In the Prince’s Mansion, Long Junhao asked anxiously, “Doctor Cheng, didn’t you say Lan’er would wake up in a couple of days? It’s been three days now. Why hasn’t she woken up?” His heart trembled. Lan’er, you must be okay!
Doctor Cheng checked her pulse again, but there was still no movement. What had gone wrong? He had carefully reviewed the prescription, certain there could be no mistake. Cold sweat streamed down his face.
“Your Highness, you should keep talking to the Princess Consort to try to call her soul back.”
I’m going to Hongfa Temple to find Master Kongling for a solution.” Doctor Cheng wiped the sweat from his face, turned back to instruct Long Junhao, and hurriedly left for Hongfa Temple on Lishan Mountain.
Lan Lan felt exhausted. She wanted to go home and sleep. As she thought this, her focus faded, and she gradually drifted into unconsciousness.
[Text: Chapter Fifty-Seven Returning Soul]
At the street corner next to Rui Prince’s Mansion, a man had been standing for several days. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and thin gauze obscuring his face, his features were indiscernible. He emanated a desolate atmosphere, waiting for someone. Only upon seeing a familiar elderly man enter the gate did he breathe a sigh of relief and leave.
Long Junhao kept a sleepless vigil by Lan Lan’s bed, calling her name. In just a few days, he had lost weight, his face covered in stubble, looking haggard and gray. His mind held only one thought: Lan Lan would definitely return.
Master Kongling had visited and left one sentence: “Success depends on humans, planning depends on heaven.”
Now on the fourth day, everyone had cried until their tears were dry.
They didn’t understand why the Prince insisted that the Princess Consort was not dead. Her body had been cold for days and should have been buried. Staying past seven days was considered extremely inauspicious, with vengeful spirits likely to linger. Yet, the Prince remained by the Princess Consort’s bedside, neither eating nor drinking.
The Emperor and Empress had instructed the Prince to accept his grief and take both children into the palace for care.
