The Fifteenth Prince frowned as he looked at Doctor Liu.
"Quickly, prescribe something to stop my coughing, cough cough cough."
He felt that if he didn’t stop coughing soon, his wound might even tear.
It was a heart wound, tearing it would be fatal.
After drinking the herbal medicine, the Fifteenth Prince still couldn’t stop coughing and suspiciously looked at Doctor Liu.
"This medicine is useless."
Doctor Liu’s medical skills shouldn’t be just this, considering he saved the General who was poisoned with Yama Powder and himself with a stabbed heart.
The Fifteenth Prince coughed up a mouthful of blood, splattering onto Doctor Liu’s clothes.
Doctor Liu was utterly flustered.
The Fifteenth Prince remembered that Pei Shu’er was also skilled in medicine and couldn’t help but speak.
"Quick, send a soldier to find Pei Shu’er."
The soldier called for Pei Shu’er at the tent entrance, but Pei Shu’er was sleeping soundly and didn’t wake up.
Tang Zan, however, hadn’t slept at all. He sat up and tugged on Pei Shu’er’s sleeve.
"A soldier is looking for you."
Pei Shu’er turned over, not wanting to bother.
But the soldier outside was becoming more agitated, seeming intent on barging into the tent if Pei Shu’er didn’t come out.
Tang Zan again patted Pei Shu’er, and she finally woke up.
Her eyes still blinked sleepily, but she quickly sat up.
She knew very well that this matter must be related to the Fifteenth Prince.
Probably because Doctor Liu couldn’t heal him, he thought of her.
She just didn’t expect Doctor Liu to be so inept that he couldn’t even handle a cough.
She dressed and followed the soldier out.
Tang Zan instinctively wanted to follow but stopped at the tent entrance, realizing there was no need to overly concern himself with Pei Shu’er.
Once Pei Shu’er walked a certain distance, Tang Zan closed his eyes for a moment and summoned Di Yi.
"Follow Pei Shu’er. If she encounters danger, act to rescue her."
With Pei Shu’er not here, his heart finally felt a relief from all his tangled emotions.
Pei Shu’er arrived outside the Fifteenth Prince’s tent, and the sound of his coughing was loud enough to seem like he was coughing up his lungs.
As soon as Pei Shu’er entered the tent, Doctor Liu pointed angrily at her.
"Pei Shu’er, this is all your fault. Did you poison his food, making the Fifteenth Prince so severely ill?"
Pei Shu’er found it amusing, "Where did I poison the food? I’ve not even interacted with the Fifteenth Prince; how would I poison him? As for eating my cooked food, it’s just the same basic food we eat ourselves, nothing fancy, but the Fifteenth Prince insisted on eating it."
"Perhaps Doctor Liu, being so vile himself, imagines everyone else to be as vile?"
After saying this, Pei Shu’er couldn’t hide the mockery on her face.
Doctor Liu’s face turned alternately blue and white at Pei Shu’er’s words, his lips trembling.
He was about to retort when the Fifteenth Prince coughed.
"Stop talking, treat me first, otherwise, cough cough, I’ll cough myself to death."
Pei Shu’er indifferently replied, "Isn’t Doctor Liu here?"
The Fifteenth Prince’s coughing grew worse.
Pei Shu’er noticed that his complexion was already slightly ashen.
It seemed he might really die.
Pei Shu’er shook her head, "Can’t treat it."
Doctor Liu sneered, "Pei Shu’er, if you don’t treat him, you’ll be the first to suffer if anything happens to the Fifteenth Prince."
Pei Shu’er shrugged dismissively at Doctor Liu.
"My medical skills can’t compare to Doctor Liu’s. If Doctor Liu has no solution, how could I possibly have one?"
Saying this, Pei Shu’er shrugged again, and Doctor Liu’s face became extremely unpleasant.
"Pei Shu’er, today you must treat him, whether you want to or not."
Pei Shu’er laughed shoulder shaking, she chuckled softly.
"So, since Doctor Liu can’t treat him and keeps asking me to do it, he must believe my skills surpass Doctor Liu’s?"
Doctor Liu gritted his teeth; he couldn’t possibly drive Pei Shu’er away now.
Otherwise, if the Fifteenth Prince truly suffers, Pei Shu’er won’t survive.
And he, having stayed in the military tent for so long, would likely be held accountable too.
After saying this, she was about to leave when the Fifteenth Prince quickly grabbed Pei Shu’er’s hand, his face ashen. His survival instincts overcame all concerns.
"I know you have the ability."
The Fifteenth Prince said, "Name your price, and I’ll agree to anything."
Pei Shu’er laughed, prying each of the Fifteenth Prince’s fingers away one by one.
"I saved you once already. If you don’t value your life, I won’t save you a second time."
Yan Hengjin was momentarily stunned, unable to mind Pei Shu’er’s rudeness.
His mind was in a fog, unsure of what Pei Shu’er meant by saving his life. When did Pei Shu’er ever save him?
Doctor Liu’s face turned terrified. Pei Shu’er, how could she say such things? Doesn’t this mean his cover with the Fifteenth Prince is blown?
He knelt before the Fifteenth Prince, hurriedly saying, "Your Highness, you mustn’t be deceived by Pei Shu’er’s words."
Yet the Fifteenth Prince ignored Doctor Liu and turned his gaze towards Pei Shu’er.
Pei Shu’er’s mouth curled slightly, her look of mockery increasingly apparent.
After saying this, the Fifteenth Prince still held tight to Pei Shu’er, sensing that tonight only she could save him.
The Fifteenth Prince started coughing fiercely, and Doctor Liu quickly stepped forward to help ease his breathing.
Pei Shu’er’s lips lightly parted, bending close as she spoke, her eyes filled with faint mockery yet strikingly beautiful.
"If the Fifteenth Prince can do me a favor, speaking to General Zhao to reduce the sentence of the Deserted Mountain people by ten years, then I can save you."
The Fifteenth Prince gritted his teeth and eventually nodded. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel※fire.net
But Pei Shu’er already distrusted the Fifteenth Prince, smiling as she pulled out a sheet of paper, tossing it to him for signature.
The Fifteenth Prince signed while coughing, even pressing a bloody fingerprint at last.
Pei Shu’er gently blew the ink and blood dry before putting it away carefully in her pocket.
She smiled and said, "It’s agreed, then."
She took out a small white porcelain bottle from her sleeve, containing cough syrup, and fed it to the Fifteenth Prince immediately.
The Fifteenth Prince, coughing fiercely, suddenly felt no urge to cough at all.
His throat was no longer dry.
He stared dumbfounded at Pei Shu’er, then at Doctor Liu.
This... the cough Doctor Liu couldn’t treat after numerous attempts?
For Pei Shu’er, it’s solved by a sip of syrup?
The disparity in their medical skills was too vast.
The one assumed to have superior skills turned out to be inept.
Pei Shu’er said, "Do not drink water within an incense stick’s burn."
After saying this, Pei Shu’er left behind another white porcelain bottle.
She smiled looking at the Fifteenth Prince, "Keep this close to you; otherwise, I’m afraid someone might poison it."
Pei Shu’er cast her gaze toward Doctor Liu.
Doctor Liu clenched his teeth, glaring hatefully at Pei Shu’er.
He could not let Pei Shu’er live any longer.
She had already revealed half the truth of the rescue to the Fifteenth Prince.
If he allowed Pei Shu’er to continue living, his own situation would be perilous.