The prince longs for me every night after mastering thought-reading
Chapter 176 - 175: Want an Explanation

Chapter 176: Chapter 175: Want an Explanation

Shen Chuwei sighed, "Your Highness must think he has been cuckolded by now and is probably fuming."

No matter who it happened to, they would be angry.

Especially since Xiao Jinyan is the Crown Prince, the future sovereign. The fact that his own little wife might be cheating on him would be reason enough to beat her to death, so it’s already a stroke of luck that he hasn’t done so.

Chun Xi looked at Shen Chuwei with a scared face, "Young Mistress, what should we do?"

Shen Chuwei touched her belly and said, "Is dinner ready? Let’s eat first."

"..." Chun Xi said, "Young Mistress, with such a disaster looming, you’re still thinking about eating?"

Shen Chuwei replied righteously, "After I’ve eaten, I’ll have the strength to think of a solution, won’t I?"

"...Alright then." Chun Xi went to prepare the evening meal.

After Shen Chuwei had eaten her fill and drunk to her heart’s content, she started to feel sleepy again.

Once Chun Xi had tidied up, she asked eagerly, "Young Mistress, have you thought of a plan yet?"

Shen Chuwei yawned and said, "Not yet."

Chun Xi, propping up her chin with her hands, said, "Then I will think of a solution with you."

After a period of time passed

"Young Mistress, have you come up with any solution yet? We should go now..."

Chun Xi turned her head to look at Shen Chuwei and found her with her eyes tightly closed, fast asleep...

She sighed, At a time like this, you still have the peace of mind to sleep?

Just back at the Imperial Medical Bureau, the Imperial Doctor Wen hadn’t even warmed his seat when Xiao Jinyan summoned him.

At this moment, in the study room, it was so quiet that one could hear the slight crackling and popping of candle flames.

The Imperial Doctor Wen stepped forward and bowed, "Your Highness summoned me, what are your orders?"

Xiao Jinyan lifted his eyes to look at the Imperial Doctor Wen and asked in a deep voice, "Could you have misdiagnosed Lady Shen’s pulse?"

The Imperial Doctor Wen bowed even lower, his tone firm, "Your Highness, I can stake my life on it, there was absolutely no misdiagnosis. Lady Shen’s pulse indeed showed joy, and it has been over a month."

Over a month, that would be the days when he was away from the Imperial Palace.

Xiao Jinyan gripped the pen in his hand so tightly that it snapped under the strain.

The Imperial Doctor Wen was startled and bowed his head, not daring to make a sound.

Xiao Jinyan was silent for a while, then continued to ask, "What’s the reason for her excessive sleepiness these days?"

The Imperial Doctor Wen replied, "Your Highness, it’s common for pregnant women to be prone to sleepiness."

Xiao Jinyan asked again, "Could there be other reasons?"

The Imperial Doctor Wen said, "According to the pulse, there are no other reasons."

Xiao Jinyan paused and then coldly uttered four words, "You may leave now."

He then instructed, "Do not tell anyone about this."

"Understood."

After the Imperial Doctor Wen left, Xiao Jinyan looked down at the painting on the desk, the one that Shen Chuwei had drawn that night.

In the drawing, the girl sat on a chair holding a watermelon in one hand and melon seeds in the other, finding joy in eating, indifferent to power and influence.

How could she have possibly done such a thing?

At that moment, Liu Xi came in to report, "Your Highness, Chun Xi from the Xiyun Pavilion requests an audience."

Xiao Jinyan said, "Let her in."

After Liu Xi left, it wasn’t long before Chun Xi came in, her head low. She knelt on the floor with a thud and cried out.

"Your Highness, the young mistress has passed out again. I tried to wake her, but no matter how I called, she would not awaken."

Xiao Jinyan ordered, "Liu Xi, call Imperial Doctor Wen back here."

When the group arrived back at the Xiyun Pavilion, it was as Chun Xi had said: Shen Chuwei had once again fallen into a deep sleep.

Xiao Jinyan commanded, "Imperial Doctor Wen, quickly check on her."

"At your command." The Imperial Doctor Wen stepped forward to take her pulse again, his brow furrowing.

Xiao Jinyan asked urgently, "How is she?"

The Imperial Doctor Wen shook his head, "Your Highness, there are no other symptoms."

Xiao Jinyan asked again, "Then why won’t she wake up?"

Chun Xi, wiping tears from her eyes, said anxiously, "Imperial Doctor, my young mistress has been extremely sleepy these past few days, increasingly so in the last two days, making it very hard to awaken her. This time it’s even worse; she won’t wake up at all."

The Imperial Doctor Wen said, "According to the pulse, there indeed are no other symptoms."

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Is there a way to awaken her?"

"I’ll try." The Imperial Doctor Wen took out some silver needles and tried a few specific points.

Slowly, Shen Chuwei opened her eyes and looked around at the room full of people, looking puzzled.

Chun Xi exclaimed with delight, "Young Mistress, you’re finally awake. You’ve scared me to death."

Xiao Jinyan coldly ordered, "Everyone, leave us."

"Understood."

Chun Xi and the Imperial Doctor Wen both left one after another.

Shen Chuwei had just woken up but was still struggling with intense drowsiness. With Xiao Jinyan there, she forced herself not to close her eyes again.

Xiao Jinyan stared at Shen Chuwei for a while, then spoke deliberately, "I want an explanation. Tell me the truth, and even if you have erred, in consideration of your past sacrifice to save my life, I will be lenient."

Shen Chuwei looked back at Xiao Jinyan with her clear, innocent eyes, a trace of dissatisfaction in her voice, "Your Highness, how could you not know whether I am pregnant?"

Xiao Jinyan paused, "Imperial Doctor Wen’s medical skills are the best in the Imperial Medical Bureau, and I have asked him; he has not misdiagnosed."

His implication was clear: where, then, had this joyful pulse come from?

Shen Chuwei said, "I have never questioned Imperial Doctor Wen’s medical skills, and though he has diagnosed a joyous pulse, it does not necessarily mean I am with child. There can be false joyous pulses. Besides, I can also take my own pulse; a joyous pulse is the simplest to diagnose, even I can do it."

False joyous pulse?

It was as if he had suddenly woken from a dream. Xiao Jinyan quickly asked, "Are you saying someone is deliberately framing you?"

Shen Chuwei replied, "There’s a drug that can cause a false joyous pulse, but I haven’t taken such a drug. It must be some other method."

Xiao Jinyan asked further, "What method?"

Shen Chuwei shook her head, "I do not know."

After speaking, she yawned, her eyelids heavy as if they weighed a thousand catties, tempting her to close them and sleep.

Xiao Jinyan sat down on the bed and watched her spiritless demeanor, thinking anyone would assume she was seriously ill.

"What happened to you just now?"

"I am so sleepy, and this excessive sleepiness is highly abnormal," said Shen Chuwei, who knew that she was neither poisoned nor ill, yet couldn’t understand why she was so sleepy.

"Of course it’s abnormal. Who would sleep so deeply?"

After Xiao Jinyan finished speaking, he called the Imperial Doctor Wen back again, "Examine her again, she does not have a joyous pulse and her sleepiness is very serious."

The Imperial Doctor Wen examined Shen Chuwei once more, and the diagnosis remained the same, "There are no other symptoms, and it is uncertain what is causing the excessive sleepiness."

Imperial Doctor Wen maintained the diagnosis of a joyous pulse, but from the level of sleepiness just now, it didn’t seem like a symptom of pregnancy."

Xiao Jinyan, still not reassured, made the doctor check her over and over again, but the result was still that there were no other ailments.

At this time, Shen Chuwei once again fell into a deep sleep, the kind that she couldn’t be woken from no matter how much she was called.

The Imperial Doctor Wen also found it strange but was at a loss for what to do.

Liu Xi stepped forward to remind, "Your Highness, could it be the work of witchcraft or a Poisonous Insect?"

The practice of witchcraft or sorcery is taboo in the palace, and discovery of its use meant a death sentence.

Despite this, there were still people in the palace who secretly used such methods to harm others.