On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 264 - : Getting Close with Pictures
Chapter 264 -264: Getting Close with Pictures
So, they summoned Jian Lecheng to the Eastern Palace in the middle of the night.
Jian Lecheng was about to go to sleep when someone grabbed him by the collar and brought him before Ye Yiheng, and he couldn’t help but yawn.
“I command you to set off immediately, head to Linqing Pavilion, and you must find the Divine Doctor!”
Hearing this, Jian Lecheng suddenly felt wide awake.
“Your Highness, I am not skilled in martial arts,” he said, “searching for the Divine Doctor may involve some complications.”
Ye Yiheng simply said indifferently, “Choose a few men from the Dark Guard Bureau. You and they shall go to Linqing Pavilion together, and take ten thousand gold with you.”
“I obey the command!” Jian Lecheng bowed respectfully.
With that being said, the Crown Prince must have the desire to live on. So long as the Crown Prince wished to continue living, he, as a loyal subject, would say and do anything to support the Crown Prince!
After all, if the Crown Prince lives, he, his attendant, gets to live!
That same night, Jian Lecheng, carrying the ten thousand gold as medical fees, set off on his journey.
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The following day was the sixteenth of September.
From early in the morning, Ye Yiheng was thinking about finding an excuse to seek out Leng Yu Yan.
After much thought, he couldn’t come up with a convincing reason.
Eunuch Song Guo, who was following him, saw the Crown Prince pacing back and forth in his bedroom for a long time, and offered a suggestion, “Your Highness, the Commandery Princess started attending Imperial College yesterday. You can just go there directly. As the Crown Prince, who would dare not meet you?”
“That makes sense.”
Ye Yiheng, having put on his eye veil with the assistance of Eunuch Song Guo, rode with Mo Chen and Ruofeng; the master and servants four in total went to Imperial College.
By the time they arrived, Leng Yu Yan, in her role as calligraphy master, was teaching a calligraphy class to the students.
Outside the academy building, the Sacrificial Officer asked with a smile, “Your Highness, are you here to find the Commandery Princess?”
Ye Yiheng, hearing Leng Yu Yan lecturing inside the building, didn’t respond to the Sacrificial Officer’s question for a moment.
Eunuch Song Guo replied with a smile, “The Crown Prince is indeed here to see the Commandery Princess.”
The Sacrificial Officer gestured respectfully with his hand, “Please move to the study, Your Highness. I will call the Commandery Princess to you immediately.”
Ye Yiheng and the others were led to the study by the Sacrificial Officer’s page, while the Sacrificial Officer himself entered the academy building.
Leng Yu Yan, who was deeply engrossed in her lecture, saw the Sacrificial Officer come in and put down her brush to ask in a calm voice, “Do you have something to discuss, Sacrificial Officer?”
She disliked interruptions during her teaching, and the Sacrificial Officer was well aware of that.
His presence meant there was an important matter.
“There is indeed an urgent matter, Commandery Princess. Please come to my study immediately!”
Leng Yu Yan nodded, assigned a few characters to the students, and then followed the Sacrificial Officer out.
After half the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the two arrived at the corridor outside the study.
The study was quieter than usual. Leng Yu Yan was cautious and asked the Sacrificial Officer sideway, “Is there a distinguished guest?”
“There is a distinguished guest.” The Sacrificial Officer walked briskly ahead and gestured for her to enter.
Leng Yu Yan took a deep breath and stepped forward, but before her foot touched the ground inside the threshold, she drew back.
In the study stood someone she thought was someone else; it was him.
What did he want with her? They were now strangers; there was no need for them to meet again!
Ye Yiheng had just heard her footsteps; now he caught the subtle fragrance that was uniquely hers.
The scent paused and then receded.
“Where is your etiquette, Commandery Princess?”
Hearing the clear, resonant tone of his voice, Leng Yu Yan stood firmly at the door of the study, extended her arm, and bowed with her hands clasped, “Beilan pays her respects to Your Highness.”
Her voice was detached and distant.
Ye Yiheng’s thin lips slightly curved; she indeed had become estranged from him.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard her say, “Eunuch Song Guo, I must trouble you to convey this to His Highness, I, Beilan, have teaching duties to attend to, so I must take my leave.”
With those words, she nodded a greeting and quickly left.
Ye Yiheng’s right hand, clasped behind him, tightened.
Eunuch Song Guo looked at his master with difficulty. Despite the Crown Prince being right there, the Commandery Princess asked him to relay a message—had the gulf grown so wide between them?
Mo Chen and Ruofeng exchanged a look, their eyes silently communicating.
Mo Chen made a face: “What’s going on?”
Ruofeng rolled his eyes: “You ask me, but who do I ask?”
“Your Highness, please forgive me!” The Sacrificial Officer said with an embarrassed smile, “In the Imperial College, there is only one calligraphy master for the Commandery Princess, and you have not returned for several months. The teaching tasks are somewhat arduous now.”
Ye Yiheng remained silent and left the study on his own.
The first attempt to make an acquaintance had failed.
On the way back to the Eastern Palace, Song Guo summarized, “Your Highness, perhaps our timing was not right, as the Princess was busy. Busy people might be tired, and so…”
Ye Yiheng closed his eyes to rest and decided to try again tomorrow.
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On the seventeenth of September, towards the end of Si hour, Ye Yiheng visited the dining hall of the Imperial College.
He had Song Guo, Mo Chen, and Ruofeng look around the dining hall a few times, only to find Leng Yu Yan’s presence was nowhere to be found.
The students who were dining stopped their chopsticks and stood up to pay respects to Ye Yiheng.
Ye Yiheng lifted his hand, “Please, everyone, be seated.”
The others all returned to their seats, but Wei Ruili came over, respectfully saying, “Crown Prince, are you here looking for my sister Yu Yan?”
“Sister Yu Yan?”
Ye Yiheng frowned slightly, a chill spreading across his face.
Song Guo asked, “May I ask where the Princess is at this moment?”
Wei Ruili smiled and replied, “My sister Yu Yan has gone to Xinya Academy to dine with Lai Jiajia.”
Even the Crown Prince was unaware of this; clearly, his close relationship with sister Yu Yan was not ordinary to her.
Leaning on Song Guo’s arm, Ye Yiheng headed towards Xinya Academy.
When Leng Yu Yan heard that the Crown Prince had come to the academy, she worried and set down her chopsticks.
Lai Jiajia asked in a low voice, “Sister, what’s wrong?”
“I don’t want to see him.”
Lai Jiajia also put down her chopsticks, stood up, and took Leng Yu Yan’s hand, “Sister, if you wish to avoid the Crown Prince, I have a good place.”
“Where?”
“You’ll know once we get there,” Lai Jiajia said, somewhat embarrassed.
It was only upon arrival that Leng Yu Yan realized, covering her nose with her index finger.
Lai Jiajia had brought her to a place where, during class, one would need to hold a “Respectfully entering and exiting” sign to enter!
Mo Chen, with his sharp eyes, saw Leng Yu Yan being pulled by Lai Jiajia towards a house.
“Your Highness, the Princess is there!”
Ye Yiheng was about to go over when Song Guo stopped him.
“Your Highness, that is the ladies’ changing room.”
Upon hearing this, Ye Yiheng’s ears turned red, and he quickly stopped in his tracks.
Another attempt at getting close, and yet another failure.
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On the eighteenth of September, as the academy was dismissing.
Leng Yu Yan led her horse out and immediately saw a certain person’s ostentatious horse carriage, brazenly stopped at the entrance to the Imperial College. She deliberately took a wide detour to avoid being accused of lacking propriety.
The carriage drivers Mo Chen and Ruofeng saw Leng Yu Yan get on her horse and seemed to flee from their Highness as swiftly as possible.
The two exchanged glances and decided to report the situation truthfully to the Crown Prince inside the carriage.
Upon learning the news, Ye Yiheng, drawing from the experience of the past few days, decided to be more persistent.
“Follow her.”
“Alright!”
Mo Chen cracked the whip, and the carriage followed in the direction Leng Yu Yan had left.
Leng Yu Yan had only just returned to the Prince Zhenbei Mansion when Ye Yiheng showed up soon after.
Someone had followed her all the way from the front courtyard of the Prince Mansion to the bamboo forest path. Leng Yu Yan quickened her pace, muttering to herself, why would a blind man, leaning on Song Guo’s arm, walk so fast?
“Commandery Princess, please wait!” Song Guo called out.
Reluctantly, she stopped and greeted, “I have seen Your Highness.”
Ye Yiheng cleared his throat, “Dispense with the formalities.”
“If there’s nothing else, Your Highness, I shall return to my room.”
“I am here to continue our cooperation.”
