Dealing with a Stubborn Patient

"I only asked your name, why are you smiling like a fool?"

"If I want to smile I'll smile, does the Crown Prince have a problem with that?" She said stretching her lips even more, as if to taunt him.

Zhang Zhengyang felt that ever since she woke up she had been acting weird, he didn't argue with her, instead rolling his eyes. Meanwhile Zhao Xing's servants were at the door, they didn't dare enter, after they saw that their Master and mistress were having a discussion.

They contemplated if they should announce themselves or not. One held a bowl of medicine she feared would get cold, while the other held a new set of clothes.

In the end, "Master I've brought Grand Tutor her medicine."

Hearing this, Zhang Zhengyang asked them to come in.

'Medicine? What medicine?'

They both entered inside, and saw Zhao Xing lying in bed looking at them with curious eyes, they realized how much they had missed her.

"How come the both of you left your mistress when she was unconscious?" The Crown Prince asked sternly.

They both knelt down, "Master this servant went to hasten the servants to bring the medicine, while Lan'er left to get Grand Tutor a new set of clothes. Forgive us for our negligence."

Seeing her servants being reprimanded like this, Zhao Xing felt that they had bullied her people, and became protective.

"Hey! They just left for some time, they didn't know I'd wake up it's not their fault…"

Her voice trailed as she realized someone was glaring daggers at her. Zhang Zhengyang turned to her, "If this is how you want to raise your servants, then you'd never have wise servants around you. Imagine if I wasn't here when you fell? You've only just recovered and your body's still weak, was it nice to get up and find that nobody was around to take care of?" Zhang Zhengyang scolded.

Zhao Xing twisted her mouth, showing her unwillingness, well, it didn't feel nice but it was just a mistake, it happens there was no need to make a scene. Besides, why was he scolding her? He even scolded her! He had never done that before. All he did in the past was to be sarcastic. Thinking up to here, she puffed her cheeks. She only got scolded by her mother and teachers, ok? How come this guy wanted to join the list?

Seeing her grimacing Zhang Zhengyang was even more annoyed, "You better get stricter when dealing with your servants." After that he kept silent. Zhao Xing didn't speak and had turned her head the other way, so the room was silent.

Her every action just now annoyed him, she even ignored him! He got up in his annoyance and left without a word.

Seeing that he had left, Zhao Xing turned to look at her servants that were still on their knees.

"You guys, quickly get up." She said, she tried to wave her hand toward them but she was too tired to do so.

But the maids didn't budge.

"He's already gone, you can stand up now." Zhao Xing thought they didn't dare stand up because they feared the Crown Prince.

"Grand Tutor, please punish us for our negligence." They both said with their heads bowed.

Zhao Xing was not used to this, and felt the scene was very strange. She let out a dry laugh. "You guys…there's really no need for that…"

But no matter what she said they didn't rise.

Zhao Xing sighed, what was wrong with them? She was already tired, now they're just adding to her stress.

"Whatever, let me get better, when I get better I'll surely punish you both. You guys get up first." 'Tch, want punishment? Wait for it, you'll have to wait a long time.'

They both glance at each other before rising up to their feet. "Thank you, Grand Tutor."

'Heavens! It's all that guy's fault! If he didn't talk about being the 'being strict' thing their mentality wouldn't have been affected.' She mourned internally.

Her poor cute maids!

They both rushed to her side.

"Grand Tutor do you feel better?"

"Do you still have a headache?"

"Do you feel weak?"

They bombarded her with questions, their calm and respectful demeanor from just now had completely disappeared, as for acting 'wise' and 'being strict' all that had been thrown out the window.

Zhao Xing smiled smugly. 'Want to transform my little cute girls into some boring house maids? In your dreams!'

She basked in their attention, feeling satisfied. Until it was time for her to take her medicine.

"No." She said for the hundredth time. She was absolutely not going to take that smelly thing! She wasn't dead yet, why would she accept to drink that pitch black concoction?

"But, Grand Tutor, it's thanks to this that you are awake today." Lan'er persuaded.

So what? Should she give her body in return for the life saving grace? No way!

She vehemently shook her head.

The two maids had already tried all they could and had ran out of ideas. Just then Nuo Nuo had an another idea.

"Grand Tutor, if you don't take the medicine we'd have no choice but to get the Crown Prince to come."

Zhao Xing looked at her with wide eyes. "Nuo Nuo! You…how could you?" She said this and tried to sit up but the hand she used to support herself slipped because of her lack of strength and made her almost fall out the bed once again, if not for the two maids that quickly supported her. But this didn't make her keep silent. "I consider you two to be my best friends in this world, yet you two have joined hands to conspire against me?"

The maids were at lost for words. They didn't mean it like that, they just wanted her to take her medicine so she could get well.

Nuo Nuo couldn't let this continue, so she left Lan'er there and went to look for the Crown Prince.

"Nuo Nuo, if you leave here then better never come back."

The Crown Prince got word of this and was very angry. When he arrived, Zhao Xing could feel the temperature around her had dropped. But she was still sweating.

'What does this mean?'

But her question was soon answered.

Zhang Zhengyang silently walked in with a gloomy expression that made Zhao Xing's heart skip a beat, she had never seen him this angry. He glance at her and took the bowl of medicine from Lan'er.

Lan'er wisely helped Zhao Xing sit up, against her will, but of course, Zhao Xing didn't dare refuse.

Zhang Zhengyang sat beside her and handed the bowl of medicine to her.

Zhao Xing looked at him with pleading eyes, but Zhang Zhengyang refused to look her way, his eyes were focused on the bowl.

Seeing that she was struggling to raise her hand, Zhang Zhengyang fed the medicine to her instead, making her drink it in one gulp.

The bitterness made her squeeze her face. She really hated it. She looked at the Crown Prince as if she was looking at her enemy.

"You only just woke up, and have so much stamina despite being so weak, hopefully you don't tire yourself to death." The Crown Prince was not in a good mood, and Zhao Xing could tell. So even if she felt wronged she didn't dare argue with him.

"From now on whenever she takes her medicine I'll feed it to her personally, let's see if she has the guts to refuse." He said to the two maids.

"Yes."

After all the trouble she caused the whole morning Zhao Xing was exhausted and went back to sleep. As for how she managed to stay here without returning to her world all these days, it was a thought for later.

The days that followed Zhang Zhengyang kept his word of feeding her medicine, to Zhao Xing's dismay.

No one knows if she remembered anything concerning the images or the dreams from three days ago, or not