The coroner and the concubine doctor pursue the murderer in the Dali Temple

When Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi arrived at the interrogation room, Lin Shize was too weak to stand up. The God-Eating Gu was broken and the Heart-Concentric Gu was drawn out. He had suffered heavy blows in just a few days and his body was already at the end of its strength. The jailer made an exception and gave him an armchair so that he could sit on it and answer questions.

Seeing the two of them, he was no longer as hostile to them as he had been before. Instead, he looked guilty. Before Chu Yunxi could speak, he said, "I feel deeply guilty for offending the princess earlier. I beg your forgiveness."

Chu Yunxi said calmly, "You've been poisoned. I won't hold it against you, but your sins won't be erased just because you've been poisoned. First, tell me what you've done."

Lin Shize's face was pale and sickly. He laughed at himself and said, "I didn't intend to escape the blame. It's just that my sins are so grave. Now that I think about it, I feel I deserve to die."

Lin Shize came from a poor family and was bullied since childhood because of his poverty, so he knew how to study hard since he was young, hoping that one day he could change his fate by passing the imperial examination. When he was nine years old, he rescued a girl when he went up the mountain to chop wood. The girl gave him a poisonous insect and said that it was something that could save his life in the future and taught him how to raise it. He didn't know that this kind of poisonous insect was extremely difficult to raise. He was ignorant and kept raising it according to the method the girl said. He didn't know that the girl was deliberately released by her parents to find experimental subjects. There were at least dozens of people like him who were given poisonous insects. What he didn't know was that almost all of those dozens of people had lost their lives because of this poisonous insect.

Later, due to some accident, he left home, and the girl lost track of him due to negligence. Ten years passed like this, and he passed the imperial examination and entered the Hanlin Academy. He also raised the God-Eating Gu for ten years.

In the Hanlin Academy, he met Danny Lee, and they had similar interests. The incident happened when Danny Lee invited him to his home. Ten years had passed, and the appearance of Lin Shize and Lingyue had changed. Lin Shize did not recognize the so-called Mrs. Li at all. She was the girl he saved that year, but Lingyue felt the God-Eating Gu being cultivated at once. She was overjoyed. This was really an unexpected success. Originally, the God-Eating Gu had never been cultivated, so she married Danny Lee, wanting to keep him by her side and take care of him. Unexpectedly, Danny Lee's God-Eating Gu had not been cultivated, but Lin Shize came, and his God-Eating Gu had been cultivated.

Ling Yue immediately thought of abandoning Li Xiuxian and winning over Lin Shize. However, this was the capital, and both of them worked in the Hanlin Academy, so she didn't dare to act rashly. So, while Lin Shize was off guard, she first planted the Tongxin Gu on him, so that he could serve her first.

Besides, the God-Eating Gu recognizes its master. If Lin Shize doesn't listen to her, his God-Eating Gu cannot be used by her. However, the Heart-Concentric Gu is slow to take effect. It took two years for the time to mature.

Meanwhile, Lin Shize and Lingyue had already been secretly plotting against Li Xiuxian. Lingyue had Lin Shize infect Li Xiuxian with the God-Eating Gu to see how effective it was. After all, it had never worked before, so further experiments were needed. Lingyue was incredibly ambitious. She felt that with her beauty, knowledge of Gu techniques and disguise, being a mere commoner was a waste of talent. Someone like her naturally wanted to enter the imperial palace and enjoy the world's ultimate splendor and wealth. To do that, she naturally had to start with Lin Shize.

Hearing that the Hanlin Academy was adding a new position for a palace tutor, Lingyue became interested. If Lin Shize secured this position, wouldn't it be incredibly convenient for him to enter and exit the palace? And as long as he could freely enter and exit the palace, he could then infect any concubine or prince with the God-Eating Gu, whispering in the emperor's ear, gaining promotion and closer rank. It would be a natural progression. Then, he could find the right opportunity to infect the emperor with the God-Eating Gu...

Lingyue felt that she was only one step away from becoming the most noble woman in the world.

The only trouble was that if one wanted to remove the God-Eating Gu, one had to kill the person who was infected with it before. Li Xiuxian couldn't be left alive. Qin Youwei happened to have given him the position of tutor at that time, which ruined Lingyue's plan. So she decided to go all out. She asked Lin Shize to set up this trap and let Li Xiuxian commit suicide in front of everyone. In this way, no one would suspect them. And this only required the simplest Gu technique. Lingyue had a senior brother named Lingping, who usually did business in the back alley of Li's house. If something happened, he would take action. When Li Xiuxian committed suicide, it was him who quietly went up to the attic and guided Li Xiuxian to commit suicide.

However, what Lin Shize and Lingyue did not expect was that the Dali Temple actually found out the cause of Li Xiuxian's death and continued to investigate. This made them a little panicked, so they discussed finding a scapegoat. It happened that at this time, the Dali Temple came to investigate the relationship between Lin Shize and Lingyue. They knew that it must be Qin Huaijin who revealed it, so they decided to go all out and let Qin Huaijin be the scapegoat to divert the attention of the Dali Temple.

So Ling Ping came forward and handed Qin Huaijin a letter, which contained evidence that Qin Huaijin had killed the maid Su Xin. Originally, Qin Huaijin felt guilty for not rescuing Su Xin. When he saw that someone had witnessed this, he threatened him and asked him to write a letter of repentance and spend money to avoid disaster. After thinking about it, Qin Huaijin did it and went to the appointment alone with the letter of repentance. In fact, the incident with Su Xin was really just an accident. However, Qin Huaijin tricked Su Xin into going up the mountain, but was seen by Ling Ping and followed, so he witnessed everything.

After taking Qin Huaijin to the alley, Ling Ping gave Qin Huaijin a poison that made him suffer from excruciating pain, forcing him to lie on the ground and write another letter of repentance. Then he pushed him to the vicinity of the Dali Temple, gave him acupuncture, causing him to lose his mind, and through behavioral replication, made him throw out the letter of repentance in front of the Dali Temple and then commit suicide.

Seeing that the Dali Temple still had no clue, Lin Shize and Lingyue finally put their minds at ease and started to plan to enter the palace again. This time they simply put the God-Eating Gu on Qin Youwei to avoid any further complications. Finally, the candidate for the tutor fell on Lin Shize. It seemed that they were just one step away, but they didn't expect that it was this step that made Lin Shize reveal his true identity.

When Lin Shize was talking to Lingyue, he suddenly vomited blood. Lingyue immediately knew that the truth had been revealed, the God-Eating Gu had been removed, and Lin Shize had suffered a backlash. She wanted to leave immediately, but she didn't expect that the house had been surrounded long ago. The Purple-Robed Guards moved faster than she had imagined. She didn't even have time to react before the Purple-Robed Guards arrived. In desperation, she could only use the excuse of changing clothes to leave through the secret passage. As for Lin Shize, he was no longer useful.