Yunlang - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

About fifteen minutes passed.

Then my body began to feel strange too.

My chest felt heavy, with waves of pain pulsing through it.

Clutching my chest, I had my personal palace maid inform the emperor that I wished to leave the banquet and rest.

Naturally, the emperor would not make things difficult for his imperial elder sister. With a wave of his hand, he let me go.

As I walked through the corridor of Liuyun Palace, I gritted my teeth and cursed inwardly. Why would this perfectly fine body suddenly start hurting? It had to be the Gu the twins had planted in me acting up!

“Summon… the im… hss, the imperial physician…”

My personal maid hurriedly nodded.

Suddenly, the tightly shut door of a side room beside me opened. An ice-cold hand grabbed my arm and dragged me inside.

In my panic, I instinctively tried to cry out, but that person held me tightly and covered my mouth.

“Mmph…”

Yan Zhi lowered his eyes. His hoarse voice brushed my ear as he chuckled softly. “Is Your Highness feeling unwell?”

I closed my eyes and cursed him viciously in my heart. Sure enough, it was his doing!

The Gu had been planted inside my body. As long as the thought crossed his mind, I would suffer pain worse than death.

Yan Zhi’s clothes were half undone, his hair at his temples disheveled. A faint flush colored his handsome, bewitching features, and his pair of cold hands wandered restlessly over me…

“Your Highness, His Majesty put something in the wine. Right now, only Your Highness can help me…”

Though he had been drugged, Yan Zhi’s phoenix eyes remained clear and calm from beginning to end.

I, on the other hand, had lost my outer robe after only a few breaths, leaving me in nothing but a thin undergarment.

How wretched…

The System’s warning still rang in my ears. “If you don’t want to die, follow the plot! Do not resist the twins! Once the storyline is complete, the host will receive a new body and one hundred thousand taels of silver!”

For my life, and for the silver, I bit my lip and endured.

Heat gathered between my legs, and I could not help letting out a soft moan. “Yan Zhi, don’t…”

The next second, the side room door creaked open.

Yan Zhu stood in the doorway, his expression dark.

“Your Highness and my elder brother-what are you doing?”

I startled violently, a sense of shame flooding me as if I had been caught in an affair.

I instinctively looked up at Yan Zhi, only to see his expression was perfectly composed as he tied the ribbons of my undergarment for me.

“Nothing. I was merely helping Your Highness straighten her clothes.”

With that, he bent down, picked up the garments that had fallen to the floor one by one, and patiently dressed me again.

Yan Zhu narrowed his eyes, then suddenly gave a soft laugh. “In that case, why not help Your Highness change into a different outfit?”

Me: “…”

I kept getting the feeling that I was being toyed with by the two of them.

What was strange was that Yan Zhi had clearly drunk the wine the emperor gave him and had been drugged. He had already been planning to do this and that with me…

So why did he suddenly stop at the critical moment? Could it be that his body was not up to the task?

But the book never said he had that kind of problem.

With a hint of suspicion, I looked Yan Zhi up and down a few times.

Noticing my gaze, Yan Zhi stared at me, a teasing smile on his lips. “What is it, Your Highness? Do you need me to do something for you?”

Eek…

I jolted in alarm and quickly shook my head.

“No need! I-”

Before I could finish speaking, a knock sounded from inside the side room.

My personal palace maid lowered her head. Behind her stood an imperial physician.

“Your Highness, the imperial physician is here. Are you… able to let him examine you now?”

From her tone, I heard a trace of bashfulness.

She probably thought I had been doing something with the twin brothers inside the side room.

My face burned too. I hastily tidied my hair in the mirror, then called for the imperial physician to enter.

The imperial physician’s meaningful gaze landed on the twin youths beside me…

I gave a light cough. “I suddenly felt tightness and pain in my chest just now. I do not know the cause.”

The maid draped a handkerchief over my wrist so the imperial physician could take my pulse.

Unease stirred faintly in my heart.

The source of my chest pain was the Gu.

I was not sure whether an ordinary imperial physician could help me remove it.

Sure enough, after taking my pulse, the imperial physician’s expression remained normal.

“Your Highness is merely too fatigued in daily life, which has led to tightness in the chest. Also, in matters of the bedchamber, Your Highness should practice some restraint.”

Me: “…”

As expected, the Gu the twins had planted in me could not even be detected by an imperial physician.

As if sensing my anxiety, the System spoke up to comfort me. “It’s all right, host. Once the twin male leads kill the emperor and seize the throne, your mission will be complete. When the time comes, I will give you a new, healthy body so you can begin a new life.”

Hearing that, I felt a little better.

My body in the modern world had been sent flying by a truck and was completely dead. There was no possibility of going back.

If I could obtain a healthy body and tens of thousands of taels of silver in this world, then spend the rest of my life in peace… a small sacrifice would be worth it.