The next day Chu Yun must submit himself to the mortifying ordeal of being examined by not one, but three physicians Xiao Zai had personally vetted himself.
All of the servants were kept away from Chu Yun's quarters, and the inner pavilion as a whole, with the exception of Hua Nanyi, to reduce the chances of anyone overhearing anything they absolutely shouldn't.
Chu Yun watched in exasperation as Xiao Zai made the three physicians swear in front of him, on their ancestor's graves, on their own lives, and on their descendant's lives, that nothing they learned while examining Chu Yun would leave the four walls of his room.
After all three were appropriately scared shitless, the examination began.
