Mei Changgong and Mei Xianghan were frozen in place, utterly stunned. Neither had expected the child to be Prince Ning’s son! They had assumed he was merely a minister’s child brought into the palace, and now, the situation had turned dire.
Zhou Fu approached Mei Gongxue and examined her injuries, quickly discovering that her arm was dislocated. His gaze turned sharp as he shot a look at Mei Changgong, disgusted that he could inflict such cruelty upon his own sister. While a dislocation could be reset, the agony of the injury itself was far more intense than any slap.
Mei Gongxue’s face had gone paper-white, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead as she gritted her teeth in silence. If Zhou Fu hadn’t been supporting her back with his hand, she might have collapsed. Glancing at him, she saw the cold, icy expression he held while looking at Mei Changgong.
Chapter 29