Chapter 241: Chapter 241: Husband and Lao Liu are Different

The Sixth Prince spoke in an unsatisfied tone, “I need to remind you, even though I’ve granted you power, you still need to respect me and not call me Lao Liu!”

That nickname was used by his Father only in the Imperial Palace.

Xiang Ying glanced at him, “Sometimes it slips out naturally, just like how I call Jie Chen ‘my husband’, they’re both terms of endearment.”

Jie Chen’s deep eyes turned towards her.

That day on the bed, she clearly said ‘husband’ meant ‘spouse’, so why had it become a nickname now?

The Sixth Prince let out a cold laugh, “I thought ‘Lao Liu’ was bad enough, but ‘husband’ sounds even worse, like an old eunuch in the palace. It seems Jie Chen isn’t as liked by you as I thought.”

Xiang Ying silently looked at him with an expression that resembled looking at a big idiot.

“Forget it, if that’s what you think, there’s nothing I can do.”

As someone from the apocalypse, she couldn’t explain to someone from ancient times what the word ‘husband’ represented.

Xiang Ying gathered her fox fur around her, “Let’s go, weren’t we going to treat your illness? We must hurry, or else your organs will fail, and by then, neither medicine nor stone will help, and there’s nothing I can do.”

She walked ahead, with the Sixth Prince and Jie Chen following.

The exasperation that the Sixth Prince had just suffered from Xiang Ying was all taken out on Jie Chen.

Now the two of them fell a few steps behind, and in a voice filled with malice, the Sixth Prince sneered, “Husband, such a nice word, suits you.”

Jie Chen raised his eyebrows in displeasure.

The word ‘husband’ was what he called Xiang Ying during the joyous moments in bed.

She clearly called it out with emotion and sweetness.

However, how could it sound so unpleasant coming from the Sixth Prince’s mouth?

Seeing Jie Chen’s terrible expression, the Sixth Prince thought he had hit him where it hurt.

He repeatedly called him “husband, husband,” with cold mockery and disdain on his face.

Jie Chen repressed the urge to beat him to death and said, “Xiang Ying told me that ‘husband’ means ‘spouse.'”

“Lao Liu, you’re not even as good as me because in her eyes, your name is like that of a dog.”

Saying this, Jie Chen ignored the Sixth Prince’s frozen expression and quickly caught up with Xiang Ying’s steps.

When the Sixth Prince came back to his senses, a series of curses burst forth from his mouth.

“Jie Chen! You’re calling whom a dog? Do you not see the hierarchy of respect and seniority?”

He called out twice, and just as he thought to catch up and argue, he suddenly felt dizzy.

With a thud, the Sixth Prince fell straight into the snow.

The guards who had been following behind panicked, rushing over to help him up.

“Your Highness!” “Your Highness has fainted!”

Xiang Ying turned around, approached the Sixth Prince, and checked his breathing.

“Tsk,” she chuckled with pursed red lips, “He’s not dead, what’s the fuss about? Fainting is normal, what good person with a fever of forty degrees would still be energetically knocking down doors? Carry him back.”

She had accidentally touched the Sixth Prince’s skin, and it was burning even hotter than Jie Chen’s worst moment.

This Lao Liu deserves it, if he hadn’t harbored those evil thoughts to harm Jie Chen, he wouldn’t have ended up harming himself.

When Xiang Ying led the way back to the Martial Arts Arena, the soldiers all showed disbelief.

Someone shouted, “The elder princess is back! She’s back unharmed!”

Tao Xue, with her three little ones, couldn’t wait to burst out of the room.

Indeed, they saw that familiar figure in the snow.

“Mother!” Xiang Xiuxiu ran up excitedly and threw herself into Xiang Ying’s arms.

Tao Xue, with the other two children, also ran over and tightly hugged Xiang Ying.

“Your Highness, you’ve finally returned, this servant has been so worried these past few days without you! Look at you, you seem thinner… Oh, not at all.”

Tao Xue sized up Xiang Ying seriously and noticed that not only had she not lost weight, but instead, her complexion was rosy and radiant.

Even more beautiful than before she left.

Xiang Ying snorted with laughter: “Could I possibly mistreat myself?”

While she was talking, she saw Lin Lingxiang helping Xiang Rongrong along, limping over.

Xiang Ying’s eyes turned cold, and she immediately went forward to greet them.

“What happened?” She looked down to see Xiang Rongrong’s leg wrapped with thick cloth.

They had no bandages, and to stop the bleeding, they could only tear clothes into pieces, tying them around the wound on her leg.

When Xiang Rongrong saw Xiang Ying, she suddenly burst into tears with grievance.

“Big sister, after you left, Xiang Qianqian brought the Sixth Prince to pick a fight, deliberately making things difficult for us, I got whipped by their people!”

“Not only me, but also the Crown Prince, he was also beaten with twenty lashes.”

Lin Lingxiang’s expression was grave: “She must think that the elder princess would never come back, that’s why she’s so rampant. But I heard, she didn’t end up well either, her face got scalded with blisters, she was just over there screaming miserably, but no one cared for her.”

Even the Military Doctor ignored her, Xiang Qianqian truly incurred the wrath of the masses.

Xiang Ying’s expression was as cold and frosty as ever: “I understand, once I get the chance, I will take care of her.”

She first instructed the guards to carry the Sixth Prince back to the room.

Upon pushing the door open, Xiang Qianqian hurriedly greeted them: “Your Highness, you’re back, you… big sister?!”

Her eyes were as if seeing a ghost, staring at Xiang Ying, eyes wide open.

How could Xiang Ying still be alive and return? And together with the Sixth Prince at that?

Xiang Ying’s icy gaze swept across Xiang Qianqian’s face.

She wore a veil covering the lower half of her face; Lin Lingxiang had just mentioned she was disfigured, likely on this lower half of her face.

Xiang Ying stepped forward, her gaze indifferent: “I heard that in my absence, you had people beat up Rongrong and brother?”

Perhaps her aura was too terrifying, Xiang Qianqian staggered back in fright.

“Big sister, I… I was just following His Highness’ orders.”

She had just finished speaking when Xiang Ying reached out, grabbing her cheek.

Precisely pressing on those blisters, Xiang Qianqian cried out in pain, struggling violently. However, Xiang Ying was forceful, and there was no escape for her.

In the end, she could only cry and beg for mercy: “Big sister, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have hit them, please calm down, I am your sister too!”

“I don’t have a sister like you.” Xiang Ying flung her away, and Xiang Qianqian fell to the ground, sobbing and crying.

Xiang Ying looked at her: “All along the way, you’ve been up to mischief, causing trouble. I’ve never liked to make things difficult for girls, but you have repeatedly provoked me on my lines of principle.”

“Xiang Qianqian, get out. Live your life with your tail between your legs, and if I see you misbehave again, don’t blame me for killing you.”

Xiang Qianqian screamed in terror, scrambled up, and ran outside.

The blisters on her face were squeezed and broke, oozing yellow fluid; she disregarded them, knowing only to run far away, otherwise Xiang Ying might really kill her!

After she left, Xiang Ying took out a prescription, instructing the guards to find a way to gather the herbs.

With only the unconscious Sixth Prince, Jie Chen, and Xiang Ying left in the room, Jie Chen approached.

“From what I know of Lao Liu, if you heal him, he will surely bite back.”

Xiang Ying nodded: “I know, hence, I have no plans to cure him all at once.”

Jie Chen raised his eyebrows.

He had taken Xiang Ying’s medicine and fully recovered in just a couple of days.

Judging from Xiang Ying’s tone, she intended to drag out the Sixth Prince’s illness.

Just then, a rush of hurried footsteps approached from afar and stopped at the doorway.

Skinny Monkey gasped: “It’s bad, the City Garrison Mansion has been occupied by those rebellious plague-infested citizens. They are now demanding that sister-in-law come forward and talk with them!”