Tearing the Prince's Clothes after Withdrawing Marriage
Chapter 389 - 388: Anyone Who Approaches You Meets a Bad End

Chapter 389: Chapter 388: Anyone Who Approaches You Meets a Bad End

The sky seemed to have just brightened not long ago.

Outside, a noisy commotion erupted.

A group of people were greeting some important figure.

Chu Qianli, still groggy, fluttered her eyelids, and the noise gradually seeped into her ears.

"We pay our respects to the Emperor, and to the Empress Dowager..."

Her eyes snapped open!

The Emperor and the Empress Dowager had arrived!

The news of Prince Yexuan’s grave illness had indeed reached the palace.

"Princess, Princess!"

Leng Ji was knocking at the door.

Without waiting for her response, he had already barged in: "Princess, the Emperor and Empress Dowager are here, I’ll go to welcome their arrival right away!"

"You get ready."

Chu Qianli rubbed her eyes.

She had no idea what she needed to prepare.

But she understood what Leng Ji meant.

The Emperor and the Empress Dowager were bound to make things difficult for her.

Therefore, she needed to get ready to face these challenges.

Leng Ji left the room, going out to meet the Emperor and the Empress Dowager.

Originally, Leng Ji had wanted to delay a bit, to give Chu Qianli some more time to "prepare".

However, the Emperor and the Empress Dowager were frantic with urgency and wouldn’t allow any dawdling, quickening their pace toward her location.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, the Prince is resting..."

"Get out of the way!" the Emperor said as he kicked out.

Leng Ji dared not evade and could only endure the kick head-on.

Eunuch Qing ordered the doors to be opened as the Emperor strode in, with Jin’s old wet nurse behind him, supporting the Empress Dowager as she entered.

"Xuanxuan!" Upon seeing Feng Yexuan lying on the sickbed, the Empress Dowager’s eyes reddened in an instant.

"Where is Liujin? Where is Liujin?"

"Liujin!" The Emperor was also furious, especially upon seeing that only Chu Qianli was by Feng Yexuan’s bedside—it enraged him to the point he wanted to chop someone!

"Bring that good-for-nothing Liujin to Us, We’ll have his head!"

Liujin was the finest Doctor in the Prince Residence, having been by Feng Yexuan’s side for many years.

Now with Prince Yexuan critically ill, the Doctor was not in the room attending to him, leaving the Prince to be looked after by a mere girl.

Had he lost his mind?

Even if all signs indicated that Chu Qianli’s medical skills were indeed remarkable, the Emperor was not satisfied, not in the least!

At that moment, the Emperor shook with rage.

Eunuch Qing hurriedly said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please calm your anger. Your Majesty, your dragon health is the priority, please do not get angry."

The Emperor’s health was not at all well, and after being angered to the point of vomiting blood by Prince Yexuan a few days earlier, he had not attended court and had been lying in bed to rest.

Only when he learned of the Prince’s critical illness, still unconscious up to now, did he barely manage to rise from his bed.

In fact, the Emperor truly cared about the Prince.

It’s just that the Prince would infuriate the Emperor time and again for a woman’s sake, and the Emperor’s feelings toward the Prince were a mix of love and hate!

All blame lay with Chu Qianli.

"We pay our respects to the Emperor, and to the Empress Dowager," Chu Qianli took a step forward, leaned slightly, and paid her respects.

This time, she was very polite.

Having decided to face the Imperial Family’s pressure together with Feng Yexuan, unless necessary, she would no longer be as defiant in front of the Emperor and Empress Dowager.

Though she had never thought of herself as defiant before.

But toning down her spirit a bit could also be considered out of consideration for Feng Yexuan.

The Emperor was taken aback for a moment, sensing for the first time that the accursed girl harbored much less of the resentment she used to have towards him.

Even the Empress Dowager noticed that Chu Qianli seemed to treat them with much more respect than before.

She no longer had that insolent sharpness in her eyes as she once had.

But she was preoccupied with Feng Yexuan’s injuries, barely paying attention to these things!

"Greetings to Your Majesty, greetings to the Empress Dowager!" Liujin hurriedly arrived, busily bowing and saying, "Your Majesty..."

"Prince Yexuan is critically injured, where the hell have you been?" The Emperor almost wished he could twist his head off!

Liujin hastily replied, "Princess Pingyue woke up not long ago, and I went to check on her. As for Prince Yexuan’s side, because Miss Chu was here, so..."

"So you just handed over the life of your prince to a stranger!" the Emperor exclaimed in anger.

Liujin hung his head low and responded softly, "Prince Yexuan’s injuries are extremely serious..."

He had intended to say that if it weren’t for Chu Qianli’s help, the prince might very well have faced more bad luck than good.

But before he could finish, the Empress Dowager immediately burst into tears, "My Xuanxuan oh!"

The Empress Dowager threw herself over, grabbing Feng Yexuan’s hand as her voice suddenly became hoarse.

"Xuanxuan, Xuanxuan... How on earth did he get so injured? Speak! How could he have ended up like this?"

The Empress Dowager turned around and glared at Liujin, "What exactly happened?"

"It’s said that it was to save a maid," Eunuch Qing stealthily glanced at Feng Yexuan on the sickbed.

Helpless, he could only relay what he knew, "To save that maid, he leaped off a cliff and... ended up injured like this."

"A maid? How is that possible? How can it be?"

The trembling tips of the Empress Dowager’s fingers betrayed her urgency, "With such a noble status as my Xuanxuan, how could he disregard his own life for a maid? Who is she? Bring that maid to me quickly! I want to see with my own eyes what kind of maid is worth Xuanxuan going to such lengths for!"

She was both anxious and furious, itching to tear the maid to pieces in front of her.

Eunuch Qing found himself in a difficult position, just about to summon Fu Ning.

However, at that moment, Chu Qianli stepped forward, approached the Empress Dowager, and said softly, "The maid belongs to this humble woman."

"You again!"

It really was her!

Indeed, it was her again!

The Empress Dowager was wondering, how could a mere maid incite such impulsive behavior from Feng Yexuan!

Yet, it turned out to be related to Chu Qianli!

This woman was like a poison, completely maddening her Xuanxuan’s heart!

Merely a maid!

Just because she was her maid, he was willing to forsake his life?

To what extent had Xuanxuan gone mad for this woman?

He truly had gone completely insane!

The Emperor had already known what had happened before he arrived, and on the way there, in the carriage, he had been so enraged he nearly vomited blood several times.

Now, seeing Chu Qianli herself stepping forward only intensified his fury to the point of nearly fainting.

His health was poor, and the Imperial Physician had said that getting angry caused great damage to his body.

Eunuch Qing hurriedly soothed him, "Your Majesty, things have already come to this point. Let’s first check on Prince Yexuan’s injuries. We can discuss the other matters later, Your Majesty!"

The Emperor’s chest heaved with anger.

Chu Qianli did not wish to anger him, but she couldn’t let Fu Ning get dragged into this.

What if the Emperor, in his displeasure, ordered someone to beat Fu Ning to death? What then?

In the eyes of these Imperial Family members, the life of a maid was sometimes considered even less than that of an animal.

"Liujin!" Eunuch Qing called out.

Liujin hastily replied, "To Your Majesty, to the Empress Dowager, Prince Yexuan is gravely injured, but indeed, it was thanks to Miss Chu!"

"I am incompetent when faced with the prince’s injuries, and had no way to help. It was Miss Chu who personally treated the prince, tending to him day and night without rest for three days and nights. It was only then that the prince’s condition began to stabilize slightly."

"Slightly?" What does that mean?

The Empress Dowager, staring at Chu Qianli and sobbing with anger, said, "You are a curse, anyone who gets close to you suffers! How much longer will you continue to harm my Xuanxuan?"