Hot, so hot.
Wei Nanxun felt as if she was in a furnace. Her pink tongue restlessly licked her dry lips. How could this be from just a cup of wine?
Until a pair of hands gently brushed her forehead, reaching her neck and deftly unbuttoning her Chinese knot buttons, her light outer garment slipped off.
She felt a little coolness, brought by those hands, but it didn’t make her feel comfortable. Instead, it made her even more unbearable.
Don’t go, don’t go.
Those hands tore open the belt around her waist again. She felt shame and pleasure. This person was here to save her.
Hot tears slid from the corners of her eyes. In a daze, she saw his face clearly.
Pei Yuyan.
Wei Nanxun suddenly woke up, her eyes wide as she looked around in confusion. Green gauze curtains, a canopy bed, and no one beside her. Was everything just a dream?
But why did it feel so real, including the touch of those cold fingertips on her body? This couldn’t help but remind her of the days when they were intimate.
Everyone said that the Crown Prince was gentle and composed, the number one gentleman in the capital. But no one knew that the Crown Prince was lustful and extremely fond of pleasure in bed. He not only wanted many tricks, but also many styles.
Even though she had to rest for several days after each time she served him, she thought it was just marital bliss. The Crown Prince liked her, and she also admired and liked him, so she endured the shame and cooperated even if it was difficult.
The Crown Prince even favored her, staying with her for most of the month. Even if she was called a vixen, a bewitching Baosi, and endured scorn and humiliation, she was willing and had no regrets.
When she became pregnant, and the concubines and beauties entered the palace one after another, she still comforted herself, thinking that the Crown Prince was trying to win over power and protect them and their child.
Later, when the child was gone, she felt more guilty than sad. Even though she was heartbroken, she still comforted him.
It wasn’t until her older sister became pregnant and she was framed and fed poison by his own hand that she realized how ridiculous she was.
He was the Crown Prince, the future emperor. To him, she was just a master and servant. It wasn’t love, but a gift and alms.
Dreaming of her past life gave her a brief moment of clarity, and it reminded her of her current situation.
She drank a cup of wine with something mixed in it and was helped into the room by the palace maids. The room was decorated very delicately, and she couldn’t tell which side hall it was for a while. There was no one serving in the room at the moment, which was a good time to leave.
But just as Wei Nanxun was about to sit up, that dizzy feeling came over her again.
She had never experienced this in her previous life. She thought that the virtuous concubine wouldn’t use such low-down methods, especially in front of Wei Mingzhao, so she drank a cup. Who would have thought that the problem was with that cup of wine?
Wei Nanxun bit her lower lip tightly and looked around. She finally found the teapot on the table and staggered over, leaning on the bedpost.
The tea was cold, but she didn’t care about her image and eagerly raised her head to drink it. Water droplets spilled from the corners of her mouth, but it still couldn’t relieve the restlessness in her heart.
She had lived in the Eastern Palace for many years in her previous life, and she knew a thing or two about the methods used by the women in the harem to compete for favor. She could roughly guess that the wine had been spiked with an aphrodisiac.
This bit of cold water could only bring back a little clarity, it couldn’t save her. She had to leave and find Wei Mingzhao.
Wei Nanxun thought through this and walked towards the door with her gradually dizzy head. But just then, she heard footsteps coming from outside the door.
“Your Highness, you just drank wine. The Empress is afraid that you will get a headache if you go back and get blown by the wind, so she asked you to rest in the side hall for a while and go back after the alcohol wears off.”
“Where is my aunt?”
“The Empress is still talking to Miss Wei.”
“Understood, step back.”
Wei Nanxun’s gradually dissipating consciousness instantly recovered a little when she heard that familiar voice. No wonder she was given an aphrodisiac…
She didn’t have time to think about whether Pei Yuyan knew about the drugging or not. Once he entered the room, everything would be out of control.
Even if Pei Yuyan was a gentleman and could resist doing anything to her, her reputation would be ruined just by being alone with him. Then she would follow the old path of her previous life, with no hope of redemption.
What’s more, he was never a gentleman!
Wei Nanxun’s arm supporting the table trembled uncontrollably. She had to leave, she had to leave.
She couldn’t go out the door, she would run into Pei Yuyan. She looked around and her eyes fell on the windowsill next to her, but in her current state, there was no way she could climb over the window.
Hearing the approaching footsteps, she bit her lip, her expression hardened, as if she had made a decision. She raised her hand and pulled out the jade hairpin from her bun, and stabbed it into her arm without hesitation.
The jade hairpin broke the skin, and blood flowed out instantly.
When Pei Yuyan pushed open the door, he only smelled the faint warm fragrance in the air. The person he imagined was not there. His brows furrowed slightly. Could it be that he had guessed wrong and his aunt didn’t mean that?
He looked at the empty room and his temples suddenly throbbed. Although he drank the wine quickly just now, it was only half a pot. It shouldn’t have made him drunk.
His footsteps swayed slightly, and his mind gradually became heavy. Just as his consciousness was blurring, he saw a graceful figure walking quickly towards him.
The woman spoke softly and went forward to support him, “Your Highness, Your Highness, what’s wrong?”
Pei Yuyan shook his dizzy head. When he opened his eyes again, the face of the person in front of him actually overlapped with the person in his mind. It was her.
He instinctively wrapped his long arm around the woman’s waist, picked her up, strode to the bedside, and leaned over her.
The woman seemed to struggle, but his large, hot palm covered her eyes, and he said in a hoarse voice with lust, “Be good, trust me.”
Then, the curtains fluttered, and the canopy bed creaked and swayed.
Uncomfortable, so uncomfortable.
Wei Nanxun bit her lower lip tightly, not allowing herself to make a sound. The small, closed cabinet was hot and suffocating, and what she couldn’t bear even more was the restlessness of her body.
Her hands and legs had been stabbed with bloody holes, but they could only bring her a brief moment of clarity, and even that was gradually failing.
What kind of drug was this? The effects were so strong.
Just now, she had relied on her willpower to climb out of the window and kept walking in one direction. She didn’t know if the virtuous concubine had deliberately sent people away, or if she was lucky, but she had actually stumbled out all the way.
She didn’t know how far she had walked, but she heard neat footsteps coming, so she had to break into the nearest garden.
The garden seemed a bit remote, and she didn’t run into any sweeping eunuchs. She relied entirely on her intuition and stumbled all the way to a pavilion and hid in a cabinet on the second floor.
If she was lucky enough to get through it, then so be it. If she couldn’t get through it, she would never let anyone defile her purity.
Let this place be the place she chose to die.
Time passed little by little, and Wei Nanxun finally understood what it meant to be eaten to the bone and pierced to the heart, the feeling of ants and insects gnawing at her body.
Her consciousness gradually blurred, and her hands uncontrollably caressed her body. The clothes were so tight that she felt uncomfortable, so she helplessly pulled at them.
“Hot, so hot, water…”
Someone, please save her…
Just before Wei Nanxun completely lost consciousness, the cabinet door was opened from the outside. In a haze, she saw a tall figure. The string she had been holding taut snapped instantly, and her consciousness completely dissipated.
Her jade arms trembled slightly and she lunged straight at the person.