nucmednet Chapter 128 The Queen is Always Cunning
Chapter 128 The Queen is Always Cunning
"Xiaotong, does this mean I'm a married man now?"
Xiao Tong's little head was shaking so much it was almost blurry, and Shen Sangwan didn't even realize she had muted him.
"Isn't that a little unfair to you?"
After all, she was pursuing a mission, and the feelings between the two sides were never equal from beginning to end.
"Then Your Highness should treat Yue Ning even better from now on."
"Hey—you, just talk to me, why do you always like to lie on me?"
Seeing that the other person was pouncing on him again, he quickly got up and tried to escape, but Wen Yuening took the initiative and pinned him down.
"Your Highness's injuries have not yet been examined by Yue Ning."
As he spoke, he started to pull at Shen Sangwan's clothes again.
"Wait...wait a minute—!"
With an extremely serious expression, Shen Sangwan grasped the hand placed on her chest and said solemnly, "My injury is really nothing."
"Your Highness, what are you afraid of?"
Shen Sangwan stubbornly retorted, "Who...who said I was scared? I...no! I'm just a little unaccustomed to people looking at my body."
Upon hearing this, Wen Yuening bit her lip, her eyes instantly filling with tears, and her voice gradually became tinged with aggrieved sobs, "In Your Highness's eyes, is Yuening 'someone else'?"
"Hey—! You...you don't cry, I didn't say anything to you, I'll show you, I'll show you."
Every time she saw the other person looking wronged, Shen Sangwan felt as if she had broken a cardinal rule and would rush to make peace.
As she spoke, she untied her belt, took off her outer garment, and with a couple of clatters, she was left with only a small undergarment.
Blood had already begun to seep out. Upon seeing this, Wen Yue Ning lifted her undergarments, revealing white medicinal powder residue around the edges of the wound.
"Oh, medicine."
Shen Sangwan took out the medicine at some point and handed it to Wen Yuening.
"Don't worry about wiping it, you don't need to be so careful. I took a vitality pill, so I don't feel any pain for the time being."
It would have been better if she hadn't said it, because as soon as she did, tears welled up in Wen Yuening's eyes again.
"Why are you always crying? You usually act like a little adult, but every now and then you put on a tearful performance for me."
"Yuening just felt sorry for His Highness. In the past, His Highness would always return from the battlefield covered in wounds. Every time I applied medicine to His Highness, he would say that it didn't hurt."
"It really doesn't hurt, I'm not lying to you."
As she spoke, Shen Sangwan pressed hard around the wound to prove her point.
"hiss--"
Who knew that as soon as she pressed down, she gasped in pain.
"Hey system, are you doing this on purpose?"
In less than a day, the aftereffects of the Vitality Pill disappeared. It must be that the main system was trying to sabotage her and deliberately made her look bad.
For a moment, Wen Yuening didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and continued to carefully apply the medicine.
Why is Your Highness staring at Yue Ning?
You're beautiful!
Shen Sangwan's direct approach caught Wen Yuening off guard, leaving her hand frozen in mid-air.
"When I first met you at the villa on the outskirts of Beijing, I thought you were beautiful. You were the most beautiful girl I had ever seen. I never expected that we would be so destined for each other."
This seemed to be the first time Shen Sangwan had looked at Wen Yuening so openly and honestly, and even praised her without any attempt to hide it.
Wen Yuening blushed and shyly lowered her head, "Your Highness is also very handsome."
"So even you, Empress, can be shy!"
Shen Sangwan drawled out the last syllable, looking at Wen Yuening with a mocking expression, before closing her clothes and getting up on her own.
Wen Yuening blushed for a while, put the medicine bottle on the table next to her, and tried to say something, but her mouth opened and closed for a long time without uttering a single word.
"Your Majesty, please ask whatever you wish. Now that we have spoken frankly today, I will no longer hide anything from you."
"Your Highness, may I call you Yue Ning from now on?"
"ha--?"
Shen Sangwan had anticipated countless questions the other party might ask, but in the end, it was just a matter of how to address him.
"it is good."
Seeing that Shen Sangwan was easy to talk to, Wen Yuening took advantage of the situation and continued to make demands, "Then can Yuening stay here tonight?"
"His Majesty isn't in your palace, so it might not be appropriate for you to stay here with me!"
"Why do I feel like I'm being set up?"
"Will I be unable to outmaneuver the Empress in the future?"
"So that's what Your Highness thinks of Yue Ning. Then Yue Ning can go back to her own palace."
Shen Sangwan slapped her forehead. How could she forget that the other person could hear her thoughts?
There are no secrets anymore, boohoo!
"I...I don't mean it. I just think this couch is a bit small. It might be a bit cramped for two people to sleep together."
Although she also wanted to sleep with the beauty in her arms, Xiao Yan was lying on the bed now, and the soft couch was only covered with a thin mattress by Shu Yi, so it would definitely be uncomfortable to sleep.
"As long as Your Highness leaves Yue Ning, Yue Ning won't feel crowded with Your Highness."
[What a cunning queen! Last time she was afraid of thunder, and this time she's feigning helplessness. I wonder if I'll wake up with a sore back tomorrow.]
Shen Sangwan silently agreed in her heart, not caring whether the other party could hear her or not, and just wanted to vent her frustration.
"This time you sleep on the inside, and I'll sleep on the outside."
Wen Yuening smiled knowingly, quickly took off her outer clothes, climbed into the inner room of the soft couch, and obediently lay down.
Shen Sangwan clung to him again in the middle of the night, saying, "I'm injured, you...you should sleep well tonight."
Wen Yuening nodded her head slightly under the quilt, her smile never fading.
Seeing that the other party agreed, Shen Sangwan took off her outer garment and crawled into the brocade quilt.
But sleepiness was nowhere to be found. He turned slightly to look at Wen Yuening, "Can you always hear my thoughts?"
Wen Yuening shook her head and moved closer to Shen Sangwan. "It was only after I woke up from that incident where I shielded the Empress Dowager from a knife that I began to hear His Highness's thoughts, but I could only hear His Highness's; I couldn't hear anyone else's."
Hearing only what she could hear, Shen Sangwan was deeply hurt. She had thought the Empress had a cheat code, but it turned out to be just a skill specifically designed to counter her.
"By the way, my adopted brother stayed at your place. You were gone all night, are you really okay?"
"Is Your Highness worried about Yue Ning?"
“Your own intelligence network is even more detailed than mine. You should know better than me what the Southern Jing court is like now. If someone deliberately tries to find fault with you, or if the young emperor uses you as a scapegoat to deal with the Wen family, you and I both know what kind of person Prime Minister Wen is. If he gets cornered and does something rash, I won’t be able to handle it.”
“First of all, His Majesty has signed an agreement with me, just like His Highness, so he will not touch me for the time being. Secondly, everyone inside and outside the Phoenix Palace is one of our own. Anyone with disloyal intentions has either been dealt with by me or sent to other palaces. Your Highness need not worry.”
Shen Sangwan tilted her head and was slightly taken aback. She hadn't expected the Empress to be so much more composed than she had imagined, and she felt increasingly that she would never be able to outmaneuver her in the future.