chapter 94

The emperor was also reminded and said, “Nangong Ning, I know your bracelet can help detoxify others, and I remember that you saved my brother’s life with this bracelet last time. Please detoxify my daughter as soon as possible!”

Hearing the emperor say the same, Concubine Anli became even more excited. She urged Nangong Ning loudly again, asking her to make haste to detoxify the princess.

The expression on Concubine Anli’s face clearly showed her selfishness at that moment. Queen Xun looked on at Concubine Anli’s behavior and felt very angry. She did not understand that Concubine Anli’s expression and behavior clearly revealed that she was a cruel woman, but the emperor still believed in her. Though the Queen wanted to help Nangong Ning, for the emperor had asked Nangong Ning to save the princess, she could say nothing to change his mind. The Queen sighed silently in her heart, thinking that it was a pity that Nangong Ning might die because of Lady Anli’s plan.

Nangong Ning listened to Lady Anli’s request with a burning sense of anger. She wanted to save the princess originally, but Lady Anli stopped her, so now she could only transfer poison to her body by using the bracelet, but she did not want to follow Lady Anli’s plan and see her exciting face. The emperor’s words also made her angry, which made her understand that, probably in the emperor’s mind, at the cost of her own life to save his daughter was a matter of course. But she would not let them get what they wanted. She still cherished her life very much and would never sacrifice herself for the princess.

“Please do me a favor.” She turned her head and looked at Ju Qianye standing beside her. She thought, Jun Qianye just did not allow her to use the bracelet, so should he also not want her to die?

Jun Qianye frowned and said in a cold voice, “Are you really going to transfer the poison to yourself?”

“Well, what else could we do?” “Nangong Ning said, shrugging helplessly.

Jun Qianye looked at her and asked, “What do you want me to do?”

Nangong Ning put her hand on his wrist, looked at Jun Qianye with a hopeful look, and said, “Could you help me neutralize the poison?”

Jun Qianye stared at her hand in silence. Although she held his wrist tightly, she was not strong enough to hurt him, but strangely enough, he felt that the place where his wrist touched her skin was burning. Then he looked back at her face and saw that she was still staring at him. He nodded his head subconsciously as she stared intently at him.

Both the volume of the conversation was not high and the other people can’t understand the said content, so the people on the bridge did not hear clearly. Only Lady Anli who didn’t hear clearly what they said either but just felt a little nervous, stared at Nangong Ning, and said sternly, “Why don’t you start detoxification for my daughter?”

“Lady, what are you in such a hurry for?” Nangong Ning rolled her eyes at Lady Anli and said with disdain.

Lady Anli glared at Nangong Ning, with her expression growing more somber, and opened her mouth to say something, but Nangong Ning began to transfer the poison before she could make a sound.

All eyes were fixed on Nangong Ning at her action.

The bracelet was known to transfer poison from someone else’s body to the bracelet’s owner, but it had never been seen to do so. This was the kind of amazing thing that people wanted to see happen, so they all held their breath.

Nangong Ning had said that no one could cure the princess of her poison, which meant that she would die of it after receiving the poison transferred from the princess.

Although no one said anything, the people watching felt that Nangong Ning was brave.

They stared at Nangong Ning to see if anything special would happen, but they were disappointed. Nothing happened except that Nangong Ning looked paler and it seemed that something black was flowing in her veins, and it looked as if the poison had really been transferred into her body by the bracelet. But otherwise nothing unusual happened. The princess did not wake up, and Nangong Ning did not faint.

“Well, I’ve transferred the poison from the princess.”Nangong Ning said, her voice was weak, as if she was trying to suppress something.

Lady Anli said angrily at the first time, “Why are you all right? Why hasn’t my daughter woken up yet? !”

Nangong Ning frowned, ignoring Lady Anli’s query, and looked at Jun Qianye who took the princess in one hand and reached out with the other to take Nangong Ning hand. As soon as he touched her skin, he frowned for finding that her fingers were now cold, almost like the skins of a corpse.

Jun Qianye quickly injected a little internal force into her body through skin contact. The force travels through her body along her veins, suppressing the toxins in her body so that they didn’t explode and end her life at once. After about a dozen minutes, her hand became warm again, not like a dead hand, and the black things disappeared, but her face was still very pale, and her lips had no color. Even so, she looked at him gratefully and whispered, “Thank you.”

Jun Qianye frowned again and said, “All I can do is suppressing the toxins in you for a while so they don’t spread quickly through you, but you still don’t have much time.”

Nangong Ning gently responded, indicating that she understood, and gave Jun Qianye a slight smile. Her smile made him even angrier, thinking that, was she not afraid to die? How could she able to smile?

Then the Emperor could not help asking, “What is the matter now?”

“Do you know, your Majesty, that the Princess has a little special body?” Nangong Ning asked, turning to the Emperor. Her voice was weak, but her words were still clear.

For a moment the Emperor did not quite understand her sudden question, but he nodded.

Lady Anli, however, suddenly understood the meaning of this remark, and her face changed.

“The princess was born allergic,” Nangong Ning added. “After she was poisoned, she accidentally touched something that made her allergic, and the poison changed in her body. Lady, do you know that the reason why the doctor she sent could not cure the Princess is that the poison has mutated?”Nangong Ning said, looking at Lady Anli.

When Lady Anli heard Nangong Ning’s words, her face changed again and she suddenly realized that this was the reason why the doctor could not save her daughter. Lady Anli knew what Nangong Ning said was right. From the moment Qingle was born, Lady Anli found that her daughter was allergic to many things. Fortunately, Qingle was a princess, so if she was usually careful, she would be safe. That’s why Lady Anli forgot about her daughter’s allergies.

If it was as Nangong Ning said, then the princess was really dangerous this time!

Lady Anli was now really alarmed, and said, “Since that’s the case, hurry up and continue to detoxify my daughter! Just transfer the poison into your body and so the princess will be all right!”

“Lady, you don’t take other people’s lives seriously, do you?” Nangong Ning said angrily “Because of the princess’s allergy, even if I transferred all the poison into my body and die, the princess would not wake up!”

“What did you say?” Lady Anli felt that blackness suddenly appeared before her eyes and she could not see anything.

Ignoring her, Nangong Ning went on to say to the Emperor, “Your Majesty, I have removed only half of the poison. In this way, the princess will be safe for the time being, and I will be able to stay awake, so that I can keep studying on the poison and find the way to cue the Princess, more importantly, I need to know more things about the Princess’s allergies, otherwise,” she was so weak that she had to take a break and catch her breath before she could go on, “and the Princess will not wake up because of her allergy.”

The emperor looked very bad, too. After hearing what Nangong Ning said, he immediately said, “Well, do as you say! Make up the antidote to save my daughter.”

Lady Anli opened her mouth and tried to disturb Nangong Ning again, but she knew that her daughter’s life was in danger, so she did not dare to hinder Nangong Ning any longer. More importantly, even the emperor, who now had his daughter’s life in his heart, would had suspected her if she had been against Nangong Ning. She had to put up with Nangong Ning’s presence for now.

Having succeeded in persuading the emperor, Nangong Ning turned to Jun Qianye again for help. Jun Qianye certainly knew what she was up to, and though it seemed that he was impatient, he put his arm round her shoulders and skittered, carrying her straight from the boat to the shore.

As soon as hitting the ground, Nangong Ning felt her legs go limp and fell straight into Jun Qianye’s arms. Jun Qianye said sourly, supporting her, “You want to go to the Royal Pharmacy, don’t you?”

Nangong Ning nodded, her face was paler then before. Jun Qianye glanced back at the Emperor, who nodded gravely then he turned, took her with him, and flew again to the Royal Pharmacy.

Many people were shocked by the scene.

In their minds, the Regent should not have liked Nangong Ning much, but the scene had overthrown what they had imagined. They were shocked to find that the Regent treated her well.

They did not seem to be in love with each other, and they were not very close in words, but she could command the Regent, and he took her away. How about themselves? They could not even get near the Regent!

The most shocked person was Lady Anli. Compared to others, she could feel that Jun Qianye treated Nangong Ning differently than he treated others. Lady Anli found that even if she had been also engaged to Jun Qianye many years ago, he had not said a word to her.

She was so determined to live in the palace and become the emperor’s mistress because she had been dissatisfied with Jun Qianye’s attitude towards herself and wanted to make him regret. But Jun Qianye took no notice of it, and as it turned out, she was probably the only one who regretted it.

The Emperor looked back at Lady Anli, and saw that she looked pale, and thought that she was worried about the princess, so he said gently, “You need not worry too much. As Nangong Ning can save my brother, she can also save our daughter.”

Lady Anli gritted her teeth and took a deep breath to hold back the mournful fire that was now burning in her, to make sure that she would not reveal that she was angry at not having killed Nangong Ning. She gave a wonderful pitiful expression, and the tears rolled in her eyes and touched her lashes like tiny crystals. As she sobbed, she said, “Your Majesty, I am so afraid. Qingle is my only daughter.”

“Do not be afraid, I accompany you, let us go to see her,” said the Emperor, taking Lady Anli by his hand and going away.

Queen Xun, who had been watching them from behind, blushed with anger at the sight. She snorted, and trotted after the Emperor. The others followed the Queen in silence.

Jun Qianye and Nangong Ning soon arrived at the Royal Pharmacy, where the servants, alarmed at the sight of the Regent, fell to their knees and saluted.

As Nangong Ning looked weaker and weaker, Jun Qianye paid no attention to the servant, but sat Nangong Ning down, laid the Princess on a bed, and asked Nangong Ning, “What herbs do you need?”

Nangong Ning had already figured out what she needed, so that although she was now very weak, she was able to name a dozen herbs fluently.

The names of herbs were engraved on every drawer of the chest of drawers in the Royal Pharmacy. Jun Qianye had good eyesight and good reflex nerves, and almost the second after Nangong Ning had said the names he had found all the herbs she needed.

Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and Doctor Song rushed in, panting. When Nangong Ning saw Doctor Song, she told Jun Qianye to give all the herbs to the doctor and let Doctor Song brew them according to the method she would give.

Doctor Song was the chief doctor, so it was easy for him to prepare medicine. He did not ask for help, and soon had the medicine ready in her way.

Just as the bitterness of the medicine was spreading in the pharmacy, the Emperor and others arrived. When they entered the pharmacy, it was crowded with people.

Nangong Ning frowned. She had to stand up and salute the Emperor, but now she had no strength.

Jun Qianye went up to the Emperor, bowed his hand to him, and said, “Brother, Nangong Ning is now too ill to salute you. Please forgive her.”

He helped me? Nangong Ning thought, looking at Jun Qianye in surprise.

The Emperor looked at Nangong Ning and saw that she was really weak and had to sit back in her chair, so he accepted what Jun Qianye said. The Emperor was not surprised, but the others, especially Lady Anli, knew at once that Jun Qianye was protecting Nangong Ning. Everyone was shocked and glared at her threateningly.