"Waaaaah!"
Chu Lianxin's tears fell like beads from a broken string.
She wanted to know what happened too!
She really couldn't understand how she had woken up like this after just having a good sleep.
Seeing his wife weeping, Jiang Yucheng would have stepped forward to comfort her long ago.
After all, how many men can resist the allure of a beautiful woman with tears streaming down her face?
But now, Chu Lianxin's crying not only lacks beauty, but the tears also make the thin silk cloth stick to her uneven face, making her look even uglier and more unsightly.
However, Chu Lianxin was, after all, his most beloved woman, and she bore him two wonderful children.
Seeing her so heartbroken, Jiang Yucheng felt terrible.
So he whispered comfortingly, "Okay! Stop crying, crying won't solve anything!"
"The most important thing right now is to tell me what exactly happened, and then we can decide what to do!"
"My lord, I don't know what happened. I was fine when I rested last night, but when I woke up this morning... my face turned like this, sob sob sob...!" Chu Lianxin started sobbing again as she spoke.
"Someone, quickly go and fetch a doctor to examine the lady."
Jiang Yucheng was annoyed by her crying and couldn't stand looking at her face.
He had no choice but to turn around and sit down in a chair, hoping to avoid seeing it and getting annoyed.
Not long after, a servant brought a doctor over.
"This humble subject pays his respects to Your Excellency!" The doctor was about to bow when Jiang Yucheng interrupted him: "Go quickly and examine the lady."
The doctor dared not delay, and carrying his medical kit, he walked a few steps to Chu Lianxin and knelt down on one knee: "Madam, please forgive me!"
As he spoke, he reached out and untied the stained, mottled silk cloth from her face.
Even though the doctor was mentally prepared, he was still startled by the face under the silk cloth and gasped.
In all his years of medical practice, he had never seen a face so badly damaged that its original features were completely unrecognizable.
Chu Lianxin's eyes gleamed with urgency as she looked at the doctor like a drowning person grasping at a straw: "How is it? Is there any cure for my face?"
"What happened to Madam's face?" Jiang Yucheng asked with concern.
The doctor withdrew his hand from taking the pulse and said to Jiang Yucheng, "Your Excellency, I am not knowledgeable enough to diagnose the illness, but judging from the appearance, it should be a bite from some kind of insect."
"Just tell me if it can be cured!" Jiang Yucheng said, frowning.
"This... I am powerless to help. Please, sir, find someone more skilled!" The doctor shook his head.
Upon hearing this, Chu Lianxin collapsed to the ground as if her bones had been removed, her face ashen.
Jiang Yucheng waved for the doctor to leave and gently comforted him, "Lianxin, don't be too sad. If an ordinary doctor can't cure you, I'll find someone to pull strings and ask the imperial physicians to come and see you. They are highly skilled, and I believe your face... will definitely recover."
Chu Lianxin stopped crying and looked up at the man, her eyes sparkling with joy: "Husband, you must invite the imperial physician!"
Jiang Yucheng was once again faced up close with this uneven face, which was covered in yellowish-white substance, and he felt nauseous again.
Seeing the disgust in his eyes, Chu Lianxin hurriedly took a brand new silk cloth and covered her face again.
Jiang Yucheng then felt a little better.
Just as the two were talking, Jiang Ruzhu rushed over.
"Mother, I heard something happened in the main courtyard. What happened?"
She was already sleepy because of her pregnancy, and she had just woken up when she heard that something had happened at the main hospital.
When she asked the servants, they hesitated and couldn't explain what was wrong, so she rushed over in a hurry.
"Why are you here? This is none of your business. Go back quickly!" Chu Lianxin saw her daughter coming and was worried that Jiang Yucheng would find out that she was pregnant, so she hurriedly wanted her to go back to her own courtyard.
Unfortunately, Jiang Ruzhu didn't understand her good intentions and kept asking what had happened.
Jiang Yucheng finally spoke up to answer her: "Your mother's face was bitten by some kind of insect last night, and she's heartbroken right now."
"She's been bitten by bugs! Quickly, let your daughter see how badly she's been bitten!" Jiang Ruzhu said, reaching out to remove the silk cloth from her mother's face.
"No!" Chu Lianxin quickly dodged her hand.
Jiang Ruzhu frowned and asked in confusion, "Why? I just wanted to see how serious the injury was. If it's not serious, I have some antiseptic ointment in my room. I can apply it and maybe it will be fine."
Chu Lianxin only focused on crying and didn't answer.
Seeing that his second daughter was determined to know, Jiang Yucheng had no choice but to explain on her behalf: "Your mother's face is badly injured, and it can't be cured by just a simple antiseptic ointment."
Hearing this, Jiang Ruzhu became even more anxious. Worried about her mother, she untied the silk cloth without further ado.
"Ah—! How could this happen!"
Caught completely off guard, she screamed, her face turning deathly pale.
She was so frightened that her stomach was cramping and she involuntarily put her hands on her stomach, reflexively gagging.
Seeing this, Chu Lianxin quickly told her to go back to her own courtyard.
Jiang Yucheng glanced at his daughter's slightly protruding belly and asked with a puzzled look, "Has Ruzhu gained some weight recently?"
The mother and daughter turned deathly pale upon hearing this.
Jiang Ruzhu quickly lowered her hand, which had been rubbing her stomach, and clenched it into a fist nervously inside her wide sleeve.
If her father found out that she was having an affair with her sister's fiancé and was pregnant, he would definitely scold her to death.
Chu Lianxin, forgetting her sadness, forced a smile and tried to smooth things over for her daughter: "...that's right, I've been telling her to eat less, but this little glutton just won't listen!"
When Jiang Yucheng heard her say this, he kindly advised his daughter: "You are about to get engaged, so you should listen to your mother and eat less. It's not good for a daughter to grow too strong. It won't look good at the New Year's Eve banquet."
Jiang Ruzhu's face stiffened. She knew that her father intended for her to become a concubine of one of the princes, but she did not want to be a concubine and only wanted to be the principal wife. This was also the reason why she seduced An Yuanxiu.
In her eyes, being the Heir wife is far more important than the prince's concubine, since no matter whose concubine she was, she would always be suppressed by the principal wife.
You could get killed in the blink of an eye, how could it compare to being the wife of a prince heir!
Although Jiang Ruzhu was unhappy, she put on a well-behaved appearance.
"Your daughter understands and will be more careful in the future."
"Alright, this is none of your business. Go back to your courtyard!" Chu Lianxin said, winking at her daughter to hurry up and leave.
This time, Jiang Ruzhu dared not linger and quickly bowed and left.
After Jiang Ruzhu left, Jiang Yucheng comforted Chu Lianxin and then hurriedly left, making an excuse that he still had official business to attend to.
Watching the man's retreating figure, Chu Lianxin felt a chill in her heart and a deep sorrow.
Indeed, men are all fickle and lustful.
No matter how loving they are on ordinary days, and how many vows they make, the moment the face is ruined, they wish they could grow wings and fly far away.
She drove all the servants out of the house so that no one would see her in his current state.
A person sat sadly in the room, increasingly unable to understand why they had become like this.
Chu Lianxin didn't believe the doctor's claim that she had been bitten by insects at all.
You should know that she herself was always very clean, so the maids who cleaned the house dared not slack off at all.
Not to mention the house is cleaned regularly, even the curtains and bedding are changed daily, so there's absolutely no way there could be any insects.
If it wasn't an insect bite, then what happened?
Just as she was racking her brains trying to figure it out, a figure sneaked into the house.