The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1225 - 1225 Past and Present Lives (Two Updates)

Chapter 1225: Past and Present Lives (Two Updates) Chapter 1225: Past and Present Lives (Two Updates) Xuanping Marquis Gu couldn’t care less about the physician’s admonishments, and with a swoosh, abandoned his wheelchair, strode forward in a few steps, lifted the fainting Princess Xinyang, and carried her onto the carriage.

The scene unfolded too abruptly, such that even Yujin didn’t regain her senses immediately.

The Princess’s condition had clearly eased quite a bit, so why the sudden relapse?

Since she had already fainted, concerns about her earlier declaration of not sharing a carriage with any man were disregarded.

“Get on,” said the Xuanping Marquis to Yujin.

“Yes.”

Yujin climbed onto the carriage.

“Let me do it, my lord,” Yujin softly offered.

The Xuanping Marquis looked at Princess Xinyang’s pale face in his arms, considered the possibility that she might faint again from fright if she awoke en route, and finally nodded, handing Princess Xinyang over to Yujin.

Yujin, cradling Princess Xinyang, gently grasped the Princess’s hand.

The Xuanping Marquis frowned.

Although his interactions with Princess Xinyang were minimal, they were a married couple with conjugal relations; yet now, he could only watch as she lay in the arms of another woman.

What in the world was happening!

The Xuanping Marquis was visibly irked!

He suddenly stood up and drew back the curtain.

Yujin was taken aback and asked, “My lord, what are you doing?”

The Xuanping Marquis replied coldly, “Getting off. I’ll ride a horse to avoid scaring her into fainting again should she wake.”

“But your injuries…” Yujin began, but the Xuanping Marquis had already alighted the carriage and commandeered a horse from an attendant to mount.

Xiao Hen was away at the Ministry of Justice handling official business. Gu Jiao had been bedridden for several days, but today she was finally able to move around freely on her own. She first relaxed her muscles and bones in the courtyard, then picked up the Red-Tasseled Spear and practiced a set of spear techniques.

Martial practice requires daily diligence, otherwise skills would rust.

She was mid-practice when Xuanping Marquis returned with Princess Xinyang.

Gu Jiao knew they had gone to the palace, but while they had left together in one carriage, they returned separately, with Xuanping Marquis on horseback and Princess Xinyang in the carriage.

Had they… had a fight?

The Xuanping Marquis dismounted with indifference and tossed his riding whip to a maid guarding the gate.

Then he said to Gu Jiao in the courtyard, “The Princess has fainted. Go and have a look.”

“Oh.” Gu Jiao put away her Red-Tasseled Spear and glanced around.

“Give it to me.” Xuanping Marquis reached out his hand to Gu Jiao and took her Red-Tasseled Spear.

Gu Jiao eyed his waist and thigh without comment and walked toward the door.

Gu Jiao carried the unconscious Princess Xinyang back to the room and laid her on the soft bedchamber.

Yujin followed in and asked with concern, “Jiaojiao, the Princess won’t be in trouble, will she?”

Gu Jiao first examined her pupils, which still looked normal, then placed three fingers on her wrist to take her pulse: “What happened? How did she faint?”

Yujin looked down and said, “She fainted at the Palace Gate. Before she fainted, she had visited Huaqing Palace and Kunning Palace. I didn’t follow her inside, so I don’t know what happened. The Princess emerged from Kunning Palace with a rather poor complexion, and by the time we reached the Palace Gate, she told the Marquis she did not want to share a carriage with him. The Marquis… the Marquis asked her a few questions, and then the Princess fainted.”

“She fainted just from being asked? Was it something that angered her?” Gu Jiao unbuckled Princess Xinyang’s tight clothes and waistband to help her breathe more comfortably.

Princess Xinyang’s angina had long been cured, and her fainting didn’t seem connected to it; it rather resembled a swoon brought on by shock.

Yujin’s recount clearly held something back.

After loosening Princess Xinyang’s clothing, Gu Jiao pulled over a thin cotton blanket to cover her.

She turned to look at Yujin, “Aunt Yujin, if you don’t tell the truth, it will be hard for me to make an accurate diagnosis for the Princess.”

Yujin hesitated to speak.

After placing Gu Jiao’s Red-Tasseled Spear properly, Xuanping Marquis stepped inside the room.

It became even harder for Yujin to speak.

Gu Jiao pointed to a chair nearby, “Sit.”

Xuanping Marquis was definitely the most disobedient of patients; told not to move about, his wound must have swelled up again.

The atmosphere in the room took on an eerie silence for a moment.

Xuanping Marquis’s gaze bore into Yujin, pressing down on her until she felt suffocated.

Yujin glanced at the still unconscious Princess Xinyang, torn within herself, until the desire to heal Princess Xinyang overcame her.

She lowered her head and slowly began, “Princess Xinyang cannot come into contact with men, she feels discomfort if any man approaches too closely.”

“How serious is it? How close, how uncomfortable?” Gu Jiao asked methodically.

“It’s…,” Yujin, a person with a clear train of thought, sorted out the details after a moment of nervousness and confusion, “if it’s outdoors, the limit is a distance of three steps. If indoors… Princess Xinyang cannot be in the same room as a man.”

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