After Cheng Mingran woke up, the servants brought the boiled medicine over. Ji Lingzhou sat next to Cheng Mingran and said, "Drink the medicine first." He took the medicine bowl from the palace maid.

Cheng Mingran felt uncomfortable just looking at it. The medicine was pitch black and she really didn't want to drink it.

Ji Lingzhou handed her the medicine bowl and said, "Drink it first."

Cheng Mingran took the medicine bowl. She was reluctant at first, but under Ji Lingzhou's gaze, she did not dare to refuse. Under his gaze, Cheng Mingran took a small sip and then her face turned bitter.

Ji Lingzhou raised the corners of her lips slightly in a place where no one could see. She looked much more lively now.

"Is it very bitter?" Ji Lingzhou asked.

Cheng Mingran looked at Ji Lingzhou timidly and then nodded. She had never liked drinking these medicines since she was a child.

"Why are you still the same as when you were a kid? How can you get better if you don't take the medicine?" Ji Lingzhou was helpless, and then took the medicine bowl from her hand.

Cheng Mingran felt a pang in her heart when she heard him talk about his childhood: "Your Majesty, do you still remember what my childhood was like?"

Ji Lingzhou's hand paused slightly. He...originally he thought he wouldn't care about these things, but now, whenever she is mentioned or seen, everything about her will automatically come to his mind.

"You are a girl who grew up in the palace, so I naturally have an impression of you. You don't like taking medicine, and when you were a child, the empress dowager needed you to coax you every time you took medicine, so I remember it." Ji Lingzhou told Cheng Mingran, and stirred the medicine by the way.

Cheng Mingran's eyes were red: "I thought Your Majesty didn't care, so I never paid attention to it."

"Besides you, I was the only one who went to Shoukang Palace quite often before. How could I not notice it? Okay, let's stop talking and take the medicine first." Ji Lingzhou said as he fed her the medicine himself.

Cheng Mingran was flattered, but she was a little afraid to move when she saw the medicine that Ji Lingzhou was feeding to her mouth.

Ji Lingzhou saw her fear, so he took the initiative to say, "Drink it first, okay?"

After hearing this, Cheng Mingran dared to move. She leaned forward slightly and then carefully put the medicine into her mouth. It tasted very bad and she almost vomited it out.

Seeing this, Ji Lingzhou looked at Li Sheng and said, "Go and get a bowl of honey water."

"Yes." Li Sheng's face was full of shock. What His Majesty had just said to Concubine Shu was enough to shock him, because His Majesty had never chatted with that person like this before.

The key point is that His Majesty didn't just chat, he also personally fed medicine to Concubine Shu. Who else has this blessing? His Majesty personally fed medicine, even the Empress Dowager has never had this experience, right?

Now, because Concubine Shu is afraid of hardship, she even asks him to prepare honey water. Tsk, if His Majesty is not sincere, he will not believe it, okay?

Not only Li Sheng, but even Cheng Mingran was surprised. She admitted that she had known that there was something wrong with the bowl of medicine, but she still drank it, just to make Ji Lingzhou pity her and to continue to test his attitude.

Unexpectedly, he would feed her medicine himself and even bring up things from his childhood. The former Ji Lingzhou would never do these things, so... Cheng Mingran was a little confused. Why did he change so much?

"Your health has not been well to begin with, and now you've been poisoned, so you just need to take good care of yourself before the Queen Mother comes back. I'll have someone talk to the Queen, and you don't have to pay your respects there in the future." Ji Lingzhou said as he fed her medicine.

Cheng Mingran was not pretentious, and she didn't want to go to such occasions, so it was better to have less trouble than more, and not going to pay her respects just suited her wishes.

With Ji Lingzhou's supervision, the bowl of medicine was quickly finished. Li Sheng also brought over the honey water. "Your Majesty."

Ji Lingzhou brought the honey water over: "If you are afraid of bitterness, drink some honey water to get rid of the bitter taste in your mouth."

"In the past, when my aunt coaxed me to drink medicine, she would take a sip of sugar water and a sip of medicine." Cheng Mingran said.

Ji Lingzhou gave her the sugar water: "It was the Queen Mother who indulged you to do whatever you want. You took medicine and sugar water at the same time. What if it affects the efficacy of the medicine?"

Cheng Mingran was silent, then drank the sugar water in the bowl without saying a word.

"Use your brain before doing anything next time, otherwise your body won't be able to withstand it." Ji Lingzhou suddenly said again.

Cheng Mingran looked puzzled, as if he didn't understand. Ji Lingzhou glanced at him, then looked at the green plants not far away: "Drinking too much soup is not good for your body, and not drinking it is not good for your body either, because the disease is not getting better, and it is getting worse."

Cheng Mingran's heart tightened, she grabbed the quilt with her hands, pursed her thin lips and dared not say a word.

Li Sheng retreated tactfully, and suddenly they were the only two left in the room.

Ji Lingzhou took the bowl she had finished drinking from and put it aside: "There's a strong smell of medicine in your room, and it won't go away. But I'm used to it, so you don't think it's a problem?"

Cheng Mingran's back was covered with a thin layer of sweat, so Ji Lingzhou knew...

She didn't dare look at Ji Lingzhou, but Ji Lingzhou could see the expression on her face clearly.

"The green plants in your bedroom look dead. I'll ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send a new one over later. With these green plants, I think you'll feel better, so they'll also help with your recovery. Take your medicine well and take good care of yourself. Do you understand?" Ji Lingzhou looked at her and said.

"...I understand. I will take good care of myself." Cheng Mingran replied. He...won't pursue the matter?

Ji Lingzhou looked at her hands that were clutching the quilt because of nervousness: "Cheng Mingran," he called her name.

Cheng Mingran didn't dare to look up, but Ji Lingzhou said again: "Look up and look at me."

Cheng Mingran's heart was beating fast, and even her breathing became nervous. But she dared not disobey Ji Lingzhou's order, so after hesitating for a while, she looked up into his eyes.

Ji Lingzhou looked at Cheng Mingran, whose eyes were full of panic, and he didn't know what she was feeling. But he knew that Cheng Mingran was afraid of him, very afraid of him...

"Why are you nervous?" he asked.

"Your Highness..." Cheng Mingran didn't know what to say. Should she tell him the cause of this incident? He already knew everything. Should she tell him?

"Cheng Mingran, you are a girl raised by the Queen Mother. What do these things mean to you? Are you panicking just because you are afraid? If you are afraid, why do you do it?" Ji Lingzhou asked.

Cheng Mingran didn't know what Ji Lingzhou meant.

"If I didn't know before, I should know it now. Do you know why? It's because of your expression now. So..." Ji Lingzhou paused.

so?

"So next time if you can't do everything well, you should be honest about it, otherwise no one can protect you." Ji Lingzhou said.

Cheng Mingran pursed her lips. What did he mean by that? Was he teaching her what to do? But shouldn't he be angry?

Cheng Mingran was confused, and before she could figure it out, Ji Lingzhou said, "There is always a purpose for doing things. Don't you have anything to say?"

Ji Lingzhou wanted to know why she did this, but... Cheng Mingran was in a dilemma. How could she easily tell the reasons?

"You only have this one chance." Ji Lingzhou stared at her closely.

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