On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 799: Demand Respect, Not Just Presence
Ye Yiheng suddenly felt a pang in his heart, clenched his fist, and beat his chest, but the pain did not dissipate.
Seeing his condition, Song Guo hurriedly advised, "Your Highness, you must not do this while you’re still injured!"
Ye Yiheng could not understand why there was a dull pain in his heart; even when the dagger pierced his chest, he had not felt this way.
The pain was unbearable; he got up and left the study.
Just then, the gatekeeper hurried in with a middle-aged man.
"Your Highness, this man is a coachman from the Prince Zhenbei Mansion. When the Crown Princess Consort and the Ninth Princess left the Eastern Palace, it was his horse carriage they took."
Hearing the gatekeeper’s words, Ye Yiheng shifted his gaze onto the coachman.
The coachman stepped forward and bowed, "I have seen Your Highness, Crown Prince!"
Song Guo asked, "Why are you here in the Eastern Palace instead of waiting for the Crown Princess Consort and Ninth Princess outside?"
The coachman answered uneasily, "It’s time for lunch now, but the Crown Princess Consort and Ninth Princess have not left the tea house. I went there and saw guards at the door of the private room. Those guards were neither from the Eastern Palace nor from our Prince Mansion. Thinking that the Princely Heir and the Second Young Master are currently in the barracks, I had no choice but to come and report to the Crown Prince."
Ye Yiheng’s face darkened abruptly, "Someone!"
"Your Highness!" Mo Chen Ruo Feng appeared at the call.
"Follow me to the tea house," commanded Ye Yiheng, striding out.
Mo Chen Ruo Feng quickly followed him.
Song Guo grabbed the still dazed coachman, "Aren’t you going to lead the way?"
"Yes, yes, yes."
The coachman nodded repeatedly, bowing and scampering ahead.
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In the separate quarters.
An old maid brought clean clothes and a menstruation bag into the room.
Ji Qingyu commanded Miao Zhu in a cold voice, "Help your Commandery Princess change!"
Miao Zhu sneered, "The title of Commandery Princess can only be used by those of us who serve by her side. The Commandery Prince should stay in his lane and refer to the Crown Princess Consort as Your Highness! If you really do not wish, referring to her as Princess is also acceptable, but you are not entitled to call the Commandery Princess ’Ah Yan’!"
Ji Qingyu scoffed coldly, "Are you reminding me that she is the blind Crown Princess Consort, and also the Princess of Nandian? In my eyes, she is merely Princess Beilan right now! Now change her clothes and whatever that thing is!"
Upon hearing this, Leng Yu Yan recalled the moment Ye Yiheng had fetched her menstruation bag.
Looking back, those times she spent with him were truly tender.
Li Yu, why haven’t you appeared yet? I’m barely holding on.
At this moment, Miao Zhu said, "If that’s the case, I would ask you, Commandery Prince, to please leave!"
Ji Qingyu glanced ambiguously at the frail Leng Yu Yan leaning on the bed, but ultimately, he stepped out of the room.
Miao Zhu closed the door, leaned over the bed, and gently grabbed Leng Yu Yan’s hand, whispering, "Commandery Princess, let this servant help you change."
Leng Yu Yan, with her eyes half-closed, slowly shook her head, "I won’t wear his clothes, nor use the menstruation bag he provided."
"The Crown Prince and the Princely Heir, knowing you feel this way, would feel terrible."
Miao Zhu burst into tears, pulled out a handkerchief, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
Leng Yu Yan, weakly said, "Miao Zhu, I don’t know how much longer I can hold on. I have been drugged with an aphrodisiac, and without the antidote, my life is in peril. If I don’t make it, tell him that I have done nothing to wrong him."
If she were to die because of this, her wish from a previous life to bear that child would also come to naught.
Miao Zhu wept uncontrollably and hissed angrily, "The beast, how could he administer an aphrodisiac to the Commandery Princess? Having menstruation, isn’t this just murderous?"
Right then, a knock at the door sounded, and before anyone inside could respond, the door was pushed open.
It was another old maid bringing in food.
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Another side.
Ye Yiheng and his group arrived at the teahouse, where Mo Chen Ruo Feng took control of the teahouse guards.
Ruo Feng kicked open the door of the private room, only to see the Ninth Princess sprawled on the table and Lian Yan fainted on the floor, with no sign of the Crown Princess Consort or Miao Zhu.
Ye Yiheng looked at the mess inside the room and coldly commanded, "Interrogate them right here."
Mo Chen Ruo Feng pinned the guards to the ground, "Speak, who instructed you, whose men are you?"
Unexpectedly, these so-called guards tried to bite off their tongues to commit suicide, but Mo Chen Ruo Feng quickly dislocated their jaws.
Ye Yiheng glanced at the leftover pastries and tea on the table, swept his gaze, and coolly spit out two words, "Search them."
Following the order, Mo Chen Ruo Feng led the Eastern Palace Dark Guards to meticulously search the guards but found no badges to prove their identities.
Ye Yiheng raised an eyebrow, "Always rushing to bite your tongues, whose Death Soldiers are you?"
Recognizing their identity as Death Soldiers struck fear into the guards as they exchanged glances, seeing the terror in each other’s eyes.
One of them said, "You could kill us, but we still won’t talk!"
Ye Yiheng expressionlessly said, "Shall we try?"
While speaking, he lazily pointed a finger.
Mo Chen, understanding the gesture, pulled out his dagger and brutally stabbed it into the head of the guard who had just spoken, ripping downward forcefully, tearing the scalp open instantly.
Screams of agony immediately followed.
The guard only felt a chilling sensation at the back of his head as his blood gushed out, his fear reaching an extreme.
The other guards nearby were terrified out of their wits.
The newcomer was extraordinarily handsome, with a strong presence and a chilling air, clearly indicating whom they were up against.
Then, Ye Yiheng indifferently said, "This method is the first step in making a human skin lantern. You oppose me, you should know the consequences!"
The guards began to weigh their options, having failed their duty, they faced certain death at Prince Qing’s hands and here as well.
Which death would be less painful?
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An hour later, Ji Qingyu walked into the room and saw clothes and a menstruation bag piled at the foot of the bed, the meals untouched, and immediately questioned Miao Zhu, "How are you serving the people?"
Miao Zhu angrily said, "Does the Commandery Prince want the Crown Princess Consort’s life?"
Ji Qingyu scoffed, "How could I possibly want her life?"
He wanted her person and also her heart.
He had never thought about taking her life.
Miao Zhu clenched her fists, trembling, "Since you don’t want the Crown Princess Consort’s life, please produce the antidote for the aphrodisiac! The Crown Princess Consort has been affected by the aphrodisiac, and if not treated promptly, her life is at risk."
Hearing this, Ji Qingyu furrowed his brow, his voice unintentionally filled with concern, "It’s true that Ah Yan has been affected by an aphrodisiac, but I didn’t realize it was this severe."
With that, he left the room.
Seeing Qing Ge slowly enter into another courtyard, he hurriedly demanded, "Give me the antidote for the aphrodisiac immediately!"
Qing Ge covered her mouth with a smile and countered, "Does the Commandery Prince not know that for aphrodisiacs of our kind, the antidote is a man?"
Ji Qingyu’s face darkened with anger, "I am talking about the antidote!"
"I truly have no drug that counteracts the aphrodisiac," Qing Ge said honestly, "The Commandery Prince himself is the antidote. Don’t you want her?"
Ji Qingyu replied, "Leave now, I do not wish to see you today!"
Qing Ge covered her face, pretending to cry, her voice sorrowful, "Then Qing Ge wishes the Commandery Prince and the Crown Princess Consort much love and a long life together!"
Hearing the words "Crown Princess Consort" again, Ji Qingyu, infuriated, flung his sleeve, "Now get out!"
Qing Ge walked a few steps toward the courtyard door, then turned back.
"I forgot to mention, the aphrodisiac will be fatal if not counteracted within three hours. It has been two and a half hours since I administered the drug." Qing Ge smiled, "Commandery Prince, you better hurry, you only have half an hour left."
