FID – Chapter 273

Once she took a deep breath to catch her breath, the wet cloth towel was placed over her face again.

The torture continued.

Over and over again.

She thought she was going to die each time.

The pain of not being able to breathe was so painful that it drove one to madness.

…

When she recovered her consciousness again, she was already lying outside the side door of the palace, with her tunic thrown over her body.

She had no strength to move and struggled to raise her eyelids, but her vision was endless darkness.

The side door alley became a large tomb, burying her whole person.

It felt like there was only her in the world.

There was nothing she could rely on, nothing to rely on.

There were pains and tears that she must taste herself.

She must suffer regardless of how unbearable the torture.

No one would ever sigh for her.

No one would ever give her a trace of pity.

Fu Yuzheng did not know how long she had been lying down before she could move her blood-stained fingers.

She slowly pulled the outer shirt over her body, wrapped herself tightly, braced herself to get up, stumbled, and moved in the direction of the royal residence.

In the past, the carriage could reach the place in a quarter of an hour, but she did not know how long she had walked.

She just felt that her exhales brought out a numbing pain in her body. The whole world in front of her was spinning and shaking.

It wasn’t until the palace lantern of the Nanling Palace appeared in front of her eyes that she walked to the corner with one last breath. Fu Yuzheng leaned against the wall and slowly slid down with a smile.

How nice. At least after the torture, she still had a place to go.

Liu Zhixia returned home late again today.

When he first entered the Imperial Academy, his teachers’ teachings were quite different from that of the previous academy, and their academic insights were even more unique.

In order to catch up with the lessons as soon as possible, he stayed in the lecture room to discuss the lessons with his teacher, so when walked out of the Imperial Academy, he realized that it was already so late.

The whole avenue from the Imperial Academy to the King of Nanling residence was empty, except for the moon and stars in the sky shrouded with a faint halo.

In October, the temperature of the autumn night has begun to drop. There was a refreshing chill, and the night dew began to form.

The Nanling King’s carriage was still waiting outside, so he boarded it and went straight to the king’s residence.

Within this period, his time at the Imperial Academy remained calm and uneventful.

Perhaps because everyone knew that he lived in the residence of the King of Nanling and he was covered by the King’s prestige. His teachers were all polite to him and were willing to answer any questions.

Some of his classmates despised poor students, but they didn’t show too much in front of him. As for some people’s petty tricks, he could still cope with them.

In this way, he did gain a lot of convenience and saved a lot of trouble because of the palace.

At least compared to other poor students in the academy. 

He has personally witnessed how noble children bullied poor students in the Imperial Academy, but he has not suffered that kind of humiliation.

He inexplicably thought of what Fu Yuzheng said to him, and she proved to be right.

She said at that time that if she were him, she would borrow the power of the royal family; she would beg for it, so that she could get better treatment, get more resources, and be able to reach her goal faster.

He still could picture her appearance when she uttered these vividly – her cold face, her wide eyes, and her bearing was naturally brilliant.

“Young Master Liu, we’ve arrived.”

The coachman’s reminder pulled back Liu Zhixia’s thoughts.

He got off the carriage and said thanks. He was just about to step into the king’s palace when, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pair of embroidered shoes in the dark corner.

His view was blocked by the corner of the wall, but he still could guess that someone had fallen there.

Liu Zhixia frowned, turned his feet, and walked in that direction.

When he got closer, he immediately sniffed a rusty smell in the air.

It was blood!

Liu Zhixia sped up once more, and when his vision was no longer blocked, he found that there was indeed a person lying on the ground in the corner – a woman. The upper half of her body was covered in the shadows, and her face was covered by her dishevelled hair, making him unable to see her appearance. 

However, the bloodstains were still shocking in the dim light!

Then Lu Zhixia’s line of sight fell on the woman’s outer shirt. A vague sense of familiarity made his eyes shrink. He no longer cared about anything else and went forward quickly to help her up. 

He quickly picked her up and plucked away the messy hair covering her face.

Fu Yuzheng! It was really her!

How could it be her!

She was all wounded, all in a mess, all bloody…

His eyes turned heavy as he picked up the woman and ran quickly to the royal residence.

When Liu Zhixia barged into the Shengxiao courtyard with the woman in his arms, Liu Yusheng was lying on the desk to conceive her plan, sharing a corner of the desk with Feng Qingbai.

Because she was so focused, she was unaware that it was past her bedtime.

“Nannan, come and take a look. Miss Fu has been seriously injured!”

At this time, he didn’t care about breaking into his sister’s bedroom at night, not to mention why Feng Qingbai was still in his sister’s room at this hour. The breathing of the woman in his arms was already very weak, and he couldn’t delay.

Liu Yusheng saw the bloody person in his elder brother’s arms at a glance, quickly tossed down her brush, and stood up.

“Brother, put her on my bed. You two go out first, and by the way, order someone to bring hot water.”

Liu Yusheng drove the two big men out of the room, closed the door, and went back to the bed. She looked at the woman on the bed, and her eyes flickered darkly.

She couldn’t imagine that this bloody woman in front of her was the one she had been joking with on the carriage this morning.

The vividness was still in front of her eyes, but the next moment, she turned into this state.

She started to cut and peel off the woman’s outer clothing along with her undergarments, then she gasped.

The woman’s back skin was lacerated and bloody without a piece of skin intact! Whiplash wounds covered her all over!

Even the depths of her white bones were visible!

Moreover, her right finger bones have also been stepped on into a fracture. The traces of skin abrasion caused by the sole of a shoe were still there!

These were all visible to the naked eye, and she still had no clue of the invisible.

What kind of torture had Fu Yuzheng gone through without them knowing?!
She dipped a clean cotton ball into some potion and squeezed it into the woman’s lips to protect her life first.

She waited for the hot water to be brought and wiped the blood clots and blood stains on her back clean. Only then did Liu Yusheng proceed to deal with her wounds.

Without stint, she directly used diluted Spiritual Spring Water in parts.

Otherwise, she was bound to have scars on her body.

After completing everything, Liu Yusheng pulled down the curtain of the carved wooden bed to make sure no one could peek inside and went out of the room.

Liu Zhixia and Feng Qingbai were both there, right at the door.

Feng Qingbai’s face was light and unreadable, but Liu Zhixia’s brow was furrowed, and he was brimming with anger and worry all over.

As soon as she saw Liu Yusheng come out, Liu Zhixia immediately greeted her, “Nannan, how are her injuries?”

“It’s been taken care of. She’s still in a coma, so let her rest here tonight. Let’s wait until she wakes up for anything.” After a pause, Liu Yusheng said, “You guys go back to your rooms to rest for now. I’ll just watch over here. There should be no big problem.”

For an ordinary doctor, dealing with such a large area of serious wounds, the most dreaded thing was that the injured patient would have a fever and wound infection.

But that kind of situation wouldn’t happen to her. Thus, they could just wait for Fu Yuzheng to wake up.

She exchanged a look with Feng Qingbai. In fact, without the need for Fu Yuzheng to say, she could also vaguely guess the cause of her injury.