The reborn sweet girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent prince hugs her and coaxes her!

The night was as dark as ink, and the inner rooms of Xinghui Hall were brightly lit.

The swaying light and shadows reflected on Xu Rongrong's nervous face, and also enveloped her panicked mood.

Mu Rong lay quietly on the bed, his face as pale as paper, his hands and feet extremely cold, and cold sweat constantly oozing from his forehead.

Looking at his appearance at this moment, Xu Rongrong's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by cold claws, making her almost unable to breathe. She had never seen Mu Rong so weak.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Shu Qing was brought in by Mu Ai overnight.

Seeing Mu Rong lying unconscious on the bed, Shu Qing immediately understood the seriousness of the situation, and his hands trembled slightly. He naturally understood Mu Rong's current condition at a glance: "Please wait outside for a while, my Lord, while I examine the Marquis' pulse."

"Yeah." Xu Rongrong stood up with the help of the bed frame, but the moment she stood up, her body shook involuntarily.

"County Lady, be careful!" Shu Qing said hurriedly.

"I'm fine..." Because of excessive nervousness, Xu Rongrong's throat was extremely dry at this moment. She could hardly speak and could only gesture with her hands.

Shu Qing lowered his eyes: "Don't worry, County Lady, I will do my best."

Xu Rongrong walked to the outer room, Wen Yao lowered the curtain of the partition room, and hurriedly poured her a cup of tea.

The tea was cold, and Xu Rongrong didn't care about much. She swallowed a few mouthfuls and looked at Mu Ai who was standing beside her: "I hope I didn't alarm anyone else."

"Madam, rest assured. No one noticed me when I came in and out. Except for Xinghui Hall, everyone else had gone to sleep and had no idea what was going on here." Mu Ai finished speaking and added, "Chief Shi Yi has also given instructions in Xinghui Hall that the Marquis's emergency illness tonight must not be disclosed at all."

It is a turbulent time right now, and Mu Rong is in charge of the defense of the capital. If the outside world were to notice the sudden change today, who knows what kind of turmoil would arise.

Xu Rongrong nodded: "That's good."

After saying this, she looked through the beaded curtain into the dim inner room.

Without even taking Mu Rong's pulse, Shu Qing already knew what was going on.

He turned his back, took out the medicine for suppressing the cold poison from the interlayer of the medicine box, pried open Mu Rong's mouth and fed it into his mouth.

Then he began to use acupuncture to seal the cold poison near his heart. The silver needles kept flickering under the candlelight, and his every movement revealed his inner tension.

After a cup of tea, Mu Rong's complexion began to improve, but there was still no sign of waking up.

Shu Qing checked Mu Rong's pulse and found that the cold poison was gradually dissipating.

He let out a long sigh and then began to pull out the silver needle.

Each stitch was done very slowly.

The slowness in applying the acupuncture just now was out of caution, and now it was purely to delay time: How should I explain it to the county lady later?

Mu Rong was poisoned by the ice-sealing poison in order to save the county lady, but he never let her know. Is it the right time to tell her the truth tonight while he is unconscious?

but……

Shu Qing sighed.

According to Mu Rong's current poisoning condition, the inner room was already like an ice cellar. But the man in front of him... in order to prevent the county lady from noticing the abnormality, he was still trying his best to suppress the poison even in a coma to prevent the cold from spreading to the entire room. Others did not know how difficult it was, but Shu Qing had already killed four people who were poisoned. No one understood better than him how risky and painful Mu Rong's move was!

Mu Rong is trying so hard to protect this secret, how can he start talking?

But if I were to lie...

How could he hide it from the clever county lord?

Shu Qing took out the last silver needle and put it into the medicine box. He turned around and saw a bowl of medicine with some left on the table in the inner room.

He picked it up and sniffed it gently, his brows relaxed.

Xu Rongrong looked at the movement in the inner room and quickly opened the curtain and came in: "Mr. Shu, how is the Marquis?"

Shu Qing pretended to smile and said, "It's okay. I have already used acupuncture to repair your heart meridian. You will be able to recover after a day of rest."

"Repair the heart meridian?... What happened to the Marquis? Why was his heart meridian damaged, and why did he suddenly faint?" Xu Rongrong looked at Mu Rong's still pale face and frowned slightly.

"Have you had trouble sleeping these past two days, Lady County?" Shu Qing did not answer but asked instead.

Xu Rongrong was startled, then responded: "It's a problem I got from the past. Every time there is a thunderstorm, I have nightmares and can't sleep."

Shu Qing nodded slightly: "That's it. I think the Marquis also knows the county lady's stubborn illness and knows that the tranquilizing soup can't relieve the county lady's nightmare, so he used his inner strength to drive away the nightmare for the county lady... The inner strength was consumed too much, and the old injury was implicated, which caused the sudden fainting."

"Old wounds?"

"That's right! A year ago, the Marquis was shot in the chest while in the hunting grounds. Wasn't it the county lady who used the blood-draining grass to treat him?"

"But... why were his hands and feet so cold just now? They are somewhat similar to the symptoms I had when I was poisoned."

Shu Qing's heart skipped a beat.

He knew Xu Rongrong was not so easy to fool! But at this time, he had to bite the bullet and continue: "The county lady knows herbs but may not be proficient in medicine. The human body temperature depends entirely on the heart pumping blood. The old injury in the Marquis' heart just recurred, and it is inevitable that the heart blood is insufficient, so naturally his hands and feet are cold. As for the poisoning mentioned by the county lady... Don't you remember that the whole house you were in was cold at that time, how could it be like this now?"

Shu Qing almost believed his own excuses.

Xu Rongrong looked at Shu Qing's determined expression, lowered her eyes and nodded.

"If the county lady has no other questions, I will go back and make medicine for the marquis to replenish his qi and blood."

"Thank you, Mr. Shu." Xu Rongrong stood up and thanked him. "Please ask Deputy General Ai to escort Mr. Shu back to the clinic."

After everyone left, Xu Rongrong slowly sat back on the bed, but when she saw Mu Rong looking haggard because of her, her long eyelashes trembled uncontrollably.

Wen Yao stood aside, watching her young lady's worried expression, and whispered, "Young lady, don't worry too much... The Marquis will be fine. Last year, after he was shot by an arrow in the hunting ground, he was afraid that you would have a hard time in the thunderstorm night, so he still used his inner power to help you sleep. Afterwards... he also fainted, but woke up soon."

Xu Rongrong suddenly looked up, there was more than just the hunting ground!

When he was heading to Yuzhou City, he once used his internal energy for her, causing an old injury to cause him to vomit blood... If she hadn't discovered the blood on the ground that day, I'm afraid this matter would have been concealed forever.

He...why would he do this?

In the past, Mu Rong was always so calm and composed, and never showed any vulnerable side.

But now he has wasted his internal energy for her and even fell into a coma.

The resentment from the previous life has gradually faded away amid the various entanglements of this life.

But everything he did for her in this life was revealed one by one in this emotional entanglement.

She didn't know if she could really let go of everything from her past life.

If I really let it go, would that be a betrayal of my previous life?

Before I knew it, my nails pierced my palms and bright red blood was gradually oozing out.