The Emperor went to sleep beside Lei Xing that night highly on edge. He kept jumping awake whenever he thought he heard a sound to check to see if she was awake, but was disappointed every time to find her quietly asleep.
The next morning, he went to court tired and highly irritable. When the ministers started having a disagreement, it set him off, and he harshly scolded them for behaving like children and then stormed off. After that, he went to the royal study but found he could not concentrate and was feeling slightly agitated.
After a while, he got up and went back to Lei Xing's palace taking along his memorials. He met the head physician applying acupuncture on Lei Xing. He glanced at Lei Xing, but not wanting to interrupt the treatment, went to sit on the side, watching the head physician work on the unresponsive patient.
