After they left, Ning Wanwan quickly poured the medicine into the orchid pot on the high table by the bed, then returned to her reading.
Fu Yi made the bedding and stuffed two hot water bottles into the bed. Turning back, she noticed the soup bowl was empty. She furrowed her brow at how readily her miss drank the medicine but thought it was good.
“Miss, please rest early. The bed is warm.”
“Okay.” Ning Wanwan put down her book and lay down.
Fu Yi checked the bedding carefully before saying, “I’ll keep watch by the bed tonight. Miss, please rest assured.”
Ning Wanwan sighed, “The floor is cold. Go sleep in the warm bed in the side room.”
“It’s no trouble. I’m sturdy,” Fu Yi replied, then spread a blanket on the floor by the bed, extinguished the lamp, and went to sleep.
Ning Wanwan waited until it seemed Fu Yi was asleep.
She quietly kicked the hot water bottles to the corner of the bed and slowly moved her legs out of the blanket until her entire body was exposed.
Ning Wanwan had long believed that to get close to Xu Fengyu, she needed to make her illness appear very serious, ideally so severe that ordinary imperial physicians were helpless. Only then could she find an excuse to seek Xu Fengyu’s diagnosis.
Ning Wanwan did not wait for Doctor Liu to finish speaking. She slapped the diagnostic table and exclaimed, “What? Are you saying that I, the noble Princess of Yunxiang, cannot request Physician Xu to see me?”
The maid standing to the side was stunned. She rarely saw her young mistress angry and had never seen her lose her temper in front of others. Now, her anger revealed an imposing aura that made people involuntarily want to kneel before her.
Doctor Liu was clearly intimidated, lowering his head and finding her argument reasonable. After all, she was the fiancee of Si Yiming and might become the future empress. He dared not offend her, quickly standing up and gesturing, “Princess, please.”
The door to Physician Xu’s private room was covered with a yellow curtain.
Doctor Liu lifted the curtain and respectfully called inside, “Physician, the Princess has arrived.”
