The Real Young Master Was Sold as a Slave, The Obsessive Crown Prince's Forced Love - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: The Urge to Nibble

Sure enough.

The moment Song Yu said that, the expression in Qi Wang’s eyes suddenly changed.

Song Yu felt the killing intent almost immediately.

“Today, in Consort Li’s bedchamber, Consort Li was especially angry and said she didn’t order anyone to push the Sixth Prince. She also said you specifically didn’t believe her. So I guessed that you asked me to kill Consort Li because of the Sixth Prince.”

Song Yu quickly explained, trying to remedy the situation.

His eyes, innocent and pleading like a puppy’s, looked at Qi Wang.

He gently hooked his finger on Qi Wang’s sleeve.

Instinctively, Song Yu tried to coax his biggest backer.

“Your Highness, are you angry? Please don’t be angry. I definitely won’t act on my own in the future. Today was a sudden incident, and I was afraid of killing the wrong person. Consort Li is a very nice person.”

Qi Wang’s gaze swept over the fingers clutching his sleeve, his eyes cold. “How nice? Nice enough to introduce her cousin to you?”

Song Yu:…

As expected of the biggest villain in the story, according to those words!

His power is strong!

Qi Wang knew about his conversation with Consort Li in the bedchamber.

Song Yu immediately fawned over him, “Your Highness is truly remarkable. Nothing can escape Your Highness’s discerning eyes. I am an open book in front of Your Highness; everything will be seen through by Your Highness. Your Highness must also see my loyal heart, right?”

An open book?

Qi Wang looked at the exposed skin showing through Song Yu’s messy clothes…

He was indeed very fair.

Fair enough to want to knead it red with force.

Twirling his fingers lightly, Qi Wang said with an unreadable expression, “Why frame Lady Wang?”

Since Qi Wang knew about his conversation with Consort Li, he must also know everything that happened in the bedchamber at the time.

Song Yu spoke with a mix of truth and falsehood, “Because the Earl of Anping’s residence had ill intentions toward Your Highness before, and I am wholeheartedly with Your Highness. Framing her is what she deserves. Besides, she sold me as a slave before!”

[Little Yu, don’t lie! Qi Wang got Lady Wang out of the Ministry of Justice dungeon and is having Half-Catty interrogate her!]

As soon as he finished speaking, that line of text suddenly floated across his vision.

Song Yu shuddered, his body under the quilt trembling violently.

She’s already being interrogated?

Did Lady Wang confess?

What would Qi Wang think of what he just said? Would he think he was lying?

Qi Wang frowned.

He watched the person lying there. A moment ago, he was speaking sweet words, expressing loyalty and tugging at his sleeve, and now his face suddenly looked unwell.

Qi Wang reached out and touched Song Yu’s forehead.

He felt a thin layer of sweat.

“Xu Huaien.”

At Qi Wang’s call, Xu Huaien, the head of the Imperial Physician’s Office, immediately entered from the outer room.

Qi Wang stood up, pointed at Song Yu, and said, “Check him. Why is he suddenly sweating so much?”

[Why does it feel like Qi Wang is a little worried about Little Yu?]

[Worried? Obviously, Song Yu is still useful. Half-Catty is trying to crack Lady Wang. Qi Wang needs to verify Lady Wang’s confession with Song Yu.]

[The original plan was for Song Yu to assassinate Consort Li. Now he didn’t assassinate Consort Li but harmed himself and framed Lady Wang. Qi Wang is definitely suspicious, perhaps suspecting Song Yu is colluding with Consort Li.]

Already uneasy, the lines of text floating past made Song Yu even more alarmed.

You’re just spewing nonsense! Why don’t you tell me how much Lady Wang has confessed!

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

Seeing no useful information in the text, Song Yu didn’t dare to open his eyes and reveal more, so he simply closed them.

He decided to pretend to be unconscious.

That way, even if Qi Wang was suspicious, he couldn’t question him now, right?

Xu Huaien stepped forward to take Song Yu’s pulse and reported honestly, “He has just been detoxified. The poison was quite potent, and his body is still very weak, which is why he is experiencing night sweats and chills. But it’s not serious. Once the toxins are completely cleared after a few days of recuperation, he will be fine.”

…

Leaving the Imperial Physician’s Office, Eight-Catty noticed his Highness’s face looked strange.

As his Highness’s loyal little guard, Eight-Catty was about to inquire considerately.

Qi Wang suddenly turned and asked, “Do you ever want to eat people?”

The words of concern caught in Eight-Catty’s throat, choking him.

His eyes widened like brass bells.

He looked at his Highness in confusion and helplessness.

Huh?

“N-no, Your Highness, e-eat what?”

Qi Wang asked very seriously, “Have you ever had this feeling? That is, when you see a person, you want to eat them, to nibble on them.”

Eight-Catty:!!!

Eight-Catty: (⊙o⊙)

Oh my!

A silent scream went off in his heart. Had his Highness finally gone mad?

The Prince might be mad, but he couldn’t be!

He had to be the Prince’s guiding light!

Eight-Catty felt the weight of his responsibility. He took a deep breath and said as gently as possible, “Your Highness, although there are incidents of cannibalism during famine years, it is ultimately against human nature, contrary to the laws of heaven, and will incur divine punishment.

“Besides, human flesh probably doesn’t taste good.”

Doesn’t taste good?

Qi Wang thought of Song Yu’s crimson lips and delicate skin.

He thought it would taste good.

Just now in the room, he had a very strong urge to savagely nibble on him.

However…

If he did nibble, Song Yu would probably cry.

He already whimpered when his lips were just kneaded.

So delicate.

Feeling a heat throughout his body, Qi Wang’s face became even gloomier. “Did Lady Wang confess?”

Eight-Catty’s mind was still trying to figure out how to persuade his Highness to abandon the idea of eating people. Hearing the sudden question, his eyelids twitched with fright, and he blurted out, “If she doesn’t confess, will you eat her?”

Qi Wang looked at Eight-Catty with an expression like he was looking at an idiot. “Why would I eat her? Am I sick?”

Eight-Catty:…

Aren’t you?

If you’re not, then am I?

…

The Eastern Palace.

The dark room.

Lady Wang had been tortured by Half-Catty until she was unrecognizable, looking like a bloody mess of rotten meat.

Qi Wang sat in a chair with an indifferent face. “Why did you sell Song Yu?”

Slumped on the ground, Lady Wang’s throat made guttural, indistinct noises. Her bloody, gouged-out eyes stared gloomily at Qi Wang.

No wonder the plan failed back then.

No wonder Song Yu turned around and became an Imperial Physician.

It turned out to be the Crown Prince!

It was that bastard Song Yu who rescued the Crown Prince from the market back then, derailing the Earl of Anping’s arrangement.

“What? Your Highness arranged for that bastard to enter the Imperial Physician’s Office, but he didn’t tell you why he was sold?” Lady Wang’s bloody face was contorted with towering anger, resentment, malice, and hatred. “…Hahahahaha, then it seems that bastard isn’t completely loyal to Your Highness either.”

Half-Catty kicked Lady Wang. “Confess what you’re asked. Stop the nonsense. Why did you sell Song Yu? What is Song Yu to the Earl of Anping’s residence?”

Lady Wang was fiercely kicked, trembling with pain. She mumbled a chilling, sinister laugh in her throat, mixed with a tragic cry, “Hahahaha, what is he? A jianz种 (bastard)! He’s so good-looking, why do you think I sold him?”

She was the perfectly respectable Earl of Anping’s wife. If it weren’t for Song Yu framing her, how could she have suffered this sudden disaster and been tortured to this extent!

She would most likely not survive.

Why should Song Yu live well?

Bastards should just die!

Filled with thick hatred, Lady Wang said, “Because he seduced men into bed! He is promiscuous and base!”