Keep your voice down. Are you trying to look glamorous dressed as a forced lover?

Ji Mingzheng quickly noticed something was wrong; Li Qingyan was limp and her complexion was off.

"I can't move."

She managed to utter three words, but suddenly she lost all her strength. Her limbs went weak, and even her mouth and eyes could barely move.

Unexpected events struck again, without warning, completely unpredictable, and without any pattern.

Li Qingyan tried her best, but she couldn't move a single finger. She was completely useless. The unknown and uncontrollable control occupied her mind for a time.

"Don't be afraid, Your Highness, the imperial physician will be here soon."

Seeing her expression, Ji Mingzheng instantly recalled the confusion and fear he felt when he could no longer move his legs. He grabbed her hand and gently comforted her.

But when the imperial physician arrived, he couldn't diagnose anything for the time being.

Li Qingyan was not surprised; as expected, the real second hurdle had arrived.

The imperial physicians were changed, but they were still helpless. Li Qingyan looked at Ji Mingzheng and spoke with difficulty: "Sang."

"Your Highness, do you mean to find Consort Sang?"

Ji Mingzheng asked, and Li Qingyan blinked.

"Alright, go and invite Consort Sang."

He drew his bow and led his men to invite Sangnuoye outside Fengyun Pavilion.

Sannoye arrived quickly, and after just one glance, he suddenly understood.

"Has Consort Sang noticed something amiss with His Highness?"

Ji Mingzheng immediately asked, and Li Qingyan saw hope in his expression.

"Let me confirm." Sannoye took out a box from his sleeve. He was about to open it when he suddenly covered Li Qingyan's eyes.

She was afraid of poisonous snakes and didn't even want to bite his hand, so she wouldn't show him the Gu worm either, lest he refuse to kiss her again in the future.

Sannoye tested the Gu worm and his guess was confirmed, causing his expression to darken slightly.

"It's a bloodworm."

Sannoye carefully put away the Gu worms, not missing the panicked change in expression of the person drawing the bow beside him.

Ji Mingzheng also noticed: "Those bloodworms that can bring the dead back to life?"

Sannoye nodded and said to Li Qingyan, "Bloodworms are also a type of Gu worm. For people who have lost too much blood, as long as they are placed on the wound, they can bring them back to life. On the battlefield, they are also known as life-saving worms. They have saved the founding generals several times."

"But bloodworms are little known because the production process is extremely cruel, involving a life for a life, and it is not promoted."

Ji Mingzheng looked at Li Qingyan, his face grim: "A life for a life?"

"Yes, the bloodworm larvae are colorless and transparent. Once inside the body, they can instantly paralyze a person, rendering them unable to move. For the first two hours after entering the body, they remain under the skin, but after two hours they will slowly burrow into the blood vessels, and within three hours they can drain a person's blood completely."

"When the transparent turns blood red, it means that the bloodworm has been formed, and this is the only way to raise bloodworms."

Sannoye glanced at Yin Gong, who suddenly knelt down, his face pale: "The blood worms were raised by me. I never intended to harm Your Highness, nor did I take any action. I don't know why the blood worms ended up on Your Highness."

Ji Mingzheng's guess was confirmed: "You're not going to the battlefield anymore, so why are you still raising such an evil creature? Even if you were going to the battlefield, it would be a life for a life."

Yin Gong smiled bitterly: "I know, but I only thought that if absolutely necessary, I would exchange my life for the general's."

"The general encountered danger before, and I was powerless to help. That feeling was so desperate that I thought I should be on the safe side. I also told my people who were in charge of Gu worms that we could try using the blood of other precious animals, so I kept it."

"But I had kept it carefully in the jade bottle all along, and I haven't opened it today. It's impossible for it to have harmed Your Highness. I don't know why it suddenly entered Your Highness's body."

He wouldn't even consider making such a mistake.

Ji Mingzheng's expression became extremely complicated: "Go out and kneel down."

He didn't mention any punishment or not; that was something to be considered after Li Qingyan survived. If Li Qingyan died, he would die too, and Yin Gong would have no chance of surviving.

He suppressed the panic rising within him: "Does Consort Sang know how to save him? The blood worms have entered His Highness's body, and an hour has already passed. Now there is only one hour left."

Once bloodworms enter the blood vessels, there is no hope of recovery; the blood vessels are spread throughout the body, leaving no trace.

As Ji Mingzheng calculated the time, he felt his vision blurring.

Fortunately, Sannoh nodded.

"have."

Li Qingyan and Ji Mingzheng, who had been listening, breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great, please help us, Consort Sang. This time it was my subordinate who caused the trouble. Please feel free to make any requests, Consort Sang."

Sang Cejun glanced at Ji Mingzheng with a puzzled look: "Why should I make demands when I'm saving my wife?"

Ji Mingzheng apologized without hesitation: "I misspoke. Please, Consort Sang, save His Highness first. What should we prepare? How should we proceed with the rescue?"

"Just find it, prepare some strong liquor, and you can all leave."

"Okay." Ji Mingzheng immediately gave the order: "Does Consort Sang know its location? Do we need to cut open the skin?"

"I don't know. It's good at hiding and could be anywhere under the skin. I need to press and touch it gradually to find it based on any unusual sensations."

Ji Mingzheng breathed a sigh of relief. Sang Cejun's attitude was relatively relaxed, so he must be confident.

"Then please, Lord Sang, search for it quickly."

Sannoye nodded, but watched him remain still.

"Kangbei-kun?"

Ji Mingzheng was puzzled.

However, Li Qingyan, who was a Minion, had already realized that Sannoh's words, though simple, were actually full of color.

Gradually, press, touch, or all? What does all mean?

whole body.

He wants...

She's ticklish and sensitive, so this kind of touching...

Because Sannoh’s tone was so natural and his attitude so matter-of-fact, the simple-minded Ji Mingzheng didn’t react.

"General Ji, it would be best if you went outside to wait."

Sannoye paused, then said, "Perhaps I can carry His Highness to Fengyun Pavilion."

Ji Mingzheng quickly replied, "No need, I'll go out now."

Once outside, as he heard the door close, Ji Mingzheng belatedly realized why he had to avoid it.

Guessing what was about to happen, his face stiffened.

Li Qingyan's expression also stiffened. Firstly, the blood worms were truly frightening, and secondly, she was basically certain that this should be the second hurdle.

The first life-threatening crisis was averted because of Sannoh's kiss.

As she expected, the second crisis, the second hurdle, was upgraded, changing from a simple kiss to touching.

And it's almost the entire body.

She was weak and unable to move, so she lied to him, saying she wanted to confirm with touch and pressure that she was a human being and couldn't possibly be unresponsive.

Perhaps the ultimate goal of the challenge is her reaction.

Compared to Li Qingyan's stiffness, Sannoye's attitude was much calmer and more composed.

After washing his hands, and then washing them with strong liquor, Sannoye's eyes showed doubt: "I don't know why it dared to crawl into your body. We are clearly intertwined, and you already have my blood in your body."

Li Qingyan thought that it was probably just bad luck; there was no point in saying anything in the face of the power of the plot.

Moreover, is it possible that the phrase "blood and milk intertwining" might have another meaning?

They need to become completely integrated to completely stop it.

Sannoye knew that Li Qingyan had difficulty speaking, so she didn't expect her to answer, her eyes even showing a hint of eagerness.

Although he was disgusted by Qiu Nanxing and the others, he was able to achieve his goal of touching everything and observing her reaction, which he had wanted to do before.

"Your Highness, would you like to start from the head, or from the feet?"

Sannoye gave Li Qingyan a choice.