Chapter 707: Unexpected Recovery (1/2)

Yu Xiaocao stroked her face and valiantly squeezed out a smile, “Silly lass, I’m seriously injured and can’t even move much now. Dying alongside with me would just be a waste. I’ve already agreed to Hou Xiaoliang’s request to allow you to marry him. A married out maidservant is like spilled water...in the future, you need to enjoy your life with Hou Xiaoliang ah.”

She panted a few times before she continued, “Tell my final words to the prince: The fact that I wasn’t able to accompany him to the very end was my bad. In the next life, I will still become his wife, so he needs to be able to spot me in the crowd in the blink of an eye. Otherwise, I’ll punish him to kneel on a washboard and won’t let him into...my bed!”

“No! Young Miss, Wutong won’t marry anyone! Wutong will stay with you, so don’t abandon me! Who will take care of you in the other world? You’ve once complimented me, saying that I’m the most considerate and the person who understands you the most. Don’t abandon me!” Wutong noticed that her mistress’s breath was getting more and more shallow and didn’t know what to do anymore. Tears flowed down her face and dripped onto the floor.

A slight bit of moisture appeared at the corners of Yu Xiaocao’s eyes. She murmured in an almost inaudible voice, “Go and find His Highness. Get him to save me.”

When she was certain Wutong had understood her secret signal, Yu Xiaocao suddenly angrily scolded, “Stop saying such things ah! In the past, you were afraid of hard work and didn’t want to leave the capital to go to the small town Tanggu to serve me when I was still an ordinary farmer’s girl. At that time, you lost this princess consort’s trust! If it weren’t for the fact that you’ve been pretty obedient these past few years, I would have sold you off long ago!!”

“Just look, you’ve been with me longer compared to Hechun and Xichun, yet I gave the important responsibility of managing ‘Blossoming Beauty’, the dessert and pastry shop, and the flower tea business to them. As for you, you’re just a maidservant who serves me on a day to day basis. Don’t you understand now ah? You only say such touching things to comfort yourself!!” Yu Xiaocao scolded her as she also gave her a silent signal through her eyes.

“But…” Wutong wiped some tears off her face and was still reluctant to leave her mistress.

“There are no buts! This princess consort gets angrier the more I think of it. I don’t want to see you anymore!” Yu Xiaocao used all of her strength in one last snarl, “Get out——”

“Tsk tsk tsk! Such deep feelings between a servant and her master!” Eunuch Yuan smiled maliciously and suddenly pulled Wutong into his hands. He placed his left hand under her chin and snarled at Yu Xiaocao, “Give me the Prolonging Life Pills, otherwise...your good maidservant’s neck will be snapped in two by me!”

“Wring away ah! In any case, neither of us would be let go by you after you get your hands on the pills. Since we’re going to die anyway, I’ll make sure to die without leaving you what you want!” Yu Xiaocao picked one Prolonging Life Pill and slowly placed it into her mouth. Under the alarmed eyes of Eunuch Yuan, she leisurely chewed on it before swallowing while enduring the pain in her chest. Then she did the same to the second pill.

Just as she was about to place the last pill into her mouth, Eunuch Yuan screamed in anguish, “Stop!! Don’t swallow any more, I’ll let this maidservant go!”

It took a full seven weeks, forty-nine days, to make these three Prolonging Life Pills. If all of them were swallowed by her, he didn’t know how long it would take to get the ingredients again and wait for that bitch to recover from her wounds! At that time, he also couldn’t guarantee that the situation wouldn’t have changed either.

Wutong, who had just escaped from the clutch of death, had been thrown out unceremoniously by a black-clothed man. She looked back to stare at her young miss again as if she was trying to say, “Young Miss, please hold on. I will go find His Highness right now to save you!”

Time seemed to have stopped flowing and was creeping by incredibly slowly. Yu Xiaocao discovered that her grip on life was slowly becoming looser. At this time, she didn’t even have the strength to place the remaining pill into her mouth.

This life had been picked up by her coincidentally. She had family who loved her and had fortuitously encountered a man who understood her, deeply loved, and pampered her to the heavens. It was worth it! The only thing she regretted was that she was unable to accompany him to the very end and wasn’t able to help him birth a few beautiful and adorable children. She wasn't able to see whether he would still be as stunningly beautiful in old age...if there was another life ahead of her, she hoped that she would be able to encounter him again…

Yu Xiaocao felt her consciousness slowly slip away drop by drop…

Eunuch Yuan had sensed that her breath was becoming more and more shallow. When he thought of the fact that he had lost two pills for nothing, he wanted to scream in fury, ‘Even if you die, I will make sure to rip your body into shreds so I can vent my temper a bit.’

He stepped closer...in Yu XIaocao’s blurry eyes, she could see a pair of large feet slowly heading over towards her. Was her life about to end like this?

Just as Eunuch Yuan’s hand was about to grip around her delicate neck, a beam of golden light shot through the thick wall of the hidden room. With a rumble, the golden light transformed into an elegant young man who was currently pushing Eunuch Yuan away from Yu Xiaocao.

If Yu Xiaocao was still conscious, she would have immediately been happily surprised to discover that the person standing in front of her was the little divine stone in its human youth form.

[Psh——this immortal was only gone for a few days yet you managed to land yourself in such a precarious situation? It looks like this divine stone...that’s not right, it’s this immortal, can only stay by your side in the future, keeping an eye on you. It’s so exhausting having a master who only knows how to get herself into trouble!] The little divine stone took out a pill that he had shamelessly begged off of the Goddess of Spirits and stuffed it into Xiaocao’s mouth, who had just stopped breathing. He then placed his actual self, the multicolored stone, back on her wrist.

Eunuch Yuan avariciously eyed the jade bottle inside the little divine stone’s hands. His intuition told him that this bottle of pills was even more valuable and rare than the Prolonging Life Pill in his hands. Those pills would have great use for him.