“Be careful!” Yan Xiu’s face slightly changed, reaching out to grab Li Yuyu.
Startled, Li Yuyu reached out her arm and grabbed randomly, just managing to seize Yan Xiu’s Dragon Robe, using the force to twist her slender waist forcefully.
Not far away, Shen Quan exclaimed “Ah!” and quickly turned around, telling the group waiting: “Quick, quick, turn around.”
Feng Yin and Hua Yin, upon spotting the scene in the pavilion, exchanged a glance, then turned around while suppressing their laughter with pursed lips.
Inside the pavilion.
The imposing man dressed in a black Dragon Robe leaned down, almost completely obscuring the woman in his arms.
He clearly saw the woman’s eyes close at hand gradually turning from surprise to confusion, then finally into panic and shyness.
Li Yuyu felt a slight chill on her lips.
When she realized what it was, she forcefully pushed Yan Xiu off herself.
“Ah!”
“Yu’er!”
“Splash—”
Li Yuyu fell backward into the lake water.
Without a second thought, Yan Xiu followed and leaped in.
Shen Quan was chuckling with his head down, but upon hearing the unusual sound, he turned around, his smile transforming into shock: “Oh my heavens, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, someone, come quickly…”
“Achoo~”
Li Yuyu, wrapped in a thin blanket, huddled on a reddish-brown canopy bed.
“Miss, please drink the ginger tea,” Hua Yin urged, carrying the steaming ginger tea over quickly.
Li Yuyu sniffled and took the ginger tea, drinking it all in one go: “Has the Emperor been sent it yet?”
“The Imperial Kitchen naturally prepared it early.”
“I’m asking if we sent it?”
Hua Yin was puzzled: “Miss, the Imperial Kitchen sent the ginger tea to the Emperor early.
Do we still need to send it?”
“Nonsense!” Li Yuyu sneezed again: “The Emperor jumped into the lake to save me, how can we not send ginger tea?
If I weren’t sick, I would deliver it myself.”
“Go, quickly, you know what, let Feng Yin deliver it, convey my intentions clearly, understand?”
“Yes.” Feng Yin curtsied and replied: “Concubine, rest assured, I know what to say.”
Hua Yin scratched her head, as she caught up with Feng Yin who was going to fetch the ginger tea, carrying the empty bowl out: “Sister Feng Yin, why don’t I understand our Miss’s intention?”
“The Emperor falling into the water is a serious matter.
Even if he was the one jumping, in the Empress Dowager’s eyes, it’s all our Miss’s fault.
Today, Miss drew too much attention, she likely offended everyone in the harem by now.
In the past, well, it’s best to heed the Emperor’s advice and stay confined in Luaxin Pavilion to recuperate.”
Feng Yin said no more, packing the ginger tea into a meal box and headed towards Yangxin Hall.
“Oh dear, please drink the ginger tea, Emperor, or I won’t be able to account to the Empress Dowager.” Shen Quan looked at the steaming ginger tea that had been replaced again, and urged distressingly.
It had already been replaced three times, and the Emperor hadn’t drunk it yet, while the Empress Dowager was still waiting for a reply, this is really…
sigh.
Yan Xiu coldly glanced at Shen Quan: “If it weren’t for your loud shouting, how would Mother even know?”
Shen Quan: …
Can he be blamed?
He heard the sound of someone falling into the water and turned around only to find the Emperor missing, naturally panicked, completely forgetting the Emperor’s strong martial skills.
When Shen Quan approached and saw the Emperor pulling the soaking wet Lady Li out of the lake, he realized he had overreacted, but it was too late by then.
“Emperor, although I acted foolishly today, consider it out of concern, this ginger tea…”