Chapter 152 - Release (1/2)

The Emperor's thoughts were interrupted when he felt something was odd with Lei Xing. Now that he was fully awake, he realized that Lei Xing's face was looking pale and burning hot. He felt on other parts of her body and found it to be burning hot as well. There was also the weird fact that she was not sweating at all despite being so hot.

The Emperor tried calling to her and shaking her awake but she was completely unresponsive. No reaction at all, not even the usual frown that came with any slight disturbance of her sleep. He became worried and so immediately got up and swiftly put on his outer robe and went to rush out to get help. But then he stopped short of the doors and turned back to the bed and properly covered her body.

He went out to the courtyard and the two men guarding the area quickly came up to him. He instructed them to get Doctor Lou and then went back to the room to wait, while worriedly looking at the unresponsive Lei Xing on the bed.

Doctor Lou quickly arrived after being almost thrown off of his chair by the two men. He begrudgingly walked in while staring daggers at the Emperor.

He was not pleased.

First, Commander An left behind half of the men and ordered them to guard the parameter to ensure the Emperor's safety. Most of them stayed outside, but these two and a few others bullied their way into his little courtyard. To make it worse, they made him run all over the place trying to prevent them from ruining his precious herbs with their stomping feet.

He had already informed the Emperor that he did not like people in his space, but it seemed nobody cared for his opinion. He could not stand the sight of his poor courtyard, so he returned to the pharmacy to sleep and now those two came to disturb him again.

He was really not pleased.

”First, you disrupt my precious little courtyard...and now you can't even let me sleep in peace...” He grumbled as he walked in, but the Emperor was not perturbed by his bad mood and immediately informed, ”There's something wrong with her.”

Doctor Lou glared at him and then walked to the bed and looked at Lei Xing's face. Then he reached a hand down towards her, but the Emperor immediately grabbed his hand and asked with a frown, ”What are you doing?” Lei Xing was still n.a.k.e.d under the blanket and even though Doctor Lou was an old man and a doctor, he was still not entitled to see that.

Doctor Lou squinted at him and explained, ”I need to check her pulse...just her hand.” The Emperor blinked and then went, ”Oh.” He released Doctor Lou's hand, then he brought out Lei Xing's arm from the blanket himself, making sure to properly tuck in the blanket to cover her appropriately and then he held out her wrist to Doctor Lou.

Doctor Lou blankly stared at him for a bit and then he pursed his lips and went about checking her pulse while mumbling under his breath, ”Do you think everyone is like you? I have superb taste and so...a brooder is not my style at all.”

When the Emperor frowned at him, he returned his gaze with raised an eyebrow as if challenging him, then he said, ”It seems you didn't do your job properly...You look so strong...” Then he mumbled under his breath again, ”Turns out all those muscles and reputation was all for show, youngsters these days are so disappointing. Making an old man like me do all the work...”

The Emperor's frown deepened. He did not know what to say in response to that. It was not that he was lacking energy nor was it that he did not want to continue, but Lei Xing was tired. Also, how was he supposed to know that it was not enough when she herself said it was? He looked down at the unconscious Lei Xing. The thought of making love to her unresponsive form was not appealing at all, so he turned back to Doctor Lou to find him looking about the room with a frown.

The Emperor glanced at the clothes strewn about and quickly said, ”I will send people to clean the room for you in the morning.”

Doctor Lou turned back to him and waved a hand, ”No need. They'll just disturb my sleep.”

The Emperor ignored his words and went back to the issue at hand, ”So what do we do now?”

Doctor Lou raised his eyebrows, ”We? You're the one who failed here...”

The Emperor frowned in irritation, ”It's in your bes-”

Doctor Lou rolled his eyes and cut him off, ”Yes, yes I understand...Stay here!” Doctor Lou he barked with a pout and walked towards the doors while mumbling, ”Lack of respect little brat, don't you know it's in your best interest not to get on this old one's bad side? Hmph!”

The Emperor heard his quiet ramblings but was not bothered by it. Despite the old man's oddities and disrespectful behavior, the Emperor did not have any ill feelings towards Doctor Lou, nor did he feel particularly wary of him.