Lose My Heart to the Lovely Kitten Princess - Chapter 95
Chapter 95 Chu Hongyi falls severely ill
“Are you afraid of me?” Imperial consort Su gestured nonchalantly. Nanny Liu dragged the young palace maid over and pressed her head on the shiny marble ground.
“No, Your… Your Grace…” The palace maid spoke with great difficulty.
However, Nanny Liu quickly covered her mouth and stifled her words.
The palace maid stopped breathing after struggling briefly. Imperial consort Su told Nanny Liu to take care of the maid without even opening her eyes. “Leave no clues behind.”
“Yes, Your Grace.” Nanny Liu dragged the young palace maid out of Shufang palace effortlessly.
The marble floor was mopped a few times even though it was so clean that reflections could be seen while a threatening glow radiated from it.
Chu Hongyi spent a few days acting sick and had just passed out in front of all the maids and servants at Jinxiu Palace.
Regardless of how the imperial physicians examined him, he failed to come to and lost weight gradually.
Before long, everyone in the palace kept talking about it even after imperial consort Su suppressed the news.
All the powerful people had eyes on the palace, including Chu Yunshen.
The moment Chu Hongyi fainted, the secret guard sent word to Xiaowu.
Xiaowu reported the latest news about Chu Hongyi to Chu Yunshen promptly.
“Are you saying that Prince Xuan has fainted out of the blue and has only gotten worse despite treatment?”
“Yes, Master,” replied Xiaowu cautiously. “Also, there is a lot of gossip going on in the palace about this. Most of the people say…”
“What?” Since Chu Yunshen felt annoyed, he sounded stern.
“A lot of them say that Prince Xuan is not going to make it,” said Xiaowu even more warily.
“Nonsense!” Chu Yunshen slammed the table so hard that a cup fell off the table with a clang.
Cheng Xiaoxiao was so startled that her fur exploded.
She didn’t expect Chu Yunshen to care about Chu Hongyi so much.
Even though Cheng Xiaoxiao knew the truth, she couldn’t tell Chu Yunshen about it. Instead, she jumped into his arms and rubbed her head on his chest affectionately in an attempt to comfort him.
Chu Yunshen told Xiaowu to keep his eyes on the matter and report if anything changed.
Everyone in the palace genuinely felt that Prince Xuan had passed out from the huge scare he suffered and was about to die.
Imperial consort Su had no choice but to tell everyone that Prince Xuan was sick and failed to recover regardless of treatment.
However, the imperial physicians were working hard trying to come up with the right prescription. She was certain that they would find the right treatment soon.
Everyone felt sad about imperial consort Su when she continued to deceive herself, thinking there was still hope for Prince Xuan.
Imperial consort Zhao had her eyes on Chu Hongyi as well.
She was puzzled when she heard that Chu Hongyi had become seriously ill and was untreatable.
Why were things different from her plans?
She had clearly told Doudou to kill Chu Hongyi and make it look like suicide. How did Chu Hongyi end up in a coma?
Also, she was unable to get in touch with Doudou, so she wondered where he was gallivanting.
In any case, Caidie kept reporting false information about Chu Hongyi to Wet Nurse Zhao while she worked for Nanny Liu. News about Prince Xuan’s deteriorating health and coma kept reaching Wet Nurse Zhao daily.
……
Caidie came to report on Chu Hongyi as usual.
“Wet Nurse Zhao, things have dragged on for some time now. It’s about time that we do it.” Imperial consort Zhao was finally confident that her plans to kill Chu Hongyi had worked out.
“Yes, Your Grace. I will prepare now, and we can do it tomorrow.”
Imperial consort Zhao did not avoid Caidie when they discussed this.
They probably didn’t dream that the meek Caidie was now a traitor.
Imperial consort Zhao wasn’t in the mood to think about why she was unable to communicate with Doudou. Instead, all she could think about was setting up the altar to perform dark magic the next day.
After all, Prince Xuan was about to die, so she didn’t care about where the ghost was.
After she performed dark magic tomorrow, Prince Xuan was a goner!
The moment imperial consort Zhao heard that Chu Hongyi had fainted, she spent the night thinking about all the ways she could take Chu Hongyi out of his misery.
Since he was already half-dead, there was no sense in prolonging his pain, right?
Caidie informed imperial consort Su about imperial consort Zhao’s plans to perform black magic.
Cheng Xiaoxiao spent her time waiting in Wan Xia’s quarters while she waited for news from the palace.
At night, Chu Hongyi’s men finally placed his token in Prince Jing’s garden.
Doudou had been checking on it daily. Now it was finally here!
Doudou spotted the token immediately and told Cheng Xiaoxiao about it right away. “It’s here! We have confirmation from Chu Hongyi!”
Cheng Xiaoxiao was lying on the table and feeling so bored that mushrooms were about to grow on her. The moment she heard the news, she jumped onto the ground.
“It’s finally here! You ought to know imperial consort Zhao’s palace well, right? Tomorrow, you will take me there. Chu Hongyi will probably be waiting for us there.”
After all the time Doudou spent with Cheng Xiaoxiao, he started to seem a little more human.
It was the first time that he participated in such a major scheme with his friends, so he childishly sang all night as he sat on the ceiling beam.
Oh yes. Cheng Xiaoxiao was the one who told him they were friends.
His singing disturbed Cheng Xiaoxiao’s sleep, and he only stopped after she scolded him.
The sun slowly rose and cast its light upon the land. The atmosphere was so dry that it felt like it was on the verge of burning up.
It was almost autumn, but the weather was strangely hot.
Doudou led Cheng Xiaoxiao to imperial consort Zhao’s Shufang Palace as they dodged the guards.
Chu Hongyi was supposed to have a dying flash of lucidity today and was already waiting outside the quarters.
Was he planning on waiting for the emperor so blatantly in the open?
Cheng Xiaoxiao watched as Chu Hongyi waited outside Shufang Palace and couldn’t resist dissing him.
Although Chu Hongyi was sweating profusely from the sun, he caught Cheng Xiaoxiao firmly in his arms when he saw the familiar white silhouette darting over.
The moment Chu Hongyi raised her before his eyes, she slapped him without hesitation.
“Meow! Meow meow!”
Did he want the whole world to know that they were involved in the plot?
Chu Hongyi finally composed himself from the joy of seeing Cheng Xiaoxiao when she slapped his face. “Oh yes! I’m supposed to be sick!”
Fortunately, he disguised himself as a eunuch before sneaking his way here. The maids and servants usually bowed to him when they saw him. Since no one had done it on the way here, no one knew he was here.
He stroked Cheng Xiaoxiao’s fur and whispered, “Don’t worry. No one knows I’m here.”
Cheng Xiaoxiao almost cried maternally when he finally realized what she was driving at.
Wow! This dumbass was finally smart for once!
Since Doudou knew about a side entrance into Shufang Palace, Chu Hongyi carried Cheng Xiaoxiao before he darted in.
……
Imperial consort Su was kneeling in the imperial study and begging the emperor, “Your Majesty, Hongyi finally regained consciousness today and looks well. Why don’t you visit him today?”
Chu Hongzhen helped imperial consort Su up tenderly and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. “What are you doing? Get up this instant. I was too busy with work that I neglected him. Since he is unwell, I should visit.”
The two of them immediately set out for Jinxiu Palace.
Imperial consort Su suddenly frowned when they got near Shufang Palace and asked quizzically, “Your Majesty, can you smell something?”
“What is it?” Chu Hongzhen halted and asked imperial consort Su tenderly.
“I don’t know either. It’s just a strange smell that seems to be coming from Imperial Consort Zhao’s quarters.” Imperial consort Su looked worried. “Could there be a fire? What if something happened to her? Your Majesty let’s go check. I’m really worried some accident might have befallen her.”
Chu Hongzhen patted imperial consort Su’s hand lovingly. “You’re always so kind! Fine. Let’s go take a look. Yuan Qing, let’s go to Shufang Palace!”
Yuan Qing was puzzled to see all the maids and servants outside the quarters. Could some accident have happened to imperial consort Zhao?
“Why are you out here? Don’t you have to take care of Imperial Consort Zhao?”
All the maids and servants knelt on the ground and didn’t dare reply.
Yuan Qing scolded them angrily, “Are you dead? Don’t you see His Majesty standing here? Hurry up and tell us what happened!”
The moment imperial consort Zhao heard the maids and servants greeting the emperor outside, she was so frightened that sweat appeared on her lovely face.
Shouldn’t the emperor be at the imperial study working now? What was he doing at Shufang palace?
Wet Nurse Zhao was at a loss as well as she stood next to imperial consort Zhao. For once, she didn’t know what to do.
In a matter of seconds, they became anxious.
How was imperial consort Zhao going to freshen up and receive him now?
“If he comes in, he is bound to see the dark magic we are performing. What should we do now?” asked imperial consort Zhao in shock to Wet Nurse Zhao.
Imperial consort Zhao didn’t realize her face was so pale that she seemed like she was looking at her last ray of hope when her eyes landed on Wet Nurse Zhao.
Wet Nurse Zhao looked at the frightened woman pitifully.
She could almost see how imperial consort Zhao appeared as a child when her father punished her.
Her father used to be just a local magistrate, and she was his youngest daughter.
Since imperial consort Zhao was a concubine’s offspring, she was not well-loved.
Despite her effort to get her father’s attention, he despised her. He didn’t bother to protect her when his other daughters bullied her.
Back in the day, imperial consort Zhao would pull the corner of Wet Nurse Zhao’s robes and powerlessly cried as she asked her what she should do as well.
All these years, she watched as the baby turned into a young woman before she became a ruthless imperial consort fighting for survival in the palace.
Imperial consort Zhao led such a hard life.
In the past, she suffered because of her mother. Now she suffered for her son.
She never had a moment of joy in her life.
How could she leave imperial consort Zhao in the lurch?
When the emperor decreed that imperial consort Zhao’s oldest sister was to join his harem, Wet Nurse Zhao plotted and smeared her name.
After imperial consort Zhao made it into the harem, Wet Nurse Zhao helped to ensure everything went smoothly.
Prince Qing was adorable and resembled imperial consort Zhao.
Wet Nurse Zhao even carried him when he was a baby.
Even though he was just a baby, he grew up in no time.
They wanted Prince Qing to become the future emperor, so they killed children and raised their spirits as little demons to get where they were now.
Their success certainly didn’t come by easy.
