The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1260 - 1260 614 A couples reality (Added updates for the

Chapter 1260: 614 A couple’s reality (Added updates for the activity of urging updates in the update-urging community) Chapter 1260: 614 A couple’s reality (Added updates for the activity of urging updates in the update-urging community) Gu Jiao’s mind was filled with one thought—everything was utterly ruined.

Through clenched teeth, Gu Jiao eked out a few words, “How could Princess Xinyang have drunk the medicine! Didn’t Yujin give it to you?”

It was all because someone had a loose tongue, showing off and boasting, angering Princess Xinyang. In a fit of rage, she didn’t give him medicine to relieve his pain and ended up drinking it herself.

Princess Xinyang had no idea what had happened. Seeing Gu Jiao in the courtyard, she made her way toward her, not sparing a glance for Lord Xuanping by Gu Jiao’s side, “Where did you go just now? I couldn’t find you.”

That’s something I should be asking you. Where did you go just now? Weren’t you going to the cloth shop? How did you end up here?

As if sensing Gu Jiao’s confusion, Princess Xinyang explained, “I remembered I had collected your clothes from the cloth shop after returning to Vermilion Bird Avenue. Yours are in your room; go try them on quickly. If they don’t fit, I can exchange them.”

Princess Xinyang had made clothes for all the children in the family, including Huangfu Xian. She had come to the old sacrificial wine master’s place specifically so Huangfu Xian could try on his new clothes.

She just hadn’t expected to have a bit of a disagreement with Lord Xuanping.

Well, it would be strange for that man to give someone a pleasant day.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Princess Xinyang noticed Gu Jiao’s speechless gaze.

Would you believe me if I said you took the wrong medicine?

“Admiring your beauty, am I not?” said Lord Xuanping nonchalantly.

Princess Xinyang shot him a fierce glare and said to Gu Jiao, “What are you standing around for? Come here quickly!”

“Oh.”

Gu Jiao silently followed.

The two made their way to Gu Jiao’s room.

Princess Xinyang pulled out a pleated dress from the bed, held it up against Gu Jiao, and compared, “It looks quite fitting, and since it was made based on your measurements, it should be fine. But I worry some of the embroiderers’ stitches may not be up to par.”

Princess Xinyang had already purchased plenty of clothes for Gu Jiao, but a wealthy mother-in-law can never have too many clothes for her daughter-in-law.

At that moment, Gu Jiao was too preoccupied to care whether her clothes fit. She kept quietly observing Princess Xinyang’s complexion and breathing.

“Princess,” she spoke up.

“What is it? Lift your arms,” said Princess Xinyang.

Gu Jiao raised her arms, and Princess Xinyang spread out the sleeves for comparison.

While letting her compare the clothing, Gu Jiao subtly asked, “Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”

“Not at all, why do you ask?” replied Princess Xinyang.

Gu Jiao’s fingertips twitched. “It’s just that thing you just ate…”

Before she could finish, Xiao Hen returned from the Hanlin Academy. Arriving at Gu Jiao’s doorway, he saw them and rushed to greet, “Mother, Jiaojiao.”

“You’re back,” said Princess Xinyang with a glance, “Quick, try on your clothes.”

More clothes.

A twitch appeared at the corner of Xiao Hen’s mouth: “All right.”

Indeed, just like when he was a child, he could easily have thirty sets of new clothes in a month, never repeating an outfit.

He didn’t mind wearing new clothes but disliked the constant trying on.

But with the order from his mother, he had no choice.

“All right, you try them on yourself,” said Princess Xinyang as she handed the clothes to Gu Jiao.

“Where are you going?” Gu Jiao asked.

Princess Xinyang snorted with laughter, “I am not leaving. Just going to ask Liao Quan how that horse he got a few days ago is faring.”

You must not go look for Liao Quan!

Gu Jiao quickly said, “It’s a great horse! Very fast! I’ve tried it myself! Why not visit the study room instead?”

Princess Xinyang gave Gu Jiao a strange look, sensing something odd about her reaction, but didn’t dwell on it too much, “Understood.”

She went to the study room.

Gu Jiao left the clothes behind and went to Xiao Hen’s room.

Xiao Hen was undoing his belt when she burst in, startling him!

Glancing at his loosely hanging belt, Gu Jiao calmly stated, “My Lord, something has happened.”

Xiao Hen tightened his grip on his belt as his dissatisfaction showed, “You, turn around.”

“Oh.” Gu Jiao turned away, muttering, “As if I haven’t seen it before.”

“What did you say?”

“Nothing!”

She absolutely couldn’t admit to having seen everything when drunk!

After straightening out his clothes and placing the changed garments on a rack, Xiao Hen asked, “What happened? You can turn back now.”

Gu Jiao turned around and recounted the issue with the medicine.

The normal reaction for anyone hearing about this would be, “Heaven forbid Jingkong didn’t drink it,” or, “Princess Xinyang is so unlucky, how could she have drunk it?”

However, Xiao Hen’s reaction was unusually confused as he glanced at Gu Jiao, “Why would you have such medicine in your hands?”

Gu Jiao replied, “Would you believe me if I said it just appeared in the first-aid kit?”

Xiao Hen remained silent.

Like I’d believe that.

Xiao Hen looked at Gu Jiao, his expression growing complicated.

She kept saying she would wait for Jiaojiao to grow up, but in the end, was she the one who couldn’t wait and planned to drug him?

Gu Jiao: “…”

Could your focus be any more off?

“What do we do now?” Xiao Hen asked, setting aside the matter of drugging him for later; they needed to deal with the current predicament first. “Is there an antidote?”

Princess Xinyang and the Marquis of Xuanping weren’t really husband and wife, and they couldn’t share a bed, otherwise, when Princess Xinyang woke up, she would probably want to commit murder.

Gu Jiao said with regret, “There’s no antidote.”

Xiao Hen’s expression changed slightly: “So we can only——”

Gu Jiao blinked, “Does the princess truly not have any maidservants?”

Xiao Hen: “…”

If Gu Jiao could ask this, it meant that the drug’s effect wasn’t something one could easily endure, but Princess Xinyang really didn’t have any maidservants.

She couldn’t get close to men at all, the so-called maidservants were nothing more than a mistaken rumor.

Gu Jiao sighed, “Then… we can only make her drink more water, and then I’ll give her some IV fluids to see if we can speed up metabolism.”

“We have no other choice.” Xiao Hen said, “I will go prepare some cooling tea.”

The young couple split up to take action.

Gu Jiao returned to the east room to open the first aid kit and took out the IV fluids, but when she pushed open the door to the study room, she discovered that Princess Xinyang was already gone!

“Husband!”

Gu Jiao went to the kitchen.

Xiao Hen had just placed the firewood into the stove when he looked at her, utterly perplexed.

Gu Jiao whispered, “The princess has disappeared.”

Xiao Hen’s hand shook, and the firewood fell out of the stove.

He stood up abruptly, “We must find her at once!”

If his mother randomly grabbed a man from the avenue and brought him back, it would be disastrous!

Xiao Hen had just left the kitchen when Gu Jiao tugged at his sleeve and pointed towards the neighboring backyard, “It seems, there’s no need to look.”

In the backyard, the Marquis of Xuanping was slouched in his wheelchair, basking in the sun nonchalantly.

He was about to grow mold from inactivity, but what else could he do?

He sighed repeatedly.

Suddenly, a figure with a seemingly murderous aura approached his wheelchair. The owner of the shadow reached out with a delicate, jade-like hand and slowly clutched his collar.

The Marquis of Xuanping felt his throat tighten, and the next second, he was yanked backward with a great force, overturning in his wheelchair onto the ground.

Unable to turn around, the Marquis of Xuanping could only look at the shadow cast on the ground and frown, saying, “Qin Fengwan? Qin Fengwan, what are you doing!”

Princess Xinyang didn’t speak, only gripping his collar and dragging him across the ground towards his chamber, like a sack of potatoes.

The Marquis of Xuanping was utterly bewildered.

What was happening?

Had Qin Fengwan lost her mind? Was she this furious just because he made a few untimely comments in the afternoon?

But then again, when had Qin Fengwan become so strong?

These weren’t the important matters, however.

The main point was that it was quite embarrassing for a grown man to be dragged on the ground by a woman, wasn’t it?

“Qin Fengwan! You let go of me!”

He said in a cold voice.

Princess Xinyang not only didn’t let go, but she also dragged him up the stairs with thuds—Duang—Duang—Duang.

The Marquis of Xuanping, whose pants were now torn with a big hole: “…”

The decisive and formidable military Marquis, renowned as the best warrior, was dragged into the house by the possessed Princess Xinyang without any means of fighting back.

The Marquis of Xuanping furrowed his brows, feeling that something was off.

Bang!

Princess Xinyang closed the door of the room.

The Marquis of Xuanping squinted his eyes. Was she planning to murder her own husband?

With her back against the door, the dim light in the room cast her face in shadow.

The Marquis of Xuanping couldn’t see her expression clearly but felt her eyes shining unnaturally bright, yet also radiating a strange eeriness.

The Marquis of Xuanping’s eyes gleamed mockingly, “Qin Fengwan, have you stopped fearing men, or have you stopped fearing me? You even dare to stay in the same room as me. Don’t tell me you’ve killed me? Let me remind you, even if I’m paralyzed to the point of only having one finger left, you’re still no match for me!”

No sooner had his words fallen than Princess Xinyang grabbed him with both hands and flung him onto the bedchamber.

The Marquis of Xuanping, utterly puzzled by the fall: “…!!”

The Marquis of Xuanping hooked his right lip corner in a wicked smile: “Qin Fengwan, have you taken the wrong medicine again?”

…

The Marquis of Xuanping closed his eyes and said nonchalantly, “Qin Fengwan, I am injured and incapable of human action.”

…

The Marquis of Xuanping bristled, “Qin Fengwan… you beast——”