After sending the doctor away, Yuan Bi returned, anxiously asking: “Master, why didn’t you let me kill that doctor? What if he’s discovered by the palace and leaks those words? It might bring disaster to you.”
Si Zhan did not answer but instead asked Yuan Bi, “Do you believe what he said?” Yuan Bi thought for a moment and replied, “I do not believe.”
Si Zhan, however, said, “I believe.” Upon hearing this, Yuan Bi was stunned.
Sihan looked at the pearl curtain, his gaze empty, as if seeing through to an unknown truth, and whispered, “But I don’t believe in him.” He believed in Ning Wanwan.
Sihan had a strange intuition that Ning Wanwan seemed to know something he didn’t, which was why her attitude towards him had changed.
Although he was unsure what Ning Wanwan knew, he believed she was helping him.
Since childhood, he had been told that he, Sihan, would not live past twenty-four. His father the emperor had issued an imperial decree to seek famous doctors for his treatment, but the results were always the same as the palace physicians’ diagnosis.
With his father planning out his entire future, Sihan had come to think of himself as a dying man. He never considered that his illness might be due to poisoning.
Looking at his pale left hand, he felt joy seep into his eyes. If it was indeed poisoning, then he had hope of survival.
Knowing he was short-lived, he had never dared to express his love for Ning Wanwan, silently protecting her in his heart. But now that he learned he might survive, he clenched his fingers into a fist, gazing ahead with unwavering determination.
Then he would never choose to silently watch her. He would fight to take Ning Wanwan back.
Yuan Bi frowned, not understanding, “If that’s the case, my lord should not have let him stay.”
Sihan curved his lips, revealing a cold smile, “My life has never needed to be exchanged for someone else’s.”
“My lord!” Yuan Bi became anxious, hoping Sihan would reconsider. He had followed his lord for eight years and knew that the situation allowed no carelessness.
The empress dowager had been probing his lord’s condition. Once the wandering doctor fell into her hands, she would likely believe what he said, whether true or false, and act against his lord.
