Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 62: Fragrant Bones
"Little hoof, let me in!"

The two maids pushed Xue Sui into the room with force. Seeing her fall to the ground and lying motionless, they smiled at each other obscenely and closed the door heavily.

Click!

The sound of a big lock being locked outside made the surroundings exceptionally quiet.

There was no one else in the room.

Xue Sui was silent for a moment, then slowly raised his head and suddenly met a pair of dark eyes.

Hazy and hot, it is like an abyss with no bottom, ruthless but full of profound meaning.

Obviously, Li Zhao was also caught.

He seemed to be in a limp state after being drunk, and he sat powerlessly on the soft couch for people to rest. His neat prince's uniform was slightly wrinkled, and his fair cheeks were abnormally flushed. His chest was heaving, and his eyes were red, which inexplicably made his handsome face look extremely charming, just like a cold and aloof immortal who had fallen into the mortal world and was tempted by mortal desires. There was an inexplicable charm about him...

Xue Sui suddenly felt like laughing.

Li Zhao loves to calculate people's hearts, he didn't expect that he would be plotted against, right?

She could imagine how Pingle would bring those noble ladies, and even the Empress Dowager, the mother of the country, to come and see their jokes if Li Zhao and she could not resist the poison of love and committed an indecent act here.

Seeing her lying in the prince's arms with her clothes untidy, seeing Xue Yuechen horrified and angry at her for not fighting, seeing Empress Xie so angry that she wanted to tear her apart. Seeing the entire Shangjing City laughing at the prince's absurdity and spitting on the sixth lady of the Xue family for being shameless and dissolute...

At that time, Pingle would reveal that familiar casual smile.

He said with disdain: "It's also very boring..."

Pingle is vicious and bold, but unfortunately...

The person she was facing was not the weak and vulnerable Xue Liu from ten years ago.

Xue Sui smiled gently, slowly propped himself up, and met Li Zhao's intimidating eyes.

"How is the prince?"

When she came today, in order not to spoil the fun of the nobles, she put on a little makeup and changed into new spring clothes, dressing up well. With the effect of the love thread, even after taking the antidote given by Yuheng, she couldn't help but feel a little dazed, her eyes were shimmering, misty and affectionate, like a flower with dew on it, stained with the color of rouge...

Lively and fragrant.

An inappropriate word jumped into Li Zhao's mind.

He was startled, ignoring the waves that arose, and spoke coldly.

"Ms. Xue Liu, you are awake..."

The clear voice was mixed with a hint of hoarseness as if it was caused by emotion, which made the ears tremble slightly.

There seemed to be a decadent atmosphere in the air.

Xue Sui narrowed his eyes and looked at Li Zhao: "Your Highness, too."

Although he seemed to be under the control of the drug, he was actually still conscious.

After she finished speaking, she walked towards the heavy wooden table, picked up the pot of cold tea on it, and poured it towards the incense burner with flickering flames.

With a "chi" sound.

The incense ashes were extinguished.

There was still a lingering aroma in the room that enchanted the soul.

Li Zhao looked at her coldly. His eyes were like a knife, sharp and cold, but his chest was inexplicably hot.

In this deep palace, Li Zhao has seen too many vulgar women and has never been obsessed with women. But the girl in front of him, in this charming atmosphere, seemed to have turned into a fairy who sucked his marrow from his bones. Even though he had amazing self-control, he couldn't help himself. It was as if an invisible big hand was strangling his throat. His breathing became tight and he pulled his collar hard, but the stuffiness and heat still couldn't be relieved.

Xue Sui walked towards him.

In the hazy light, she walked lightly...

"Your Highness, can you still bear it?"

The air froze briefly.

Her voice was like the sound of a clear spring in a mountain stream, and the flowers in her hair were condensed with dewdrops from the early morning, which made people daydream...

Li Zhao put his hands under his robe, his body was stiff, but his mouth was mocking.

"Is this another plan of Miss Xue Liu?"

Xue Sui looked at his face and suddenly smiled.

She was pushed into the room by the old woman, but she was conscious and did not look like she had been poisoned, so it was no wonder that Li Zhao was suspicious.

"Xue Liu has no interest in Your Highness."

She slowly bent down, her eyes fixed on Li Zhao's face, so close that she could hear his breathing, and her voice was steady and clear.

"Your Highness, I don't need to tell you who caused the spring poison. If you and I make a fool of ourselves, who in this palace will benefit?"

She lowered her eyes and looked at Li Zhao's arm that was blocking in front of her, her eyes full of smiles.

"From what I have seen, Your Highness has any reaction?"

Li Zhao's pretended calm face almost cracked.

His body was hot, sweat was on his back, his mouth was thirsty, and a boiling hot blood rushed to his lower abdomen like a beast. Especially under her indifferent tone, as if she was talking about the weather, his excited emotions were like burning flames, and his skin was almost scorched under her gaze.

"So, Your Highness can rest assured. I have tasted hundreds of herbs in the Old Mausoleum Swamp, and my body is very resistant to poison. I am afraid that Your Highness will not be able to hold on and beg me for you..."

"Be bold!"

Li Zhao's cold face was full of chillness.

Subconsciously he reached out and grabbed her, strangling her tightly.

"Do you think I dare not kill you?"

"Your Highness dares to do this. He has wanted to kill me for a long time." Xue Sui stared at the prince's flushed face with a broken and desperate expression under the bright sunlight. He curled the corners of his lips and looked at him with an extremely sympathetic and serious gaze.

"But right now, His Highness is more interested in something else than killing me..."

The blush on Li Zhao's face quickly spread to his ears and neck. The hand holding her arm tightened slightly, the base of the palm moved up a little bit, and suddenly with a force, he pulled her over and made her lie on his chest.

"Xue, Liu!"

He gritted his teeth and warned with a slight tremor in his voice.

"Even now, I still have a way to kill you."

Xue Sui frowned.

Clamped by the man's strong arms, she should have had the strength to struggle to get up, but it seemed as if there was an uncontrollable devil calling in her heart, making her stiff body tense and unwilling to leave.

It's the love that's causing the trouble.

She took a deep breath and bargained with him like a shrewd businessman.

"I'm here to save your Highness. It wouldn't be worthwhile to kill me."

She supported Li Zhao's shoulders with her hands and tried to get up.

The next moment, Li Zhao pulled him over with force.

She threw herself into Li Zhao's arms, like a ball of soft catkins hitting her heart.

Li Zhao suddenly became angry.

"do not move!"

Xue Sui's heart tightened.

Is the antidote from Senior Sister Yuheng so slow to take effect? ​​Xue Sui ignored his seductive and cold look and said, "This poison is called Love Thread. It is made by mixing the poisonous insects of Southern Xinjiang and the exotic flowers of the Western Regions. It is refined for 49 days. It won't kill you right away, but if you can't combine your yin and yang with a person within half an hour, the poison will gradually spread throughout your body. From then on, desire will grow like wild weeds. After a year or two, you will slowly fall into madness, neither human nor ghost..."

Li Zhao's eyes flickered slightly.

Every word she said seemed to strike at his bones.

Following the gradually burning blood, it crawled into the bone gaps.

Xue Sui hesitated for a moment, "If Your Highness had not been poisoned and his brain had not been damaged, he would have known how to make choices. It would be more cost-effective to cooperate with me than to kill me..."

Cooperation, how can we cooperate now?

Li Zhao's eyes twitched.

Some of the erotic pictures I had seen kept coming into my mind uncontrollably...

His breathing became rapid as he stared at those bright red lips, wishing he could bite them.

Be bold.

Xue Liu is so bold!

He let out a light breath, let go of Xue Sui's hand with an awkward expression, and held onto the corner of the table. Perhaps because he used too much force, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, and there was a slight tremor in his voice.

"Go away. I don't need you anymore."

Xue Sui pursed her lips slightly and looked at him.

A man who looks calm but is actually corrupted by love.

"Your Highness is worrying too much."

Xue Sui actually admired Li Zhao very much. He did not take the antidote like her, but he could hold on until now and still had the rationality to resist his desire.

Perhaps it was because they shared the same suffering that she could not feel disgusted with Li Zhaosheng at this moment.

"The cooperation I'm talking about is not what Your Highness thinks. I have no intention of sacrificing myself to save Your Highness..."

Xue Sui put one hand on Li Zhao's shoulder, and noticed that Li Zhao's broad shoulders stiffened. He smiled slightly again, lowered his brows and pressed hard, and Li Zhao fell limp on the beauty couch, completely without any strength.

"Look, it's easy for me to do anything to Your Highness right now..."

"Your Highness is powerless to resist me."

Li Zhao breathed slightly.

My hands and feet are numb, and so is my heart.

Wherever she touched, it seemed to be on fire...

Xue Sui said: "Your Highness, don't doubt my intentions. I understand the toxicity because the love thread was drawn from the old mausoleum swamp. So, what I just said is the method of detoxification for ordinary people. In fact, in addition to the combination of yin and yang, there is another way to detoxify."

Li Zhao's eyelids twitched slightly.

The woman's voice reached my ears, and at this moment it was unusually blurry...

This woman is seducing him...

Even if Xue Sui spoke in a normal tone, it sounded like temptation to him.

"Come on." Xue Sui grabbed Li Zhao's hand. His fingertips were warm, like a soft vine, wrapping around him, sliding, and skillfully lifting his sleeves.

"What are you doing?" Li Zhao's cheeks flushed, the effect of the medicine surged in his body, reason and instinct were fighting wildly in his mind, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.

"I warn you, don't be rude to me..."

Xue Sui suppressed the smile in his heart and looked serious.

"Your Highness, you really say one thing and mean another. Are you expecting me to be rude to you?"

"Hiss!" Li Zhao was brought back to his senses by the pain.

Xue Sui reached for his hair and calmly pulled out the jade hairpin. He then pulled out a thin, sharp iron bar from it and used it to cut his finger...

Li Zhao's mind suddenly became clear...

Then he watched Xue Sui pour half a cup of water into the teacup and pull his hand over.

Drops of blood fell onto the water surface, gradually turning it into a rosy red color.

She showed no respect to the prince and squeezed his painful fingers very hard.

Li Zhao didn't move, frowning and looking at her profile.

He had extremely white skin, extremely black eyes, and an extremely thin waist. He stabbed the crown prince with an extremely calm expression.

"It's my turn." Xue Sui said calmly, let go of Li Zhao's hand, and used the same method to pierce his own finger, letting drops of blood flow into the teacup.

Li Zhao's eyes showed confusion and the corners of his lips slightly raised.

"Miss Xue Liu wants to swear a blood oath with me?"

Xue Sui smiled slightly, with a hint of mockery in his voice.

"Bleeding to detoxify. The other method I just mentioned is to let your blood and mine mix, which can also be regarded as a way to harmonize yin and yang. Then you and I can each drink half a cup, which may help detoxify."

She used the word "or" instead of a definite "yes."

Li Zhaoqiang calmed himself and asked in a deep voice: "Xue Liu, what tricks are you playing?"

He is not a stupid man. How could there be such a thing as mixing the blood of two people together to balance the yin and yang, and drinking it to detoxify?
If something is unreasonable, there must be something strange.

Xue Sui didn't respond to him, not even a glance at him.

After enough drops of blood had been dripped in, she shook the teacup solemnly a few times to mix the blood of both people more thoroughly, then she picked it up and handed it to him.

"Time is running out. Pingle will bring someone over any minute. Let's drink."

Li Zhao stared into her eyes without moving.

Xue Liu has sinister intentions and his methods are cruel and vicious, so he has to be on guard against him.

"Hmph!" Xue Sui laughed, suddenly withdrew his hand, and drank half of the tea from the teacup.

Then he placed the remaining half bowl in front of him.

"I tried it, it's non-toxic."

She had a blank expression on her face and sat cross-legged beside Li Zhao.

"Your Highness, if you want to drink it, then drink it. If you don't want to detoxify, that's up to you. At most, Daliang will have one more crazy prince. Prince Duan, Pingle, and Concubine Xiao will be able to rest easy and celebrate, while Empress Xie will be in tears... It's sad to think about it."

Li Zhao stared at her coldly.

Slowly, he stretched out his trembling hand, picked up the teapot that Xue Sui had drunk from, and drank it all in one gulp.

A cool and silky touch slowly rolled into his throat, and he frowned slightly.

“When will it take effect?”

Xue Sui: “I don’t know.”

Li Zhao felt something strange in his heart and grabbed her hand, his hoarse voice trembling slightly.

"What did you feed me?"

Xue Sui smiled slightly: "Guess?"

I'm not feeling well today, so I've finished updating. There's still one chapter left, which I'll write this afternoon. You can read it during dinner...

Thank you for your understanding! Love you guys.