After finishing breakfast, Luo Qinghan took a sip of tea and asked indifferently, “How do you feel now? Are you still uncomfortable?”
Xiao Xixi clutched her stomach and said pitifully, “Still not very well. This concubine might need to rest for a very long time to fully recover.”
“Since you are uncomfortable, why did you still eat so much just now?”
“This concubine is young and still growing, so I need to eat more.”
Luo Qinghan sized her up. Her face indeed still held a bit of a young girl’s childishness, like a flower bud that had not yet fully bloomed.
His gaze slowly shifted downward…
Xiao Xixi immediately covered her chest. “Where is Your Highness looking?”
Luo Qinghan said coldly, “Do you think you have any place worth looking at?”
Xiao Xixi: “…”
She felt she had been humiliated!
She was a bit flat now, but she was still growing!
She said indignantly, “This concubine will grow. Your Highness should not look down on people!”
The corners of Luo Qinghan’s mouth curled up slightly.
But very quickly, that slight arc dropped back down, returning to his cold and detached appearance.
“I shall wait and see.”
Just then, a young eunuch walked in and said respectfully, “Crown Prince, His Majesty has summoned you to the Discussion Hall.”
Luo Qinghan stood up and spoke to the woman on the bed.
“I am leaving first. Rest well. I will come to see you again tonight.”
Xiao Xixi took the opportunity to ask, “Should I wait for you for dinner tonight?”
Luo Qinghan gave her a meaningful look before responding.
“Mm.”
Even after he had walked far away, Xiao Xixi was still recalling his look just now. Why did that look feel so strange?
Baoqin rushed over and grabbed Xiao Xixi’s shoulders, her small face flushed with excitement.
“Mistress, you finally know how to solicit favor!”
Xiao Xixi’s face was full of question marks. “Solicit what favor?”
“Didn’t you just invite His Highness to have dinner at Qingge Palace tonight? After dinner, His Highness will definitely stay overnight at Qingge Palace. Oh my goodness, you can finally attend to him in bed!”
Xiao Xixi felt as if she had been struck by five bolts of lightning.
Attend to him in bed?
Who wants to attend to him in bed?!
She is still a minor, okay?!
She finally knew what Luo Qinghan’s look before leaving was all about!
He must have also thought she was soliciting favor!
Good heavens, she really had just asked casually, completely intending to just exchange pleasantries with the Crown Prince!
Who knew he would agree?
Who knew that not only did he agree, but he also read so much into it?!
Xiao Xixi collapsed straight on the bed, like a dying salted fish, weakly uttering her accusation: “I was poisoned last night and almost died. I can’t even get out of bed right now, yet you actually want me to attend to him in bed? Do you people still have any humanity?”
Baoqin cleared her head a little.
“Oh right, you are still sick. According to the rules, concubines who are sick cannot attend to the bed.”
Xiao Xixi relaxed. “It seems this imperial palace still has a bit of humanity left. Then I can rest assured.”
“What are you resting assured about? You finally managed to get an opportunity to keep the Crown Prince here. Even if you cannot attend to the bed, you must find a way to deepen the Crown Prince’s impression of you. Only in this way will the Crown Prince come to Qingge Palace frequently in the future, and your favor can last forever without waning.”
Seeing that Baoqin had a tendency to talk endlessly, Xiao Xixi directly pulled the blanket upward to cover her head, pretending to be a salted fish that was already dead and could hear nothing.
Baoqin spoke for a long time. Seeing no reaction from her mistress, she felt angry at her lack of ambition, but because she felt sorry that her body was still very weak, she could not bear to make things difficult for her. She could only leave helplessly.
The news of the Crown Prince being poisoned last night had been kept a secret, and outsiders did not know about it. However, the Emperor and the princes were not considered outsiders. The Emperor had already learned about what happened last night from the mouths of the princes.