Before long, Huang Xiao's nose twitched. He had been sleeping like the dead, but now he showed a faint sign of waking.
"Still not waking up?" Zhao Yunya shouted into Huang Xiao's ear.
Huang Xiao jolted and abruptly sat up in bed.
"Ow... why am I so dizzy?" Huang Xiao rubbed his temples, finding his head swimming.
"Huh? Commandery Princess? Why are you here?" Huang Xiao also noticed Zhao Yunya standing beside his bed. Seeing the fury on her face, he was bewildered for a moment.
"Hurry outside the city! Are you going to let Cao Wuxin get his way?" Zhao Yunya snapped.
Though her voice was not as loud as her earlier shout, those words were enough to bring Huang Xiao fully awake in an instant.
"Oh no." The moment the words left his mouth, Huang Xiao flashed out of the room.
"Your clothes..." Zhao Yunya held Huang Xiao's outer robe, but he had already vanished.
Huang Xiao had no time even to dress. Wearing only an undergarment, he raced barefoot through the palace.
Such behavior was practically no different from running naked-and in the Imperial Palace, no less.
In an instant, the Imperial Palace erupted into a chicken-flying, dog-leaping uproar.
By the time the guards received word and hurried over, Huang Xiao had already charged out of the Imperial Palace.
As he raced along, Huang Xiao wished he could slap himself hard across the face.
He had never imagined Zhao Yunhui would drug him. All he had consumed was her lotus seed soup; apart from that, he could think of no reason he would have fallen into such a deep sleep.
Huang Xiao understood Zhao Yunhui's actions. She did not want him to fight Cao Wuxin, fearing he would die at Cao Wuxin's hands.
But as far as