"What on earth have you all done?" Su Wan'er stared at Si Junlin, who was getting up from the ground. Her eyes were instantly filled with flames.
No one present had expected that the emperor, who had previously shown no concern for the queen, would now care so much about her.
For a moment, the concubines who had laid hands on the queen quickly withdrew their hands.
Even Concubine Xi and Concubine Mei silently showed expressions of "This has nothing to do with me."
Su Wan'er helped Si Junlin up and instinctively wanted to check some hidden parts of the body.
"What are you doing?!" Si Junlin quickly grabbed Su Wan'er's hand.
Only then did Su Wan'er remember where they were. She reached out and picked Si Junlin up in a princess - carry. Ignoring the astonished onlookers, she directly carried Si Junlin onto the imperial carriage.
"You..." Si Junlin, being carried by a woman for the first time, felt quite uncomfortable. "You can put me down now."
Su Wan'er tightened her face and said nothing.
Si Junlin now felt pain all over his body, but this was her own body! Su Wan'er felt as if her heart, liver, spleen, and stomach were all aching.
Back in the imperial chambers, Su Wan'er immediately summoned the imperial physician to prepare some ointment for treating bruises for Si Junlin.
"Sorry, I didn't take good care of your body." Si Junlin saw Su Wan'er still with a poker - face. He thought she was blaming him for not protecting her body well. After the imperial physician left, he apologized to Su Wan'er, who was rummaging through the medicinal herbs beside him.
If he were still the emperor, he might not have been able to say it. But now, perhaps because of this body and his new identity, he easily uttered the words of apology.
Su Wan'er looked back at him fiercely, said nothing, and simply stood still beside the bed.
"You..."
"This is not your fault." Su Wan'er said indifferently.
In that situation, unless one was extremely skilled in martial arts, they would only be beaten under the suppression of so many maids.
But Si Junlin still felt guilty towards Su Wan'er. If they hadn't switched bodies, he might not have been in the cold palace today. Who knew what those concubines would do next.
However, before he could say anything, he saw Su Wan'er's "evil claws" reaching towards him.
"What, what are you doing?!" Si Junlin quickly grabbed Su Wan'er's hand.
"Applying the medicine." Su Wan'er said it so naturally. This was her own body. If there were scars left carelessly, she would be the one to suffer.
"No, I know you're changing the medicine, but how can you just casually take off a man's clothes?" Si Junlin was quite annoyed seeing how skillfully Su Wan'er was pulling at his belt.
Su Wan'er sneered: "After changing clothes for so many days, if I couldn't even take off a belt, I'd really be a fool."
Si Junlin calmed down a bit and didn't refuse Su Wan'er to apply the medicine for him anymore.
After a long time, feeling that the silence between them was too much, Si Junlin hesitated for a while and finally decided to ask the question in his heart.
"By the way, how about my mother..." Although he believed that Su Wan'er could handle it well, he still wanted to know the result.
Su Wan'er glanced at him and casually asked: "Are you worried that I'll confront your mother or that I'll just quit being the queen?"
Si Junlin was silent for a while and then said to Su Wan'er: "If it was before, I might just have been worried about whether you'd confront my mother. But now, I'm more worried about whether you still want to stay in the position of the queen."
"Huh? Why?" Su Wan'er accidentally applied a bit too much force with her hand, which earned a pained cry and a cold glare from the emperor.
"What are you doing? Trying to assassinate me?"
Only then did Su Wan'er realize that she had applied too much force in her excitement. She quickly said, "Sorry." Then, while applying the medicine for him, she told Si Junlin what had happened in the Empress Dowager's palace recently.
Si Junlin's gaze on Su Wan'er became inquisitive. After today's experience, Si Junlin realized that Su Wan'er was truly the right person to be the queen.
"Okay, the medicine has been applied." Su Wan'er put the things in her hand on the bookshelf beside her and then turned to look at him. "Can you still handle official business now? If not..."
Si Junlin stood up from the bed. "It's okay. These minor injuries are nothing." Although those concubines had been ruthless, they were not martial artists who had trained since childhood. The most they could cause were bruises.
Then the two of them went to the imperial study together. It was still the same as before, but perhaps because they were used to it, the awkward atmosphere between them was gone. Instead, they got along very harmoniously.
In the middle of the night, Fang Xi, following Su Wan'er's instructions, asked the imperial kitchen to prepare some medicinal soup for promoting blood circulation and removing stasis. Su Wan'er urged Si Junlin to drink it.
Days passed by like a fleeting moment.
One day, seeing Si Junlin seriously handling official business, Su Wan'er suddenly couldn't help but ask, "Your Majesty, so many days have passed. Have you found a way to switch our bodies back?"
She noticed that Si Junlin had been going in and out of the imperial study frequently recently, and she subconsciously thought that he was looking for a way to switch their bodies back.
But... "Not yet. Why? Aren't you used to it yet?" Si Junlin glanced at Su Wan'er indifferently.
Su Wan'er let out an "er" sound, scratched her head, and said helplessly, "It's not that I'm not used to it. It's just that I think it's better to switch back earlier. What if our identities are exposed?" This was what she was worried about, not whether she was used to it or not.
"Don't worry. You've been doing very well so far. There's no need to worry at all." He didn't even lift his head and continued his work.
"But we can't be like this forever, right? Your mother has already started urging me to summon concubines to my bed and give birth to a crown prince. I can't keep refusing, can I?" Su Wan'er said somewhat helplessly.
Si Junlin finally looked up. "For safety's sake, the next time you summon a concubine, you can come directly to me. Then you won't have to worry about the Empress Dowager's urging."
"Forget it. I'll just keep refusing." In Su Wan'er's opinion, it was better to directly refuse the Empress Dowager than to spend a whole night face - to - face with Si Junlin.
Si Junlin's face darkened a bit. "Do you dislike me so much?" Would she rather refuse the Empress Dowager than stay with him?
"No, no, it's just... just..." Just what? Su Wan'er rolled her eyes for a long time. Finally, she found an excuse: "It's just that you never liked me before. I don't want to be annoying."
"I don't dislike you anymore." Si Junlin suddenly became serious.
Su Wan'er was stunned by his sudden words. "Oh..." What had she just heard?