk around. She was waiting for the second chance to pick up the lead, and she would ask questions after getting together.
Qu Feiqing was in a bad mood today, and a group of people in the court called her to accept the male concubine and open the branches and leaves. She wanted to smash them in the face with something on the spot.
If it’s those men who are going to get pregnant, she might have thought about it, but that’s impossible. Want her to be touched by a man and then get pregnant and have children? Don’t even think about it.
Putting aside her hatred of men touching her, she would be physically weak when she is pregnant, and it would be even more dangerous for the next few months. It would be so easy to kill her. She does not need children, nor does she need to do these things.
She had only wanted to win the throne and become an Empress to teach the people, who insulted and oppressed her mother and her, a lesson. It was also to achieve her own ambitions of dominating the Kingdom.
However as a Ruler it was expected of them to produce an heir, as the people wanted someone only with the surname Qu to sit on the throne. It was for this reason that she brought her brother’s son, Qu Xing Chen and raised him.
Those who are loyal to her, hope that her heirs can inherit the country, and those who want to harm her also hope that she can conceive and have children so that she is weaker.
Still, these people have no shame, they would promote their own sons one after the other, as if it was a competition on who sells first. Qu Feiqing sneered. Do they think that she is so naive? Their demeanors were so troublesome.
Concubines are considered romantic and sound good. But for Qu Feiqing, it was like taking a prostitute and dressing it up in a noble status to hide the filth. Those male concubines don’t give her money, but instead she has to pay to support them, which she found extremely disgusting.
After hundreds of years of conceptual suppression of women, Qu Feiqing alone was unable to change this, even if she was an Empress. She was an exception in several dynasties and the most dazzling existence among the Four Kingdoms.
Qu Feiqing retired in a bad mood, she changed her clothes and looked at the memorials and felt even more unhappy. She left the Imperial Study Room and planned to take a walk to change her mood.
When Qu Feiqing walked to the Royal Garden, she heard a burst of laughter.
In the pavilion among the flowers, two people were sitting close together, one of them covered her face with silk, smiling happily and she had to snuggle up to the other person.
Su Xin grinned, wondering how fake the Princess’ smile beside her was.
“Younger sister is in good spirits, and I heard her laughter from outside the Imperial Garden.”
When Qu Fei Yun heard Qu Feiqing’s voice, it was like a mouse meeting a cat, and she immediately sat upright and bowed to Qu Feiqing.
“Greetings Royal sister.”
Author’s note:
Qu Fei Yun: Tell me a joke.
Su Xin: Oh, when I was walking in the street one day…
Qu Fei Yun: Hahahahahahahaha
Su Xin: [? ? ? ] Is she sick?
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