Qin Yu shook his head, his dry lips pressed together. "No need. This King's… Consort isn't going to die yet."
Looking at Qin Yu's excessively pale face and then at the large patch of red on the bedsheet, Granny Zhang suddenly thought of something and quickly asked, "Consort, could it be that you're on your period? Read books."
Qin Yu heard this, looking completely bewildered, "...What is a period?!"
Mi Ling frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"
Qin Yu glared fiercely at Mi Ling, remaining silent, too ashamed to speak.
Seeing his demeanor, Mi Ling thought of something, his lips twitching. He asked no further questions.
When Qin Yu saw what Mi Ling was looking at, his expression instantly changed, his face turning cold. "Who allowed you to touch my things!"
Mi Ling replied indifferently, "Your little guard, Lan Yi."
Qin Yu: "... "
"Alright, go into the palace to pay your respects to your mother first."
Qin Yu: "... "
...
Carriages were prohibited from entering the palace, so the carriage from Prince Yu's manor stopped at the palace gates.
Mi Ling and Qin Yu alighted from the carriage and walked into the palace.
After only a few steps, Qin Yu heard a deep, magnetic voice beside him say, "Your imperial brother from your palace visited last night and even entered our bridal chamber."
Qin Yu frowned upon hearing this, subconsciously asking, "Why did he come?"
Mi Ling suddenly chuckled lightly and uttered two simple, direct words, "To sleep with you."
Qin Yu: "... "
Qin Yu choked, the "川" character between his brows deepening. "Wasn't this marriage bestowed by my imperial brother?"
Mi Ling nodded and began to fabricate. "Oh, he was deeply captivated by my beauty and wanted to force me to be his concubine. I refused, and in his rage, he bestowed the marriage."
Qin Yu looked at Mi Ling with a mixture of belief and doubt, saying no more.
The two proceeded in silence.
As they neared the Empress Dowager's sleeping quarters, Mi Ling finally spoke up, reminding him, "Be careful of that imperial brother of yours. Who knows when he might accidentally get drugged and sent to his bed."
Qin Yu frowned, subconsciously saying, "Impossible! My imperial brother wouldn't be that kind of person! How could he possibly make a move on his own sibling's spouse?!"
Furthermore, Qin Yu suspected that what Mi Ling had just said was false, and that his imperial brother hadn't come at all last night.
Mi Ling casually tilted his head and said, "Since you don't believe me, let's wait and see."
Given Qin Zhanhan's usual behavior, if he couldn't get the heroine, he wouldn't give up. Therefore, Mi Ling thought that as soon as Qin Zhanhan recovered, he would make his move.
...
Meanwhile, in the Imperial Study.
Qin Zhanhan, who was in the midst of reviewing memorials, stopped his brush. His eyes, dark and unreadable, listened to the report from the kneeling hidden guard in the Imperial Study.
"Master, Prince Yu and Princess Yu have entered the palace to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager."
*Crack*. The sound of something breaking.
Qin Zhanhan coldly snapped the brush in his hand. Discarding the broken brush, Qin Zhanhan stopped looking at his memorials, stood up, and went to the Harem.
It went without saying where he was going.