The poison in Li Ji's body had already been neutralized by the Life Reviving Pill.
But he continued to act as if he were deeply poisoned, maintaining his persona of a man on death's door.
To avoid being found out, he even put on some makeup to make himself look extremely weak.
He rebuffed the Imperial Physician's attempts to take his pulse, giving one excuse after another.
Since Prince Zhao had always been so temperamental, the Emperor didn't think much of it. He told the Imperial Physician to go back and continue researching an antidote and to leave Prince Zhao to his rest for the time being.
After sending the Imperial Physician away, Li Ji had the low couch in the outer room removed.
That left only one bed in the room.
As the one who was actually sick, Hua Manman now had nowhere to sleep and was forced to share the bed with him.
The bed was actually quite large, but Li Ji insisted on snuggling up right next to Hua Manman.
