Ji Feiyu thought it was Yong Yaxuan coming back, so she let out a couple of hums, telling him not to be naughty. However, the person on top of her ignored her calls. He directly lifted the quilt and started groping her body.
"Um... Yong Yaxuan... What are you doing?" Ji Feiyu was aroused with a bit of desire. She grabbed his hand that was reaching for her lower body. He paused for a second but then kissed her more fiercely. Then he directly started tugging at Ji Feiyu's clothes. The slight coolness in the air made Ji Feiyu shiver. She held his face, about to ask again, but this touch startled her and she woke up with a jolt.
"Ah! You're not Yong Yaxuan! Who are you!" Ji Feiyu pushed him away forcefully and started shouting, "Someone! Come quickly!"
Unexpectedly, upon hearing Ji Feiyu's cries, the man covered her mouth with his hand and leaned over her again.
"Um... No!" Ji Feiyu's voice was muffled. She was extremely frightened and struggled to get up. As a result, most of her clothes were torn open.
"Someone... Come quickly... Um..." Ji Feiyu's voice was almost squeezed out through his fingers, but there was no sign of anyone coming in. Only his other hand kept roaming on her body. No matter how much Ji Feiyu pushed, grabbed, or kicked him, she couldn't break free from his restraint. This showed how big the physical strength gap was between men and women in close - combat!
She wanted to shout again, but he pressed her head hard against the jade pillow.
It hurt so much...
Ji Feiyu instantly felt dizzy and lost all her strength to resist. She went limp on the bed.
Then the noisy footsteps sounded from outside.
"What's going on?"
"Seems like the empress is in there..."
Why did she lose her strength? She didn't want to faint! She didn't want to!
Ji Feiyu tried hard to keep her eyes open, wanting to know who that man was. Then a faint light shone in, and gradually the light grew brighter...
"My dear consort!" Ji Feiyu suddenly heard a very familiar and anxious voice. She knew she was safe. Her heart warmed. She wanted to open her eyes and tell him that she had been bullied, but finally, unable to bear the pain from the blow, she fainted.
"Someone! Seize him for me!" Yong Yaxuan's furious voice came later!
...
When Ji Feiyu woke up the next day, she found that there was a bandage wrapped around her head. Yong Yaxuan was holding her hand and dozing off by the bedside.
She moved slightly and couldn't help but touch her bandaged head. Unexpectedly, she woke Yong Yaxuan up. He asked in a hurry, "Are you okay?" His eyes were blood - shot, clearly showing that he hadn't slept all night.
Looking at the worry and exhaustion on Yong Yaxuan's face, Ji Feiyu felt a pang of bitterness in her heart. She originally wanted to force a smile and tell him that she was okay, but when she opened her mouth, she said, "Your subject has brought shame to Your Majesty again."
"My dear consort..." Hearing this, Yong Yaxuan's eyes turned red with anxiety. "What nonsense are you talking about? As long as you're okay, that's more important than anything."
Looking at the guilt in his eyes, Ji Feiyu comforted him, "Your subject is okay. Really okay."
He leaned down and hugged her, then let out a heavy sigh. "It's good that you're okay."
Another wave of bitterness welled up in Ji Feiyu's heart. She couldn't help but whisper in his ear, "Your subject really doesn't know how he got in. Your subject didn't seduce him, and definitely didn't do anything to let Your Majesty down..."
"I know. Of course I know." Yong Yaxuan let go of Ji Feiyu, lovingly stroked her head, and gave her a smile.
Ji Feiyu let out a sigh of relief. She let Yong Yaxuan look at her tenderly. Finally, she lowered her eyes and gritted her teeth. "So, who on earth is that man?"
This time, Yong Yaxuan's tone changed. He was surprised. "You don't know?"
Ji Feiyu said, "When he came, Your subject was sleeping. There was no lamp lit in the room. Your subject only touched his face and judged from the bone structure that he wasn't you, but couldn't see clearly who he was at all."
Yong Yaxuan fell silent immediately.
"What's wrong?" Ji Feiyu saw his strange expression and couldn't help but ask.
After a while, he said in a muffled voice, "It's Lin Zhiran."
"What?" This answer exploded in Ji Feiyu's mind like a thunderbolt. She was stunned for a long time and then shook her head. "No, it can't be him."
"Really it's him. But it seems that he was drugged with a strong aphrodisiac and was a bit delirious." Yong Yaxuan's mood was a bit low.
"How could this be?" Hearing this, Ji Feiyu shivered all over. Hearing about the aphrodisiac, she immediately thought that someone in the harem must be trying to harm her. After all, if this matter was confirmed, she would surely be ruined!
The last time she was wrongly accused of causing Concubine Xin to have a miscarriage, it was because there was an insider in her palace who added something to the incense burner. So this time when she came back, she replaced all the palace servants in her palace. Unexpectedly, even after the replacement, someone could still divert everyone and let Lin Zhiran, who was drugged, come in.
During the time from when Lin Zhiran disappeared to when he appeared in Ji Feiyu's palace, where on earth had he been? What had happened to him? And who was trying to harm her in this way? These mysteries made Ji Feiyu's head ache. Just then, a young eunuch's voice suddenly came from outside the curtain -
"Your Majesty, the inspection result of the incense burner in the Empress's palace is out. Someone did add a kind of aphrodisiac - like drug to it."
"Got it. Go down." Yong Yaxuan said in a deep voice.
Ji Feiyu couldn't help but look at him. She saw that he was also looking at her and said in a low voice, "The imperial physician said that you were slightly drugged, but not seriously. He said that it was very likely because you've been dealing with poisons for a long time and your body has a certain resistance. I guessed that there might be something wrong with the incense burner again, so I sent someone to check it. Sure enough..."
Ji Feiyu immediately understood and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "It seems that that person really wants to kill Your subject. If Your subject hadn't been half - awake and struggled hard, and if others had seen Your subject entangled with Lin Zhiran in bed, even if Your Majesty believed Your subject, Your Majesty might not forgive Your subject, right?"
Yong Yaxuan couldn't help but hold her hand. "You really underestimate me. A queen who is willing to give up her freedom for the sake of the country and come back, a queen who understands my hard work and racks her brains to offer me strategies, how could she suddenly start having an affair with another official at such a critical moment?"
"Your Majesty..." Seeing that she was so trusted, Ji Feiyu's eyes welled up with tears.
Yong Yaxuan reached out and stroked her head again. "Don't worry. I'll always believe you from now on. But... Do you know something about Lin Zhiran's entering the palace? Someone said they saw you talking to him on the Star - Picking Terrace."
Huh? How did he even know this... But even so, was he still willing to believe her? Speaking of which, this really could easily lead to misunderstandings if one wasn't rational.
Just as Ji Feiyu was thinking about how to answer him, she heard Hua Hudie's voice coming from outside. "I brought Lin Zhiran in."