Quick Transmigration: Irresistible Beauty
Chapter 139 - 139: Loyal Maid Who Died Because of Beauty (9)

"There should be nothing wrong, Your Highness," Yue Ran quickly replied. "This servant will just go back to smear some ointment on it later on."

"Your skin is too delicate, and it must have been red due to the fall just now," Lu Heng said. "If you wait until you go back to treat it, that wounded spot will become bruised, looking green and blue. It will look very ugly on the skin."

Who knew that the third prince would say these kinds of words?

Yue Ran looked at the third prince a little curiously and asked, "How could Your Highness know about these things so clearly?"

"When this prince was young, this prince was not loved by the imperial father and had to grow up alone in the Lasting Autumn Palace," Lu Heng started. "The servants around this prince were bitter and mean, and knowing that this prince will not have a good prospect in the future and will not be seen by the imperial father, naturally they will act more unscrupulously without caring for this prince's identity as the third prince. Back then, this prince was just a neglected prince with no real status."

Seeing the worry on Yue Ran's face, Lu Heng chuckled a little.

"It is okay; this prince has already grown up," Lu Heng said. "This prince may not have been able to understand it when this prince was young, but now this prince does not care about it anymore."

Lu Heng's words were actually an understatement of his past experience. The reason he was neglected by the emperor was because of the lowly status of his mother, a foot-washing maid who died of dystocia after giving birth to him.

If it were not for the male protagonist himself being a smart and motivated person who strives to climb up regardless, which managed to attract the favored concubine's attention, one who does not have a child of her own, to take him back from the Lasting Autumn Palace and adopt him under her name, he would not have been able to even see or recognize the face of his imperial father for life.

It just so happens that the emperor does not have a lot of children, and his remaining imperial brothers who survived were not that smart and only knew how to play around all day long. It was very likely that it would not be possible for him to be a candidate for the future emperor. If so, then he was most likely to be a neglected prince again.

When Yue Ran heard Lu Heng's words, she could not help but look at the young man with some sympathy. Who knew that the third prince was living in such dire straits when he was just a child?

"That was all the experience of the past," Yue Ran said. "Your Highness is now the emperor's favorite son."

To be honest, how could the imperial family really feel so much sorrow and depression? Lu Heng, who was about to be the winner, the future Son of Heaven, does not care about the difficult situations in the past or the hardships he has faced up to this day.

What he did not expect was for Yue Ran to comfort him so gently after she had heard of his difficult childhood. It seemed that all the misery he had faced before was worth it.

And now, Lu Heng felt that his road to getting Yue Ran to like him was bright. Maybe the sympathy she felt for him would turn into a liking for him in the near future.

"Yes," Lu Heng said with a nod. "Now this prince is okay because this prince is already used to it. If the imperial father did not have a better choice, the position of the future emperor would not have been mine."

Yue Ran did not expect Lu Heng to be quite capable of acting. Those who did not know about the real situation would have thought that he loved his imperial father a lot. Then again, if he did not know how to act, he would not have been the most favorably favored son of the emperor now.

But look at the things that he did after he had ascended the throne from the original body's future memory. If his imperial father knew about it, he might have to jump out of his coffin in rage, but at least this dynasty will still prosper after all.

Even if Yue Ran knew that Lu Heng was just acting in front of her, Yue Ran still had to act along with him to keep the original body's character setting in this world.

"The emperor saw that Your Highness is smart and studious, so he would also naturally value Your Highness," Yue Ran said gently. "It was not that the emperor did not have a better choice, but Your Highness is the best choice to be the future emperor out of all the other candidates."

Hearing this, Lu Heng only looked at Yue Ran with affection in his eyes.

"Yue Ran knows this prince the best," Lu Heng stated in a doting tone.

Pretending not to see the affection in the young man's eyes, Yue Ran continued to say innocently, "How could Ran Ran be compared with the side wife? Your Highness and the side wife grew up together and are childhood sweethearts with one heart, so the side wife would naturally understand Your Highness, the third prince, the most."

The more Lu Heng heard Yue Ran's words, the more he felt that everything was just wrong.

"In fact, this prince and Yi Yan are not childhood sweethearts," Lu Heng said in reply to Yue Ran's words. He wanted to correct her so that there would be no misunderstanding between them. "This prince had only met Yi Yan when she had entered the palace a few times. At that time, the empress liked the second brother and kept trying to bring them together. But the second brother does not like Yi Yan at all, and every time they meet, the second brother will always try to take me with him. That was how I got to know Yi Yan."

Lu Heng was eager to express something to Yue Ran, but she just refused to answer him. The young girl pretended to be oblivious to the young man's implications and acted as if she did not know anything at all.

She is the most innocent. She is pure white.

Yue Ran had long known that even the empress, who was already dead due to "sickness," did not have a child of her own. For all Yue Ran knew, the now-dead empress could not bear a child because she had suffered the consequences of a harem fight.

The second prince is a very innocent man. He is the son of a dead concubine in the emperor's harem. When his mother died due to an "accident," the empress adopted him and took him under her wing. But the empress is now dead, and the second prince is now all alone.

Seeing Yue Ran's reaction to his words, Lu Heng could only sigh in his heart that the young girl was too innocent, and he helped her sit down on his chair.

Yue Ran widened her eyes and asked, "Your Highness, how can this servant take your seat?"

Before the young girl could stand up, Lu Heng held down her thin shoulders, which made her unable to move up any further.

"Do not move around. This is nothing but a chair," Lu Heng said.

Yue Ran had no choice but to sit down. In fact, Yue Ran did not intend to move out at all. It was just right for the male protagonist to take the initiative to ask her to stay in her position.

The young girl can only helplessly watch as the third prince picks up the jade crystal ointment placed on the table that he had prepared in advance and opens the lid.

In an instant, the room was filled with the delicate and sweet aroma of a blooming lotus.

"Your Highness, this jade crystal ointment smells so good!" Yue Ran exclaimed in surprise. "It was no wonder that it was really an expensive gift that was limited in numbers."

"This jade crystal ointment is after all made mostly of the snow lotus on the Heavenly Mountain, which is beneficial to treat wounds, like the red spot on your injury just now," Lu Heng explained slowly to the young girl.

As he said that, he rolled up Yue Ran's sleeves and rubbed the pure white ointment on her skin.

Yue Ran dodged shyly and finally decided to look away to reduce her embarrassment.

Sure enough, Lu Heng saw the red swelling on her arm, which was especially conspicuous on the originally porcelain-white skin.

Lu Heng took a swab of the jade crystal ointment from the bottle and smeared it evenly and lightly on the red spot on Yue Ran's skin.

After he finished his actions, he asked, "So, how do you feel?"

Hot air sprayed on Yue Ran's ear while the young man spoke to her. The sensitive Yue Ran quickly shrank her neck in response as she said, "The ointment is icy cold, but it feels very comfortable on the skin."

Pretending not to see Yue Ran's avoidance, Lu Heng sat by the young girl's side. The chair that was originally only used for one person was not being squeezed with two people, which made the space a little too crowded.

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