Chapter 404 - 12.12
"Master Bai, I will call the palace physician right now! You’ve been in terrible condition nowadays. You need real treatment from the physician!" Meilan was utterly panicked as her master’s health kept on deteriorating every day.
At first, her master’s appetite continued diminishing to the point that he barely ate for the whole day. Soon after, her Master’s body was too weak that he couldn’t even walk with his cane unless Meilan helped him.
Meilan thought the problem was just because Master Bai refused to eat. But when Meilan tried to feed her master, Bai Yunyu would puke everything out. As if his body had been given up to do anything except accepting a slow death.
Meilan saw it with her own eyes, how Master Bai’s body became too weak to get up from the bed. It was even too weak to munch on food.
Bai Yunyu was unresponsive most of the time until he heard that Meilan wanted to call the palace physician. Bai Yunyu immediately gathered all his strength and grabbed Meilan’s wrist. With his weak yet hoarse voice, he pleaded, "Meilan... don’t... call the palace physician. His Majesty... will get notified if you call the physician..."
"Isn’t that better, Master Bai? Let His Majesty, Emperor Xianliang to understand your current condition! What is the use of his title if he can’t even help you! He is the one who tortures you!" Meilan finally burst out in tears as she was frustrated with her Master’s condition.
Two weeks after eating nothing but tofu and boiled fish, Bai Yunyu’s condition was too disheartening to see. Yet, the ignorant husband of his, Emperor Xianliang, had never visited him, not even once!
Yet, he kept telling the head eunuch to ration Bai Yunyu’s food every day. He extended the punishment because when he sent a minister to check on Bai Yunyu, the minister said that Empress Xiuying would rather die than meeting with the Emperor once more. He would never apologize for his mistake, as he said that he didn’t do it.
This angered the Emperor even more. He got even crueller with his punishment by only letting Bai Yunyu eat once a day.
"Don’t... I don’t want him to see me like this..." Bai Yunyu tried to prevent Meilan to tell his husband the truth of his condition. Huang Shu always thought that Bai Yunyu was a martial artist with amazing capability, so he thought his punishment wouldn’t matter much for Bai Yunyu.
He didn’t know that it was like a slow death for his wife.