“Your Highness, did you find some previous medical records of Prince Chen?” Wen Xichi asked with a frown.
“Yes, I did! It is not difficult for me to reach those old records, though I shouldn’t do that. I read some when I was recuperating at the Imperial Institute of Medicine. They all said that Third Brother’s disease… was severe!”
Chu Liuyue was talking about the time when he was hospitalized in the Imperial Institute of Medicine after he and Chu Liuxin were both injured.
During that period, he also did something else apart from recuperating, such as secretly checking Chu Liuchen’s medical records. He was banned from looking into medical records. If the Emperor knew it, he would probably be scolded again. Chu Liuyue believed that if his father found out that he had read Chu Liuchen’s medical records, he would be seriously punished by his father.
“It was not so easy to get his medical records in the past, but you still found it, Your Highness. However, we didn’t find any records about his current condition. You think that Prince Chen has been cured, don’t you, Your Highness?” Wen Xichi asked him in reply.
Chu Liuyue indeed thought so! He did not hide from Wen Xichi. He nodded and sighed heavily, “Yuanqing, Third Brother seems to be healthy now! What do you think?”
Chu Liuchen did look good when he was performing the wedding ceremony. He also gave three good shots at the bridal sedan chair just now. Chu Liuyue felt Chu Liuchen seemed to be completely cured, except that his face and lips looked a little paler than others’.
If that was the case, Chu Liuchen would join in the list of his rivals… Thinking of this, Chu Liuyue frowned tightly.
It had been hard for him to deal with Chu Liuzhou. In addition, Prince Cheng was also one of his enemies. If Chu Liuchen was in a full recovery, he would be another opponent.
Moreover, Shao Wanru had married Chu Liuchen! “Such a beauty seems to be a creature born to my taste!” Chu Liuyue thought. She was both as pretty as a peony and as elegant as an orchid. Her every move was so beautiful that it gave a hit on his heart.
At first, he thought that Shao Wanru was still young, so he was not worried that she would get married early. Out of his expectation, among the Misses of Marquis Xing’s Mansion, she was the first one who married out. It felt like he saw a product in a shop and wanted it, but it was bought and became others’ belonging before he did, which made him feel very upset. If he had known this, he would have directly asked his father’s grant permission of a marriage to her without any scruple.
“Prince Chen does look good, but whether he is truly good or not depends on what will happen tonight!” Wen Xichi suppressed his annoyance and analyzed.
Chu Liuxin was silent at first, but then he immediately understood. He nodded and said, “You are right, Yuanqing. We will know after tonight!”
He stood still and turned around, focusing his eyes in the direction of the wedding hall. At this time, the ceremony should have been completed!
“So what if they are married? Can a patient do what he should do as a husband?”
Thinking of this, Chu Liuyue felt a little relieved. Even though Chu Liuchen looked healthy, Chu Liuyue always felt that he couldn’t be in a full recovery.
How could such a sick man, who was about to die, be cured so easily?
For more than a decade, countless imperial physicians and famous doctors around the country had failed to cure Chu Liuchen. How could he recover so quickly? He believed that Chu Liuchen was like an arrow at the end of its flight and was just pretending to be strong in front of others…
After the ceremony, Shao Wanru was helped into the bridal chamber. The guests were waiting to see the bride.
Chu Liuchen lifted the red veil. Shao Wanru looked up at him with her heart pounding and immediately lowered her head with a red face.
“What a beautiful bride!”
“How gorgeous!”
“She’s so pretty!” Cries of surprise came from all directions. Shao Wanru’s face became redder. She lowered her head and didn’t dare to look into Chu Liuchen’s beautiful eyes. However, her glance at Chu Liuchen’s handsome face just now made her easy and shy.
She couldn’t help biting her lips and lowering her head to look at the bright red carpet under her feet.
“If Princess Chen is hungry, she can eat the meal first!” Chu Liuchen smiled slightly and instructed the nanny beside him.
The nanny nodded and entertained the Madams and Misses in the bridal chamber with a smile. Chu Liuchen turned around and walked out. As the groom, he must leave now.
Everyone knew that he had always been in weak health, so no one dared to force him to drink at the wedding banquet. They were afraid that an accident might happen as it did at the wedding banquet held in Marquis Xing’s Mansion before. Everyone turned a blind eye to the fact that the groom toasted with tea instead of spirits, and they acted as if he were actually drinking alcohol.
Chu Liuyue and Chu Liuzhou did not drink either. Before they came to Prince Chen’s Mansion, both of them had been warned by the Emperor that they were not allowed to drink.
However, Prince Xin was drinking alone. Before Chu Liuchen came over, he was already drunk.
Chu Liuyue asked a servant to take him to rest.
After walking around and greeting most of the guests, Chu Liuchen left the banquet with the help of a eunuch. Everyone could see that Prince Chen didn’t look well and guessed that he had been exhausted.
Everyone had always been suspicious of Prince Chen’s health condition. But when they saw that he was tired, one hand keeping relaxing his eyebrows and his face turning pale, they unloaded the suspicion in their hearts and dared not to stop him from leaving. Prince Chen was indeed in weak health. He was not as strong as he looked!
He became exhausted in such a short time!
In the bridal room, Shao Wanru looked at Chu Liuchen in astonishment. He had just left for a second! In such a short time, what he could do was no more than to walk around the banquet casually.
The Madams and Misses who stayed in the bridal chamber for fun had to leave because of Chu Liuchen’s early return.
“Why… why do you come back so early?” Shao Wanru looked around and asked in astonishment.
“I’ve finished toasting and got drunk!” Chu Liuchen said lazily. Then he sat down beside Shao Wanru and turned to look at Shao Wanru leisurely.
“…”
Shao Wanru was speechless. How dare he say that he got drunk without any reeks of alcohol?
“Why don’t you go to wash up first? I’m drunk. I need to lie down for a while,” Chu Liuchen waved his hand, fell on the bed, and said lazily.
Shao Wanru had been wanting to take a bath for a long time because she felt a little uncomfortable. She had intended to wait until those Madams and Misses left. But she didn’t expect that Chu Liuchen would come back so soon. Hearing his advice, she stood up at once.
Yujie and Qu Le came to help her remove the heavy headwear on her head and then helped her go to the bathroom next to the bridal room.
The bathroom was very spacious, filled with warm steams and a faint fragrance, which was very pleasing. Shao Wanru looked at the spacious bathroom in astonishment.
The tub was made of warm jade! How luxurious! There was also a soft couch placed beside the pool. They were separated by half a screen.
That made her inexplicably nervous.
“Miss!” Yujie called her in a low voice after she found her master was a little strange.
Shao Wanru took a deep breath and slowly calmed down. With the help of the two servant girls, she took off her clothes with a slight blush on her face. She slipped into the pool by the jade platform on the side and waved her hand to ask the two servant girls to go out. She got up too early this morning and her body was still stiff. Being soaked in warm water, now she was completely relaxed.
“Miss, I am worried that you are alone,” Yujie stopped at the door and said.
“I’m fine!” Shao Wanru waved her hand and motioned for Yujie to go out. She wanted to be alone for a while.
Because of her persistence, Yujie could only leave. “Miss, I am waiting for you at the door. You can call me if you need anything!”
Shao Wanru nodded. After the footsteps of the two servant girls were gone, the bathroom instantly became quiet.
She slowly closed her eyes, with her back leaning against the side of the bath. Everything that had just happened was like a dream because it made her feel unrealistic.
Was the last life just a dream of her in this life? Or was this life the continuation of her last life? It was difficult to tell! Suddenly, that exquisite headwear Hua Sheng flashed in her mind. She took a deep breath…
That Hua Sheng was Chu Liuchen’s belonging. So, was it the reason why she and Chu Liuchen met each other in her last life?
Shao Wanru could remember everyone’s stories in her last life, except for Chu Liuchen’s!
She reached out to relax her frowning eyebrows. More and more speculations came into being in her head. Now she was sure that she must know Chu Liuchen in her last life and even have a close relationship with him. But why was there only a simple figure of Chu Liuchen in her memory? Why was there not the scene of her getting along with him?
It seemed that everything related to Chu Liuchen was hidden from her memory.
But why? Why was everything related to Chu Liuchen erased from her memory, but those about any other people were stricken into her heart?
It was so confusing that it made her uneasy. Was that pair of desperate eyes with hostility Chu Liuchen’s? Why did he look like that?
Suddenly she felt a heavy pain in her heart, which seemed to be caused by something happening in the past in her memory. But she couldn’t remember it no matter how hard she tried. She frowned more. “Why?”
Why could she only learn everything about Chu Liuchen in her last life by imagination and speculation, just as she enjoyed flowers in the fog? She was reborn!
What on earth had happened in her last life? Or what was the reason that caused her to forget Chu Liuchen’s stories?
They should be very important… very important…
The fragments of her memories of the two lives appeared in her head one after another, but whether they were important or not, none of them was about Chu Liuchen. Moreover, many of them were linked to each other, but she failed to connect them into a full memory as if some important pieces were stolen.
Why did she forget them? She or Chu Liuchen, who was the cause?
That headwear Hua Sheng opened another part of Shao Wanru’s memories. But such part of memories was still vague. She almost touched it, but why couldn’t she recall it?
She reached out to relax her eyebrows again, and suddenly she heard an elegant voice. “What’s wrong? Is anything bothering you?”
