Lord, Your Immortal Plant has Slipped Away Again

Chpt: 29

In the following few days, Ye Zi continued to ignore him. But at dusk, someone had sent a message that Commandery Princess Changning had woken up.

Gu Yan asked: "What did she say? Did she say this Prince pushed her in?"

The person who came to deliver the message was the eunuch serving Empress Dowager and upon hearing this, he almost fell to his knees in shock: "No, the Commandery Princess didn't say that. The Commandery Princess hasn't said a word since she woke up, no matter what others ask, she........she wouldn't respond."

Gu Yan was a little surprised since he was ready to take the blame. However, he didn't expect this blame to never come.

What was that person thinking?

Gu Yan sent away the little eunuch and headed back into the inner room. Ye Zi's flower pot was placed on the small table behind the screen so that he could hear their words just now.

Gu Yan sat down at the table and looked at him with his chin propped up: "You still don't plan to talk to me?"

Ye Zi struggled a bit before obediently answering: "......What do you plan to do?"

Gu Yan didn't take it to heart: "What else can I do, since Changning didn't accuse me, then the matter has nothing to do with me. Why should I still think about what to do next?"

Ye Zi lowered his head and said nothing.

Sometimes he couldn't figure out what Gu Yan's real thoughts were; why did it look as if he didn't care about anything?

If it was the person he remembered, there was absolutely no way he could have held his tongue like this.

Ye Zi asked again: "How is it in Chang'an?"

Gu Yan smiled contemptuously: "I heard that Wen Yi was so angry that he almost came from Chang'an to fight me, but was stopped by his father. There is no news from the palace, they are probably still waiting and watching."

Now the focus was all on Changning alone, everyone was waiting for her decision.

But, she didn't say anything. The more silent, the more unsettling. Ye Zi pondered for a moment, vaguely realizing something.

As the night was getting darker, Gu Yan went to rest early. After the man fell asleep, Ye Zi crawled out of the flower pot and quietly jumped out of the bedroom window.

He avoided the guards and quickly found the Empress's bedchamber.

As there were many guards outside the Empress's bedchamber, Ye Zi leaped onto the beam of the room and felt his way into the chamber through a gap in the beam.

As expected, there were no palace attendants in the bedchamber. Ye Zi leaned over to look into the inner room and could vaguely see a thin figure lying on the bed and beyond the curtains. Wen Zhi opened her eyes, staring blankly at the curtain above her head, and the last vibrancy in her eyes had disappeared.

Ye Zi was about to get closer when the person on the bed suddenly turned her head to look in his direction. Ye Zi hurriedly retreated to the beam in fright.

Suddenly, a woman's voice came from outside the main hall.

"Zhi'er, have you thought about it yet?" The Empress came out from the shadows.

It was already late at night and she was still wearing a gorgeous palace dress with exquisite makeup, contrasting with the haggard person on the bed who had no makeup.

The Empress walked up to Wen Zhi, held her hand, and said in a warm voice: "Auntie knows that your father and I had pushed too hard earlier and it was our fault. Auntie can choose to ignore your disobedience, but why do you refuse to listen to us?"