Keep your voice down. Are you trying to look glamorous dressed as a forced lover?

The emperor is Li Qingyan's strongest backer. As long as the emperor is alive, her mortal enemy brother can never go from being a wise prince to a regent, let alone become an invisible emperor.

Three months ago, his eldest sister passed away, which greatly affected the emperor. He fell seriously ill and often fell into a coma, rarely being awake.

When Li Qingyan arrived at the Yuanxi Hall, the emperor's bedroom, he was stopped outside.

"Your Highness, His Majesty is seriously ill and needs to rest."

Li Qingyan's face darkened: "I can't even watch?"

"Yes."

The person guarding the outside was polite and respectful, but his attitude was tough.

The entire palace was under the control of the Prince Xian, and Li Qingyan was kept outside.

According to his memory, the Prince Xian was not favored by the emperor, but he rose to power immediately after the death of the Crown Princess.

Li Qingyan felt an unprecedented sense of suffocation and crisis.

Fearing that the Prince Xian might harm the Emperor, Li Qingyan stayed behind, gritting her teeth and guarding the courtyard. She also instructed the palace maids, "Spread the word that I wanted to visit the Empress Dowager but was prevented from doing so."

Li Qingyan waited all day and finally caught a glimpse of the emperor from afar. The imperial physician respectfully replied that the emperor was only unconscious.

The objective was temporarily achieved, but the wise king did not show up until nightfall.

"Your Highness, will you be keeping watch all night?" the palace maid asked cautiously.

"No." Li Qingyan shook her head; her presence wouldn't affect the Prince Xian.

The wise king's actions were completely illogical, yet they still occurred, probably due to his protagonist aura.

She couldn't just sit and wait to die; she had to act according to her previous plan.

Back at Jingchen Palace, Li Qingyan instructed, "Summon Consort Sang to see me."

The palace maid acknowledged and left.

Li Qingyan felt that the hairpin was a little loose, and while adjusting it, she accidentally pricked her finger with the hairpin.

Blood oozed out, but Li Qingyan didn't seem to feel any pain.

Did she have painlessness in her past life? Could it be that her body does too?

Li Qingyan rolled up her sleeve and scratched her arm again.

She made two cuts, but they didn't hurt much. Li Qingyan gritted her teeth and used more force. This time the wound was deeper and bleeding profusely. She could clearly feel the stinging pain.

The pain quickly subsided, and she let out a soft "hmm" as she was about to try again. But with a tinkling sound, her hand holding the hairpin was grabbed.

"pain."

Hearing the tinkling of the silver bell, and having his hand caught, in an instant, before Li Qingyan could even turn his head to look for the sound, he appeared right in front of her.

"Sannoye?" asked her concubine, who was skilled in Gu magic.

Sannoye took the hairpin from Li Qingyan's hand, looked at her wound, tilted his head, and looked puzzled.

He was tall and slender, with a graceful and upright figure. He wore an indigo robe that flowed gracefully and was adorned with silver rings.

His black hair was tied up in a neat bun, with the remaining strands braided into thin braids hanging down his sides. A crescent-shaped silver ornament adorned his forehead, and silver earrings accentuated his wild yet handsome features.

In addition, their skin is pale and cool, their lips are reddish, and they have distinct ethnic minority features.

"What are you doing?" Sannoye stared at her intently, his eyes dark and clear.

His voice was clear and bright, with a slightly hoarse tone at the end, carrying an unpolished quality.

"I'm testing to see if I'll feel any pain... How did you get here so quickly?" The palace maid had only been gone a short while, yet he arrived so fast.

This Sannoye came from Guli in Miao territory; the original owner had only met him once.

He, Ji Mingzheng, and Song Qinian are the villains that the male and female protagonists in the book fear the most.

Sannoye's gaze fell on her blood-soaked arm: "You don't feel pain, but I do. I'm here to stop you."

He can speak Lebanese, but he doesn't seem to be very fluent. He speaks slowly and has a subtle but unique accent.

"Uh-huh?!"

Li Qingyan was surprised: "You mean I'm not in pain, but you are? You're stopping me because you're in pain?"

Sannoye hummed in agreement, paused, and then spoke again: "You won't feel pain, but you will die."

He warned her not to do anything reckless just because she doesn't feel pain.

He took a medicine bottle from his waist, sprinkled the powder on her wound, and then casually pulled a piece of cloth from the bed to bandage her wound.

The movement was very gentle, but Li Qingyan hesitated to speak: Brother, did you notice that the thing you used to bandage was a bellyband?

That was prepared by the palace maid; she would need to change into it later.

"How about you use something else to bandage it?"

"Why?" Sannoh tied the knot; this was just right.

"Because this is my undergarment. What do you think people will think of me if I go out wearing this?"

Sannoye paused, looked closely, touched his arm, and still couldn't untie it:

"Change it tomorrow."

It won't hurt as much tomorrow.

Li Qingyan watched his movements and strangely understood.

The original owner did not know that her pain would be shared. No one told her. She only knew that Sannoye had come and that the people around her would be cursed so that they would not betray her.

Song Qinian and Ji Mingzheng represent aristocratic families, both civil and military officials, while Sannoye is there to save her life.

"What kind of Gu (poison/curse) do we two possess?"

"The Life and Death Gu: If you die, I die; if you suffer, I suffer."

Li Qingyan nodded: "I see."

She breathed a sigh of relief, so she was healthy now, only her pain had been shared by his empathy.

Or perhaps he shared a lot of the burden; when she died in childbirth in the book, he also experienced that pain, even more than the original owner.

If she has a child in the future, wouldn't he share the pain with her?

Thinking about it this way, it feels quite complicated.

Having figured it out, her gaze towards Sannoh became much more complex: "I will be more careful in the future and try my best not to get hurt, but if you are in pain, please remember to come to me."

From then on, he became her pain alarm; if she was sick or injured, she would know through him.

And she herself doesn't have to be in too much pain, which is quite good.

"Okay." Sannoh said, making sure she wouldn't hurt herself again, and turned to leave.

Li Qingyan noticed the delicate silver bell tied to his ankle; the tinkling sound from earlier had come from there.

She got up and realized that one of her legs was a little itchy... no, it was numb from sitting.

So, this is what numbness feels like?

She poked it out of curiosity and couldn't help but hiss.

Then, she noticed that Sannoye, who had been walking along just fine, suddenly stopped and turned around to look at her.

Li Qingyan paused for a moment: "You can't even feel my legs going numb, can you?"

"Numbness doesn't seem like pain... Wait, is it more than just sharing pain, it's synesthesia between us?"

Sannoye paused for a moment, then reluctantly nodded and lowered his head: "The Life and Death Gu malfunctioned."

His voice was filled with frustration.

Ordinary life-and-death Gu can at most share pain, but his Gu mutated because he curiously fed it some things.

Previously, when he noticed that his body suddenly felt very comfortable, or very itchy and strange, he sneaked in to check. It was always when Li Qingyan was taking a bath, or when a palace maid was massaging her, or when Qiu Nanzhu was tickling her, or when he touched her randomly.

That was the strangest feeling he had ever experienced; he couldn't describe it, and it really bothered him.

"I could feel that tingling, itchy sensation you had before."

Li Qingyan's guess was confirmed, but... what does it mean to feel itchy, tingly, or numb?

Is it...

Her eyes widened. Was that what she meant?