The Host in Quick Transmigration Always Wants to Break Her Character

Chapter 140 The Divine Physician and the Regent's Wife (2)

At this moment, only Huangfu Yaoyu and Nalan Zhimeng were inside the Empress Dowager's palace.

"Your Majesty, there is no possibility between us now. I hope Your Majesty will respect yourself."

Huangfu Yaoyu tried to hold Nalan Zhimeng's hand, but Nalan Zhimeng dodged him.

Nalan Zhimeng sat on the bed, turning her head away so that Huangfu Yaoyu could not see her expression.

“Zhi Meng…” Huangfu Yaoyu felt a little disappointed, but then he remembered his plan and pulled Nalan Zhi Meng’s shoulder to make her look at him.

Seeing Nalan Zhimeng's tears, Huangfu Yaoyu felt a pang of pain in his heart and pulled Nalan Zhimeng into his arms.

Huangfu Yaoyu pressed his lips to her ear and whispered, "Trust me, okay?"

Nalan Zhimeng felt a pang of sorrow: "You and Miss Xie..."

Upon hearing this, Huangfu Yaoyu excitedly made Nalan Zhimeng look at him.

"Zhimeng, I knew you still cared about me."

"What good will it do to care? You have a girl you like now, and I am your mother. It's impossible for us to be together anymore."

As she spoke, Nalan Zhimeng seemed to have made up her mind and tried to push Huangfu Yaoyu away, but she was poisoned and had no strength.

"Men and women should not touch each other. I hope the Regent will respect this." Seeing that she could not push the other person away, Nalan Zhimeng lowered her head and spoke with a slight sob in her voice.

Why did he abandon her, and now he's going to provoke her again...?

Wouldn't it be better to let her leave this world peacefully?

Nalan Zhi dreamed, and tears streamed down her face like a burst dam, uncontrollable.

Huangfu Yaoyu felt even more heartache, his brows furrowed, and he gently lifted her face with his hand.

With a serious expression, she said, "Zhimeng, please listen to me... I have no romantic feelings for Xie Yuan, and I only love you in this life..."

"Liar! Big liar!" Nalan Zhimeng said, pounding on Huangfu Yaoyu's solid chest with both hands before he could finish speaking.

"You promised to marry me and take me away... And then what? What I received was an imperial edict from your father, the Emperor, to carry me into the deep palace in a sedan chair!"

Nalan Zhimeng's tears fell like pearls from a broken string onto Huangfu Yaoyu's robes.

Huangfu Yaoyu felt his heart burning and aching from her tears.

I could only soften my tone.

“Zhimeng, believe me, I truly love you. There was a reason why I didn't come back then, it was because…”

"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager... Miss Xie has arrived." A palace maid's voice called from outside the door, interrupting Huangfu Yaoyu's words.

"Believe me, I have never let you down." As soon as he finished speaking, Huangfu Yaoyu left through a side door of the palace.

Nalan Zhimeng desperately wanted to know the reason behind Huangfu Yaoyu's actions, but having been interrupted, she could only compose herself, wipe away her tears, and calmly say towards the door:

"Please come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Jingyi was led inside by a palace maid.

The first thing that caught my eye was a woman who looked to be about eighteen years old. She was wearing a white undergarment, her face was bare of makeup, and her cheeks were pale, giving her a sickly beauty.

Her eyes were like water, but because she had just cried, they looked a little swollen, making her look even more pitiful.

Looking into those eyes, Lin Jingyi knew that Nalan Zhimeng had just been crying.

"Miss Xie...you must pay your respects to the Empress Dowager."

The palace maid beside him had already finished her greetings. Seeing that Lin Jingyi was staring intently at the Empress Dowager, she quietly pulled Lin Jingyi aside.

Lin Jingyi then came to her senses, clasped her hands together, and performed a traditional Jianghu salute: "This humble woman greets Your Majesty the Empress Dowager."

People in the martial arts world have no concept of submission to those in the imperial court.

"No need for formalities." Nalan Zhimeng knew the opinions of the martial arts world towards the imperial court, so she did not ask Lin Jingyi to kneel. She smiled and raised her left hand to indicate that Lin Jingyi should get up.

The palace maid who led Lin Jingyi there waited to the side.

"Your Majesty, in accordance with yesterday's diagnosis, I have come to administer acupuncture to you to slow the spread of the poison."

"In that case, thank you very much, Miss." Nalan Zhimeng nodded.

Having received permission, Lin Jingyi walked to Nalan Zhimeng's bedside. Just as he opened the needle case, he heard a palace maid report.

"Your Majesty, the Regent requests an audience."

Upon hearing who it was, Nalan Zhimeng's ears burned, and she said in a high-pitched voice:

"Let him in."

She hadn't expected Huangfu Yaoyu to return, and thinking about the explanation he wanted to give at the end, she became even more curious.

"Your son pays respects to the Queen Mother and pays his respects to her."

Huangfu Yaoyu greeted Nalan Zhimeng without kneeling, but only slightly bowed.

That's really interesting; they're practically making their intentions public now.

Seeing a man in his twenties calling a teenage girl "mother," Lin Jingyi found the scene rather strange.

"Get up, my son, you are very kind." Nalan Zhimeng forced a smile.

Seeing the palace maid beside him bow to Huangfu Yaoyu, Lin Jingyi stood still.

The original owner and Huangfu Yaoyu were currently... a couple who were mutually 'in love' and had pledged their lives to each other.

From the moment Huangfu Yaoyu entered, his eyes were fixed on Nalan Zhimeng. Nalan Zhimeng felt a little shy under his gaze and lowered her head.

Seeing the two interacting as if no one else was around, Lin Jingyi coughed lightly.

Their thoughts were brought back to the present.

Because Lin Jingyi and Nalan Zhimeng were standing close together, the palace maids next to them thought that the Regent was staring at Miss Xie. Miss Xie felt embarrassed and spoke up to remind him.

If it were Xie Yuan, she would have thought the same as the palace maid, which is why Xie Yuan never discovered the affair between the two until her death.

Only Nalan Zhimeng knew that Huangfu Yaoyu was looking at her.

"Yaoyu, I'm going to give the Empress Dowager acupuncture now." Lin Jingyi said to Huangfu Yaoyu in the original owner's tone, seeing that the two had come to their senses.

"Is there any danger to his life?" Huangfu Yaoyu was still somewhat worried. He dared not entrust the life of his beloved to someone he could not fully trust.

"Of course not," Lin Jingyi replied patiently.

"Call me if you need anything, I'll be waiting outside." Huangfu Yaoyu really wanted to stay in the palace, but he couldn't reveal his relationship with Zhimeng right now, so he had to settle for second best.

He gave Lin Jingyi some instructions.

Lin Jingyi nodded: "Go ahead, wasting even a quarter of an hour will shorten the Empress Dowager's lifespan."

As soon as Lin Jingyi finished speaking, Huangfu Yaoyu quickly went out, closing the door behind him.

"Is Your Majesty ready?" Lin Jingyi asked Nalan Zhimeng earnestly, holding a silver needle in his hand.

"Hmm." Because Lin Jingyi was brought by Huangfu Yaoyu, Nalan Zhimeng chose to trust him unconditionally, believing that Yaoyu would never harm her.

As she spoke, Nalan Zhimeng closed her eyes. The thought of Lin Jingyi being able to openly call Huangfu Yaoyu by his name brought a pang of sorrow to her heart.

Lin Jingyi naturally did not want Nalan Zhimeng to be cured, so she followed Xie Yuan's memories and sealed off Nalan Zhimeng's sense of pain.

He even forced out a few drops of sweat, pretending to struggle. After a quarter of an hour, Lin Jingyi wiped the sweat from his forehead and pulled out the silver needles.

Nalan Zhimeng had already fallen asleep the moment Lin Jingyi removed the needles.

For the past two weeks, she has been suffering from the effects of toxic gas day and night and has not been able to sleep well at all. Now that her pain receptors are blocked, she can naturally fall asleep.

The palace maid watching from the sidelines the whole time, though she knew nothing about medicine, thought that Miss Xie was truly a miracle doctor since she saw that the Empress Dowager was asleep.

As Lin Jingyi spoke, he casually wrote down a prescription for nourishing the body and gave it to the palace maid, instructing her to prepare the medicine according to the prescription for Nalan Zhimeng to take.

Then, with unsteady steps, he opened the door to the palace.

"Miss Xie, let me take you back." Seeing that Lin Jingyi almost fell, the palace maid stepped forward to help her up. She had seen Miss Xie wiping away sweat constantly during the acupuncture treatment.

"It's nothing serious, just a bit of mental strain. I'll be fine after a short rest."

Lin Jingyi waved his hand, refusing the palace maid's help.

"Yuan Yuan, how are you feeling?" Seeing Lin Jingyi come out, Huangfu Yaoyu glanced into the bedroom, but couldn't see anything, so he anxiously asked Lin Jingyi.

"The acupuncture has been completed, and Her Majesty the Empress is asleep. We just need to find an antidote."

Lin Jingyi smiled very easily.

Huangfu Yaoyu also breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that this was only suppressing the effects of the poison, and that he still needed to find an antidote.

"In that case, we will set off for the Valley of Divine Healers tomorrow."

Huangfu Yaoyu had already sent people to the Divine Doctor Valley when Lin Jingyi said that the antidote was in the Divine Doctor Valley, but Lin Jingyi was completely unaware of all this.

In Xie Yuan's previous life, he wrote down the prescription for the antidote and cured Nalan Zhimeng.

"Okay." Lin Jingyi also wanted to leave the palace as soon as possible. In this palace, it was difficult for someone without value to survive.

If Huangfu Yaoyu knew that she hadn't controlled the spread of the poison for Nalan Zhimeng, Lin Jingyi felt she wouldn't be able to withstand the man's wrath on the day Nalan Zhimeng died.

She was safer only after leaving the palace.

"I'll go in and see... Mother." Huangfu Yaoyu originally wanted to go in and see how Nalan Zhimeng was doing, but Lin Jingyi stopped him outside. Huangfu Yaoyu looked at Lin Jingyi with a puzzled expression.

"The Empress Dowager has already fallen asleep, so it is not appropriate to disturb her. If Yaoyu has nothing to do, why don't you accompany me on a tour of this palace?"

“Okay.” Although Huangfu Yaoyu really didn’t want to accompany Lin Jingyi, Lin Jingyi was still of value at the moment, so Huangfu Yaoyu could only obediently accompany Lin Jingyi to tour the palace.

The two walked side by side in the Imperial Garden.

"Yaoyu, why does the Empress Dowager look so young? She's already the Empress Dowager!"

Lin Jingyi went straight to Huangfu Yaoyu's sore spot, asking with a naive and earnest expression.

Although Huangfu Yaoyu didn't want to answer, the common people already knew about this, so he explained:

"When my father was still alive, his health was poor, so he married the daughter of the prime minister who was destined to be an empress. Not long after, my father passed away, and the empress became the empress dowager."

Huangfu Yaoyu deliberately concealed the fact that he and Nalan Zhimeng had once pledged their lives to each other.

But when he recalled these things, Huangfu Yaoyu still felt very sad, and his mood remained low throughout the journey.

Because Huangfu Yaoyu is the regent, and the current emperor is weak and incompetent, the regent wields immense power.

Although the ladies in the palace regretted participating in the imperial concubine selection, they remained obedient.

Those palace maids who were even slightly attractive and had a bit of cunning would dress up specially and deliberately bump into Huangfu Yaoyu as they passed by the Imperial Garden, hoping to get a compliment from him.