The Imperial Physician began to examine Ye Qichi’s wounds.
As he undid her clothes and saw her bloodied body, he couldn’t help but gasp. Her body was bitten to such a state, how could she still be alive?!
Most people would have died long ago.
"Just help me clean the wounds a bit," Ye Qichi said.
Lu You had already been crying her eyes out by the side.
Now seeing the severity of the Princess’s wounds, she seemed completely devastated.
How could it be so serious?!
What on earth had she gone through to end up ?
Her body seemed almost dismembered.
How did she even survive this?!
Now, she could even speak.
she was truly, still alive.
The Imperial Physician quickly responded respectfully, "Yes, Princess. But Princess, your injuries... I have been practicing medicine for so long and have never seen anyone with such severe injuries still alive. You are the first."
Ye Qichi did not respond.
Any other person would have been long dead.
Last night, she was indeed resolved to die.
But at the moment of death, she couldn’t bear to just give up.
She kept forcing herself to stand up over and over again.
She didn’t know how long it lasted.
Surrounded by wolf corpses, drenched in blood...
Late, the pack of wolves left.
Probably scared off by her.
Probably thinking that this prey wasn’t as easy to kill as they thought.
After the wolves left, she couldn’t move at all.
That moment, she couldn’t even feel pain.
Her whole body was stiff there, just wondering how long she could still live.
How much longer she could live...
Ye Qichi clenched her lips tightly.
The Imperial Physician started treating her wounds.
Her bleeding wounds touched again caused excruciating pain.
She couldn’t help but clench her fist.
The wounds on her fists, due to her effort, bled again from her body.
"Princess, Princess..." Lu You was terrified, trembling all over.
At this moment, not knowing what to do, she could only keep calling out to Ye Qichi.
Ye Qichi, enduring the pain, couldn’t comfort Lu You.
She even thought about fainting from the pain.
That way, she wouldn’t feel the pain anymore...
Gu Xingchuan, just standing outside the screen, kept hearing Lu You’s incessant crying, but he didn’t hear Ye Qichi scream in pain.
How much endurance it must take to keep oneself from making a single sound of pain.
Gu Xingchuan’s eyes reddened a bit.
Standing outside, his fists also tightly clenched.
Before meeting Ye Qichi, he had never been moved by anyone, so he never knew what it felt like for a loved one to be hurt, never knew how unbearable it was inside, wishing all the pain could be borne by him.
Gu Xingchuan’s gaze tightened again.
Tears surged in his eyes, yet he forcefully swallowed them back.
Even if it costs him his life, he will never allow Ye Qichi to suffer such pain again!
Since the discovery of the body of Crown Prince Xiao Jinyan yesterday, all the royal relatives and important ministers have been in the grand hall, with no one leaving.
Crown Prince Xiao Jinxing.
He has now returned to the grand hall, kneeling and bowing, "This son greets Father Emperor."
"Xiao Jinxing!" Xiao Zhanping was furiously enraged, "Who allowed you to leave the Imperial Palace? You are audacious! Without my permission, you dared to leave the palace unauthorised! You even injured my Imperial Guard, what should be your punishment!"
A roar made the already tense grand hall all the more frightening, none dared to make a sound.
Fearful that the Emperor’s wrath might fall upon them.
The death of the Crown Prince had already enraged the Emperor.
No matter how little he expected from this son, he was still his child, and with Xiao Zhanping’s already few descendants, the death of the Crown Prince left only three Princes, surely he was grief-stricken.
Yet under the unknown cause of the Crown Prince’s death, Xiao Jinxing’s unauthorised departure was a severe transgression against the Emperor’s decree.
Xiao Jinxing knelt on the ground and replied, "This son was worried about his wife’s safety and thus left the palace for a while. This son knows his fault and asks Father Emperor to punish him!"
"Detain him!" Xiao Zhanping coldly commanded, "Take the Crown Prince down and give him twenty lashes!"
Everyone in the grand hall gasped.
In recent times, Xiao Jinxing has always been favored by Xiao Zhanping, but now in front of so many people, he decisively ordered the punishment of Xiao Jinxing.