Both worlds are like dreams

Wei Yunzhou hesitated. In fact, Gu Qinglan was unwilling to take the medicine. Whenever he had an attack, he would force himself to suppress it with his internal strength. The antidote was only given to him by people around him after he fainted from the pain. The attack of the Heart-Eating Gu was completely irregular. Sometimes he even had to take two pills to suppress the pain.

"Say it!"

Wei Yunzhou decided to keep it secret. "We experienced an assassination attempt before, and several antidotes were accidentally lost during the process. The last one was taken yesterday."

"I'll go get it now. Uncle, please help me explain it to grandpa." After Xue Huang said this, she left in a hurry.

Rong Yu looked at Wei Yunzhou, "You are not telling the truth, are you?"

Wei Yunzhou sighed inwardly. He was really not good at lying. If Xue Huang hadn't been so concerned, he really wouldn't have been able to deceive her.

"I didn't want to either, but Gu Qinglan wouldn't let me tell the truth. Besides, I didn't lie completely. There is indeed only one antidote left."

Rong Yu raised his eyebrows, "How am I going to explain this to Master later?"

"Don't look at me, I'm really not good at it."

Xue Huang returned to the palace alone, but did not find Mo Yunchen's whereabouts.

She returned to Lanxiu Pavilion and asked her remaining maids, only to find out that Mo Yunchen seemed to have gone to the general's mansion.

Cui Jinyu was not here either. She went back to the general's mansion to stay for a while a few days ago.

Xue Huang felt strange. Yesterday in the court, Mo Yunchen and Shen Congfeng were at loggerheads, yet today he was going to see him again. Could it be that they were still going to collude with each other?

"Do you think General Dingguo would dare to attack the princes and nobles who hold military power in his mansion?"

The four maids looked at each other, confused.

Dong Yue asked: "Princess, are you saying that General Shen wants to kill King Han Xi?"

"Just say what you want, don't worry about it."

"Princess, why haven't Sister Yun Qing and the others come back?" Dong Yue continued to ask.

"They are all settled in Jinxiu Tower. Haitang and Zhuoyang are injured, and Cuinong and Yunqing are taking care of them. If you have nothing to do, go and see them. I don't need anyone to serve me here."

"How can the princess be left alone?" Yingchun brought the hot tea to her. "You've been traveling so long, princess, please take a rest."

Xue Huang leaned on the couch, the warmth from the burning charcoal made her a little sleepy. "No one has bullied you these days, right?"

"We are the princess's people, who dares to bully us?" Dongyue smiled like a silly girl.

"That's good." Xue Huang said. "If someone bullies you, just fight back. Don't swallow your anger."

"Don't worry, Princess." Yingchun, the oldest among them, was very steady. "You don't need to worry about these trivial matters."

Xue Huang nodded and asked them to leave.

She waited until after dinner, but Mo Yunchen still didn't come back.

Could it be that he really had a fight with Shen Congfeng?

Thinking of this, she quickly stood up and planned to find someone to inquire about the news.

As soon as she opened the door, Mo Yunchen staggered in, and the hand that pushed the door grabbed her arm.

He seemed not to have expected Xue Huang to come back. A hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he leaned on her.

Xue Huang frowned and pushed him, "Have you drunk too much?"

Mo Yunchen did smell of alcohol, but it wasn't strong. Instead, his face was slightly red. He closed the door and held Xue Huang tightly. "You're back."

Xue Huang had no choice but to help him walk inside, "I have something to do..."

Mo Yunchen interrupted her, "I've been poisoned by the Hehuan Powder, you..."

Hearing this, Xue Huang paused and immediately pushed him away, "Then why did you come to see me?"

Mo Yunchen was nearly knocked down by her push. He quickly grabbed Xue Huang's sleeve, pulled her into his arms, then turned over and pressed her down on the bed.

Xue Huang was startled and pushed him in panic, "Mo Yunchen, what are you doing? Get up!"

Mo Yunchen clamped her hands and kept moving closer to her, his warm breath constantly sprinkled on her face, spreading a burning desire.

"What does your grandfather mean by asking you and Rong Yu to return to the valley to get married?"

"What do you mean? What are you talking about?"

“I heard everything that was said at that time.”

Xue Huang struggled to get her hand out, but his hand was like an iron clamp, and it didn't move at all. "I heard it, and you're asking me after hearing it?"

"He is your uncle, how could your grandfather go against the relationship between master and disciple?" Mo Yunchen's eyes were a little distracted, and he buried his face in her neck and rubbed it.

Xue Huang's skin was cool and delicate, and he was a little greedy. He could hardly suppress the heat in his body.

Xue Huang couldn't help but tremble, and the cold air gathered in her palms, "Why are you crazy again? If you don't get up, I won't be polite!"

Mo Yunchen stared at hers with his dark eyes, "Come to think of it, we are still short of a wedding night."

"Calm down!" Xue Huang was completely panicked, "You... you don't want the immortality Gu anymore?"

"Didn't we agree to go to hell together?" Mo Yunchen lifted her chin, "Wouldn't it be a lot less fun to be left alone in this world?"

"If I refuse, is this considered a threat to me?"

"Can you escape?" Mo Yunchen's thumb stroked her delicate lips.

Xue Huang turned her head away and gave up struggling, "Then remember to give me the antidote for the Heart-Eating Gu."

Mo Yunchen's whole body stiffened, and the heat in his eyes faded away little by little until it was like a cold pond of clear water.

His voice was slow and low, as if filled with anger, "Are you making a deal with me?"

"Our marriage is a transaction."

Looking at her cold and indifferent eyes, Mo Yunchen smiled sarcastically, "No need to remind me, I remember."

"Really?" Xue Huang smiled sarcastically, "Do you really remember why I married you?"

Mo Yunchen's eyes grew colder and he said nothing.

"Then let me remind you once again, you used such a despicable method as poisoning to force me to marry you in order to obtain the immortality Gu and to take advantage of me and the people behind me." Xue Huang said coldly.

"Shut up!"

"What?" Xue Huang sneered, "You've been acting for too long, do you take it seriously?"

Mo Yunchen's eyes were as cold as ice, "Do you think I'm acting with you?"

"Can you say you're not taking advantage of me?"

Mo Yunchen said nothing, stood up coldly, the coldness on his body was as heavy as ice and snow, and walked towards the bathing pool step by step.

Xue Huang sat up and sat there without saying a word until Mo Yunchen called her.

"Come here and use your internal energy to lower the water temperature. I will use my internal energy to catalyze the efficacy of the medicine."

Xue Huang really didn't want to pay attention to him. Why did he order her to work right after he had gone crazy?

Seeing that she was indifferent, Mo Yunchen spoke again, "I will only say this once."

Xue Huang finally walked over and took action without saying a word. Almost instantly, the water in the entire bathtub was covered with a layer of ice.

Mo Yunchen couldn't help but shudder from the cold. He looked up at her, feeling that she was deliberately taking revenge on him.

The two were silent for a moment, and he couldn't help but ask, "What are you still doing here?"

"I'm afraid the water isn't cold enough for you to calm down."

"Nothing is colder than your words."

"You asked for it."

"I deserve it!"

Xue Huang found a place to sit down nearby. "Didn't you go to the General's Mansion? I thought you were going to fight to the death before coming back, but I didn't expect you to be poisoned by this kind of drug. Why did General Shen's style suddenly change?"

Mo Yunchen didn't care about her sarcasm, but said, "He wasn't the one who drugged me."

"Who is that?"

"Cui Jinyu. To be precise, it's the spices and pollen on her body. Inhaling the scent of the two together can make people aroused." At this point, Mo Yunchen's face sank slightly. After all, he was also an expert in mixing perfumes and making poisons. It was really embarrassing to be tricked by such a simple method.

"What about her?"

"Knock him out and throw him back to the room."

Xue Huang was puzzled, "Isn't she your concubine? Why does she need to drug you to get close to you?"

Mo Yunchen looked at her with a meaningful gaze, but unfortunately Xue Huang didn't notice it. Instead, she was thinking seriously.

I don’t know what she was thinking about, but her expression suddenly became strange.

Mo Yunchen twitched his lips, "If you keep imagining nonsense, I don't mind letting you try."

Xue Huang's eyes flashed with embarrassment, and she quickly changed the subject, "What does Shen Congfeng want to ask you to do?"

"I have the military power in my hands, so he naturally doesn't want to break up with me."

"You two have done that in the court, and you still say you don't want to break up?"

"We are now equally powerful. It will do him no good to be my enemy."

"Equal in power?" Xue Huang didn't care. "Besides the military power, you don't have any followers in the court. Those ministers are attached to Shen Congfeng, not you."

"In the face of military power, these are vulnerable."

"So, you still decide to continue to be in cahoots with him?"

Mo Yunchen smiled slightly, "Disappointed?"