12 - Regrets

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Two days had passed since the incident at the banquet. Prince Yang Lijun is also getting much better. Even the scars on his face and body are barely visible.

Xiu Ying prepared an ointment made from aloe vera and some paste made from green tea which greatly helped to fade the scars. Every day, Xiu Ying will come and visit Prince Yang to check on his condition, but he's never alone.

When Wu Zhang Wei heard the news that Xiu Ying went to visit Prince Yang, alone, it ticks him off. Xiu Ying was immediately reprimanded by him to not go and visit Prince Yang again, not without his company.

"But you're busy Your Majesty. I won't disturb you just for a short visit," said Xiu nonchalantly.

"No means no! Zhen said never to meet him alone. Is that so hard for you to understand?!"

"Then, what if Your Majesty is in the meeting? Should I call you too?"

"Choose a time when Zhen is not in the meeting."

"But I usually visit him once in the morning and once in the evening. Every day in the morning, Your Majesty must attend the morning court. Then, Your Majesty won't even have time in the evening as that is Your Majesty's consultation time with my father. So...."

Wu Zhang Wei's eyes twitched. 'He's doing it on purpose isn't he?'

"Then go after the morning court and before my consultation time. You got such a long time for a day, just choose other than that two times. End of discussion!" Wu Zhang Wei raises his voice.

'What a grumpy guy!'

Unaffected by the furious emperor, Xiu Ying rolls his eyes. "Fine."

Due to that, Xiu Ying had to drag along the emperor whenever he's going to visit Prince Yang. The latter also beams when he saw his savior. Totally ignoring the emperor's presence, Prince Yang happily talked with Xiu Ying.

Right now, Xiu Ying is visiting Prince Yang for the second time today. He can't do any check-up on Prince Yang as someone forbids him. He can only watch from aside when the physician did it.

"Your Highness, may I ask, did this kind of thing happen to you before?" Xiu Ying asked.

"Yes. Well, I don't know what caused this and even the physician couldn't find the causes. Whenever it happened, I just laid on my bed for days, waiting for the pain to subside." Prince Yang rubs his nape, feeling even the physicians in his country are useless. Can't even compare to Concubine Li.

"Then, did you remember what did you ate that made you like this? Maybe there are similar ingredients in every meal that you took that causes this."

Prince Yang rubbed his chin, thinking of the meals that he ate before.

"Well...usually this happened whenever I ate sour soup. So since that, I avoid eating any sour soup."

Xiu Ying squints his eyes. 'Sour...soup? But at the banquet, there's no sour soup. Mostly dried dish. The only soups are the oxtail soup and shark's fin soup. But both of them are not sour....wait. The shark's fin soup is served with vinegar! If it's vinegar then he must be suffered from vinegar allergy.'

"Concubine Li? Did you know anything?" Prince Yang asked when he saw Xiu Ying's eyes widen.

"Prince Yang...forgive me if I'm wrong but I think Your Highness is sensitive to vinegar. That's my assumption because Your Highness said it occurred whenever Your Highness ate sour soup but at the banquet, there are no sour meals except the shark's fin soup that was served together with vinegar. So, that's what makes me think Your Highness is sensitive towards vinegar."

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