After a night of pleasure until dawn, Jun Wuyuan finally remembered he was a human being and stopped. He embraced Ling Shan, who was already exhausted, and fell asleep with her.
Before falling asleep, his handsome face, radiant like spring flowers after satisfaction, reluctantly leaned over and kissed her again.
A loud slap echoed.
Jun Wuyuan stood still, a rare look of dumbfoundedness on his handsome face.
His pair of eyes stared blankly at Ling Shan, whose brows were full of annoyance. Normally, he would have grabbed her cheek and scolded her, "How dare you! How insolent!"
But the first thought that came to his mind was, wasn't this not the first time she had been insolent?
This audacious girl, was she really not afraid that he would chop off her head now?
Jun Wuyuan let out a cold snort, but his hand, as if having its own consciousness, grabbed her slightly red hand and kneaded it.
The frown on Ling Shan's brow caused by annoyance gradually relaxed. Her fair and delicate face subconsciously rubbed against his chest. She clung to Jun Wuyuan with her hands and feet, the corner of her lips slightly curving as she fell back into a deep sleep.
Tsk.
Jun Wuyuan secretly clicked his tongue and quietly cursed, "Spoiled thing." But his hand kneaded more gently. He then leaned over and gently kissed her between the brows.
Not wanting to disturb the spoiled thing in his arms anymore, Jun Wuyuan pulled her into his arms and closed his eyes to sleep, completely ignoring the Sifang Hall, which had been in chaos and almost turned upside down the previous night.
And, as expected, the Yaotai Golden Phoenix had smashed a lot of porcelain and ornaments in the middle of the night.
In this great show, except for those who were not involved, only those in the Jiuzhou Qingyan Pavilion had a good night's sleep.
The Queen Mother's face was ashen, as cold and dark as ink. Her heart was in turmoil, and she coughed heavily.
Failed?
Even with the long - lost secret medicine, they still couldn't succeed?
That secret medicine was rare and hidden. Jun Wuyuan could never have discovered it. And since he had stayed in the Sifang Hall for so long, how could he have escaped?
But the fact was that her people had seen with their own eyes that Jun Wuyuan had returned to the Jiuzhou Qingyan Pavilion.
Where was Qing Yuan, who had carried the secret medicine?
For some reason, a sense of unease welled up in the Queen Mother's heart. She quickly ordered someone to bring Qing Yuan back.
Whether dead or alive, they must not let the person go missing just because the plan had failed. If the matter of the secret medicine was discovered, or...
In the first rays of the morning sun, the Queen Mother, who had been tortured by dark nightmares in the second half of the night, looked as pale as a ghost.
"What did you say?"
The figure kneeling in front of the screen trembled. Even though it could feel the sharp and knife - like gaze, it had to repeat the answer.
"Reporting to Her Majesty the Queen Mother, Qing Yuan is dead... When your subordinates found the body, it was... in the Sixth Prince's room..."
To be precise, it was on the bed of Prince Wang Liuye - Wang Chengye.
Although he didn't know why the Queen Mother was so eager to have them find Qing Yuan, who was just a pawn, he knew it was a very important matter.
Although his words were a bit stuttering, every word fell into the ears of the Queen Mother and Nanny Dou.
The color instantly drained from the Queen Mother's face. Even Nanny Dou's face turned pale and she dropped the porcelain cup in her hand in a hurry.
How could this happen?
That secret medicine was not something anyone could touch!
Otherwise, the Queen Mother wouldn't have hidden it all this time and not used it against Jun Wuyuan, right?
Now, after finally taking the risk and dragging all the princes into this operation, the result was that they had sent the person to the Sixth Prince's bed?
Didn't that mean...
Nanny Dou didn't dare to think about that terrible outcome.
If it was true, wouldn't the Wang family be in even more trouble?
It was well - known that the Sixth Prince was the legitimate son of the Wang family in this generation and was as precious as the apple of Xue's eye.
Previously, Miss Chengbi had been abandoned and died alone in the Jiyuan Garden. Xue already had a grudge in her heart. If something happened to the Sixth Prince...
Nanny Dou couldn't even imagine what Xue, as a mother, might do in a fit of madness.
The one who had been hunting geese all day had finally been pecked in the eye by a goose.
No one had expected that the outcome that was supposed to befall the person in the Jiuzhou Qingyan Pavilion had now landed on the Wang family.
"Your Majesty..."
Nanny Dou was full of worries, but hesitated and didn't know what to say when she opened her mouth.
The Queen Mother's face was extremely ugly. She first suppressed her emotions and told the person to retreat. Then she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Your Majesty!"
Nanny Dou's eyes widened in panic. She shouted out and rushed over to support the Queen Mother with a panicked look on her face.
"This old servant will go and invite the imperial physician right away..."
"No—"
The rosy complexion that the Queen Mother had finally managed to regain after many days of recuperation instantly turned deathly pale, as if there was a layer of deathly aura on her face.
Nanny Dou looked at her young mistress, who had shown such stubbornness for the first time in more than a decade. Her eyes couldn't help but turn red.
Holding back her tears, she quickly poured a cup of green tea and carefully served the Queen Mother to drink it. She nervously patted the Queen Mother's back.
It wasn't until she saw the Queen Mother's face gradually relax that Nanny Dou's heart finally settled down.
"Your Majesty, how could Qing Yuan end up on the Sixth Prince's bed? Could it be..."
The Yuhua Palace was very large, divided into inner and outer parts. All the princes and ministers were in the outer garden, and it was midnight.
If Qing Yuan, who was in the inner garden, didn't have someone's help, how could she have passed through the heavy guards and reached the outer garden, and then accurately found her way into Wang Chengye's room?
"It was that bastard Jun Wuyuan who did it!"
The Queen Mother's eyes were cold, and she gritted her teeth as if she wished she could eat his flesh immediately. Her face was distorted.
"Your Majesty, doesn't this mean that His Majesty is aware of the secret medicine?"
That was a secret medicine that had been lost for nearly a hundred years. There were only a few people in the Great Yan Dynasty who knew about it.
The Queen Mother had many similar lost secret medicines in her hands, but she rarely showed them.
If it weren't for Jun Wuyuan's pressing step by step and the repeated losses of the Wang family's power, the Queen Mother wouldn't have been willing to take out such a thing.
It wasn't that the medicine wasn't good; it was just too good. Once it was used, it might make people think of some life - threatening matters.
The Queen Mother didn't think it would be so troublesome to deal with Jun Wuyuan before. There were plenty of ways.
But, how long had it been?
In less than a year, Jun Wuyuan had grown to the point where the Queen Mother was forced to use the secret medicine to deal with him.
When had the Queen Mother and the Grand Tutor Wang ever suffered such coercion and humiliation?
But they had used the medicine, and not only had it failed, but the person who had been affected had become Wang Chengye?
The Queen Mother and Nanny Dou knew very well what the final outcome of the secret medicine would be.
"Your Majesty, what should we do now?"
Wang Chengye's fate of being half - dead was already doomed. This wasn't something that could be given up like Wang Chengbi.
Nanny Dou felt that the storm might really be coming.
"Call Xue into the palace. I have something to order her."