Chapter 122: Friend in Need
Xing slept for the entire day and only woke up the next day. AoTian and Rijun were happy she woke up but she still couldn’t keep anything in her stomach and was blankly staring making them depressed. She wasn’t even responding to anyone.
Even the Imperial Physician was brought and his medicines didn’t work either. Xing was reading the letters Shengli sent again and again, "There won’t be a letter arriving tomorrow", she mumbled. No one knew how to get her out of her trance or help her. Their ways to find Shengli failed too.
In the palace,
Rijun was in the Imperial Study helping the Emperor and the Emperor noted that he was completely out of it.
"Is Mingxia that sick?", the Emperor asked Rijun who was staring at the paper intently without even knowing his sleeves were dipped in the inkstone making the ink spread in his light blue robes.
"Huh?" Rijun snapped out of his daze only when the Emperor banged on his table and Rijun clicked his tongue when he saw his robes had gotten ruined.
"She is staring at the wall and throw ups everything she ears", he answered, "Even father doesn’t know what to do. I just hope that your brother is safe. Or else...", he let out a deep sigh.
Just then Consort Shu’s arrival was announced and she entered with a tray,
"Your Majesty", she said in a flat tone, " I brought you Lotus seed soup, I made myself to nourish your body. You work too hard and forget to take care of your health", she placed the tray in front of the Emperor.
"Enough of it! We both know you didn’t step foot in the kitchen. Just take it back", he waved his hands.
"You want me to cook for you?", she asked playfully and the Emperor smiled and shook his head, "Why are you here? "
"I wanted to meet Huang Rijun", she smiled mysticaly at Rijun and walked towards him swaying her hips and a cold shiver ran through Rijun’s spine, ’What the... Why is the Emperor’s woman looking at me like that in front of the Emperor? Does she want me dead? ’