Peony Pond.
Large numbers of Military Soldiers, and even Returning Experts, searched and stood guard along both banks of the Huai River, rescuing the wounded.
The Commandery Princess's Manor's pleasure boat headed back into the city, escorted personally by elders including Sword Addict Li Jing.
Inside the Boat Tower, in the Commandery Princess's bedchamber, a faint smell of blood mingled with the scent of medicine.
Dressed in a ruqun, Lin Zisu leaned over the bedside, her exquisitely sculpted face intent. Her fair little hands held a gold needle as she carefully stitched a wound that sank more than an inch into his chest.
Xie Jinhuan lay on white sheets, the blood wiped from his body to reveal the bruises left by battle. Qi Vein-Locking Silver Needles were inserted into his forehead and crucial qi veins; the sight of his battered body was shocking.
Commandery Princess Changning stood beside the bed, none of her usual indolent arrogance remaining. Worry and pity filled her face, and she even breathed carefully for fear of disturbing the physician.
Linghu Qingmo had been drinking and fooling around with Xie Jinhuan just moments earlier. In the blink of an eye, Xie Jinhuan had swallowed a fierce drug without hesitation and gambled his life charging onto the bandits' boat for a fight to the death, returning with only half his life left.
Now, seeing Xie Jinhuan like this, Linghu Qingmo's eyes reddened, and regret filled his heart:
If only I'd gone with him to relieve himself. Letting him touch and kiss me a few times would've been better than letting him run off alone to risk his life...
Though Lin Wanyi was a doctor, she specialized only in gynecology and poisoning. She was now mixing various medicines by the bed and passing them to Zisu, the operating