Duan Changchuan brought the agarwood back to Ming Sheng Hall. He took advantage of the break to read all the memorials he had accumulated over the past few days.

Bai Su sat beside him, quietly reading a book.

Today, she wore a silk navy blue private dress with a golden peony embroidered on the collar. She exuded a different kind of graceful temperament.

The youth looked steadily at the memorials on the table, seriously writing stroke by stroke. The smell of agarwood always seeped out from his wrist when his sleeves fluttered. Wisps of fragrance appeared at the tip of his nose from time to time.

“You changed the incense today?” As he was writing, the person beside him suddenly spoke.

The young man froze. Pursing his lips, he pretended to casually reveal the agarwood on his wrist, saying, “Yun Xie gave me a new string of agarwood. You should be smelling this.”

“Agarwood? No wonder …”

As she spoke, she naturally took his hand. The moment their skin touched, Duan Changchuan’s fingers involuntarily retracted. This movement caused Bai Su’s fingers to slide into his palm. He wanted to retract his hand, but it was directly held by the other party.

The next moment, the woman lowered her head and put the tip of her nose to the round wooden bead, gently sniffing it. He could even feel her breath on the skin of his wrist. In an instant, his hair stood on end.

“It’s very fragrant.” The shock in Duan Changchuan’s eyes was even greater than the shock and embarrassment of having his hand touched.

[She seems… not affected at all.]

[Could it be that she knows the use of this agarwood… Is she actually provoking me?]

He hurriedly pulled his hand back and sat upright.

He suppressed his thumping heartbeat and pretended to complain in a small voice, “What are you doing… Men and women should not touch each other.”

The woman’s hand was empty, but she did not move. She still maintained the position of holding his hand. Her long and narrow beautiful eyes quietly sized up his side profile …

After a while, Duan Changchuan could no longer sit still. She let out a sigh with a smile, saying, “Alright, I’ll listen to Your Majesty.”

Her voice was as gentle as ever, with a careless laziness. It was very similar to the “big cat” that liked to bask in the sun before Senior Huang left.

The young man pursed his lips and sat upright…

The tip of the pen fell on the memorials, drawing a line that lost its strength.

–

The morning passed quietly. After lunch, Bai Su returned to her bedroom to take a nap.

Recently, the two of them had been living together from time to time and were often together during the day.

Duan Changchuan had previously chased Bai Su back to Qing Lu Palace because of that dream, but after only two days of separation, he, this good-for-nothing, had dream walked over again.

Only the heavens knew how big of an impact he had when he opened his eyes and saw the person he was dreaming of was right next to him.

In the end, he simply gave up and called Bai Su back to Ming Sheng Hall.

Now.

Duan Changchuan sat on his spacious dragon bed and looked at the woman who was half-lying on the bed sleeping by the side window …

His gaze unconsciously drifted to the area below her waist.

[Do women have that kind of thing?]

[Could she actually be a man? But her breasts … Cough, I even accidentally slept on them before.]

Could it be that there was a type of woman in this world whose body structure was different from that of ordinary people?

After all, there were all kinds of strange things in this world … wasn’t there?

Thinking of this … The young man slowly retracted his gaze, got up, put on some clothes, and went out. He decided to take a look at the library of the Imperial Hospital.

–

To make it convenient to treat the people in the palace, the Imperial Hospital in Da Tong was located in the palace.

When the late emperor was alive, he favored the empress dowager, so there weren’t many people in the harem. In addition, Duan Changchuan was the only prince, so there weren’t many people in the palace. So, there weren’t many physicians in the Imperial Hospital. Everyone had their own small courtyard. Other than occasionally studying medicine together, they didn’t disturb each other.

And the library that Duan Changchuan wanted to go to was in Fang Moyan’s courtyard. Because although the library in his courtyard was small, it was famous for its quality.

After entering, the first thing that entered his eyes was a field of herbs under the sun. The air was filled with the bitter fragrance of herbs.

The medicine boys were busy carrying baskets of herbs in and out. On the platform in front of the door … There was a square wooden table with a pot of tea on it.

A young physician dressed in jade sat on a rattan chair. He was holding a medical book and quietly reading it.

The pages flipped, and under the sunlight, one could see the rolled and yellowed edges.

When the busy medicine boys noticed Duan Changchuan, they hurriedly stopped what they were doing and knelt, “Greetings, Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty.”

The sound disturbed the person sitting on the rattan chair.

The young physician immediately placed his hands on the armrest and lightly leaped forward, landing on the ground.

He then walked over with steady steps, “Your Majesty, why are you here? Do you need something from Yusheng?”

“Nothing important. I have nothing to do today, so I wanted to come to Senior Huang’s library to look for a few books to read.”

The little boy raised his head and looked at him. His little face was tense.

He frowned and looked for a while before saying, “Your Majesty hasn’t been sleeping well recently. This won’t do. You must ensure at least eight hours of sleep every day … I’ll have Ah Ling and Ah Qing pack a calming sachet for Your Majesty to hang in front of your bed.”

Without waiting for Duan Changchuan’s response, he turned around and ordered, “Ah Ling, Ah Qing, go to the pharmacy and pack two calming sachets. Be careful and don’t make a mistake. I’ll come over to check later.”

The two medicine boys who were immersed in checking the herbs immediately stood up and respectfully replied, “Yes, Young Master.” They then entered the pharmacy at the side.

It could be seen that even though Fang Moyan was not in the palace, Hua Yusheng’s prestige was still very high.

The young and mature physician watched the two medicine boys leave, then looked at Duan Changchuan and said, “Your Majesty, please follow Yusheng.”

After saying that, he turned around and led the way.

The library was built under Divine Physician Huang’s previous bedroom. It was very small and couldn’t see light all year round. The place illuminated by the candlelight was filled with books that were placed haphazardly.

“What kind of book is Your Majesty looking for? The books in the library are in a mess. Yusheng will find it for you.” The child asked crisply.

Duan Changchuan was in a dilemma for a moment …

How should he describe this? Bluntly ask, is there a book that records a woman’s body structure that is different from ordinary people? Hearing this, it sounded a little perverted …

The other party was a nine-year-old child.

He shook his head in his heart: No! This is not appropriate.

After thinking about it, he finally thought of a more conservative question, “Is there a human acupoint chart …? Uh, I want all kinds.”

Hua Yusheng, “… Your Majesty, the human acupoint chart may only be divided into two types, male and female.”

Duan Changchuan, “…”

He tried to hint, “Other than male and female … is there nothing else? For example … the one in the middle?”

The child understood this time and immediately nodded in understanding, “Yusheng knows the book Your Majesty wants.”

Then, he directly placed the candle in his hand and walked straight to an obvious position. It seemed that his goal was clear.

Not long after, he carried a huge stack of books and came in front of him. Duan Changchuan followed the light and looked at the book at the top. It was written “Notes of Intersexuality Observation”.

He was overjoyed. This was exactly what he wanted!

He immediately picked up the book, “It’s this kind … I read a story about a monster a few days ago …”

Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly paused.

Because he saw that under this “Notes of Intersexuality Observation”, there was a book “Intersex and Conception”.

The next book “Male Conception in Animals”.

“Whether Men Can Conceive”.

“Intersex Pregnancy”.

“Intersex Body Struction and The Feasibility of Conceive – Illustration”.

Duan Changchuan: …???

Why would such a shameful thing be placed in such a conspicuous position?

Moreover, why was it organized so thoroughly? There were already more than ten books!

Although … but …

He silently took the illustration book … rolled it up and put it in his sleeve pocket.

Although the name was strange, it was exactly what he wanted.

“Cough, is there a quiet room? I’ll take a look.”

Yusheng put the rest of the books back to their original positions, turned around, and stood on the stairs. He said, “Grandmaster’s room upstairs is very quiet. Master and I clean it every day. The medicine boys are also prohibited from entering on weekdays. Your Majesty, please follow Yusheng up.”

“Okay, thank you Yusheng.”

“You’re welcome, Your Majesty.”

–

Duan Changchuan didn’t read the book for long.

The first reason was that it was full of pictures. The second reason was that … the pictures in the book were really difficult to explain in a few words.

Some of the people in the pictures were more feminine in appearance, and some were more masculine in appearance.

However, without exception, all of them were exceptionally small ….

Duan Changchuan recalled the size he saw in his dream.

He shook his head wildly.

No, it was completely different. It was very different!

But he couldn’t just take this illustration book and show it to Yusheng and ask him, “Is there a bigger picture for this area?”

[No, Duan Changchuan, you can’t. At least you shouldn’t … He’s still just a child!]

Thus, in less than an hour, Duan Changchuan went out with a conflicted expression.

Yusheng was examining the medicinal herbs in the sachet. When he heard the sound, he raised his head and asked, “Your Majesty, did you find the answer you wanted?”

Duan Changchuan thought he was just asking casually and shook his head, “No.”

But the little boy seemed to have expected it. He put the sachet in a brocade box and handed it to him, “It’s okay. Master couldn’t find it even after searching all the medical books. That’s why he sent several letters to Grandmaster, asking him to come back and take charge.”

Fang Moyan was actually looking for this kind of medical book …

This was something Duan Changchuan hadn’t expected.

But while he was puzzled, he felt that it wasn’t that there were without indications. No wonder Yusheng found such a thick stack of books for him so quickly … And no wonder these books were placed in the most obvious position.

But he still felt that something was not right …

“Your master searched all the medical books … but couldn’t find it?” He asked hesitantly.

Yusheng nodded, “Yes, he has been studying for a long time without any results. Originally, he sent a message to Grandmaster early on. But Grandmaster was always fooling around and wasn’t very serious. He thought that master was bluffing him just to lure him back to Shengjing, so he kept evading in the letter.”

“A few days ago, Master suddenly said that he couldn’t delay any longer. So he rushed out of the city. If everything went well, he should be on his way back with Grandmaster now.”

After that, his eyes looked up and down at him. Finally, his eyes fell on his lower abdomen, “Has Your Majesty noticed it?”

The little boy was only nine years old. With his height, it wasn’t unusual for him to see Duan Changchuan’s abdomen.

Duan Changchuan only thought Yusheng felt tired from raising his head to talk to him and didn’t pay much attention.

He just nodded, “Yes … I didn’t expect that Imperial Physician Fang noticed it earlier than me.”

Yusheng didn’t think so, “Master is a physician. Naturally, it’s easy for him to notice.” After that, he changed the topic, “After master knew about this, he didn’t alarm anyone. He was afraid that his judgment was wrong and he was also afraid of disturbing Your Majesty … Speaking of which, how did Your Majesty know? Is there anything unusual recently?”

After that, he raised his head again and looked at the dark circles under his eyes.

Duan Changchuan touched his slightly rusty eyes and hesitantly spat out a few words, “Maybe … in a dream?”

Hua Yusheng, “…”

Duan Changchuan:?

They stared at each other.

Then …

From the moment they met, the young physician who had always maintained a calm and mature persona had a visible … crack on his face.

The child opened his mouth … and then closed it again.

He closed it again … and then opened it again.

Finally, he lowered his head and looked at the box in front of him, “Why don’t … Your Majesty try this sachet?”

He was crestfallen.

Duan Changchuan:?

Why is he suddenly unhappy …?

Did I say something wrong …?