Sometimes, Kang Shi felt pretty helpless, too.
If Shen Tang hadn't been his liege, he would've wanted to report her to the authorities.
All these years, whenever his liege ran into the slightest bit of trouble, she'd grow suspicious and accuse him of jinxing her again, leaving Kang Shi to swallow his bitterness in silence. Faced with his liege having another fit, Kang Shi took a deep breath and forced a stiff, false smile.
"You're worrying too much, my lord."
Kang Shi didn't know how many times he'd suppressed the urge to blow up.
"You have Qi Tian Hong Fu. You'll surely turn misfortune into good fortune."
His kind words earned him a look full of suspicion from his liege, nearly enough to make Kang Shi lose his composure. He'd bet on it: his liege wasn't going to have any bad luck this time. Gao Country had been swallowed up by Kang Country, and its National Fortune absorbed. Surely that could make up for the tiny bit of Qi Yun she'd spent that day?
Heh. Impossible. Absolutely impossible!
Kang Shi was practically ready to pound his chest and write Shen Tang a guarantee.
"...My lord, you can put your mind at ease!"
But that very night, after saying those words, he received terrible news: his liege had choked while eating, vomited nonstop, and fallen unconscious.
Kang Shi, holding a bowl in his left hand and chopsticks in his right: "..."
He stood there dumbfounded for a good while before his ability to speak returned.
He went on eating, making no move to get up. As he used his chopsticks to scoop pickled vegetables from a dish into his bowl, he asked with concern, "Is my lord all right? Have the military physicians seen her?"
Though he'd just been proven wrong,