Every time the prince opens his eyes, he sees

Li Wan'er didn't say a word, but just smiled faintly, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.

Xie Qingchen picked up the tea and used the lid to brush away the tea leaves on the tea. Just as he was about to drink, Lu Yaoyao's ears suddenly heard a sharp explosion. It was the voice of the system, "Oh no, there is a foreign object detected in the tea."

"What foreign object?" Lu Yaoyao's heart suddenly jumped.

"If Xie Qingchen drinks the Mandarin Duck Gu eggs, they will quickly parasitize his body, hatch, and then control him to fall in love with the host parasitized by another Mandarin Duck Gu."

"However, the host can choose to stop it or ignore it. After all, Xie Qingchen is no longer your target."

This Li Wan'er is just like her father, with bad intentions.

Lu Yaoyao decisively chose to save him.

She had no objection to Xie Qingchen falling in love with someone else, but she didn't like seeing him being forced.

She didn't use such despicable tricks back then.

"Ouch, my stomach hurts so much." Lu Yaoyao covered her stomach with her hands and cried out.

The discolored and distorted expression is so realistic.

After all, she has been acting in front of Xie Qingchen for so many years, and no one can compare to her when it comes to acting.

The tea was almost fed to Xie Qingchen's mouth, but he heard the movement from her side. He immediately put down the teacup and walked over to check the situation. "What happened?" He frowned and looked at Lu Yaoyao, who was being hugged by Gu Huai, with a pale and uncomfortable face.

Gu Huai spoke with a worried tone, answering for her, "Yaoyao seems to have eaten something bad and says she has a stomachache."

"I just had two cups of tea and a few cakes..." Lu Yaoyao said with all her might.

"Tea? Pastries?" Xie Qingchen frowned, his eyes moving back and forth between the tea and pastries on the table where Lu Yaoyao was, and finally fixed on the cup of tea that Lu Yaoyao had drunk but not finished.

"Send someone to check on this tea."

"Yes, Your Highness." Qingfeng picked up the half cup of tea that Lu Yaoyao had drunk and left on the table.

Behind her, Li Wan'er clenched her hands.

She didn't put anything in the tea Lu Yaoyao drank, so why did she have abdominal pain?

It just so happened that when the prince wanted to drink tea...

Is it...

But after inspection, it was found that something was indeed added to the tea, a laxative.

This time even Li Wan'er was confused.

"Your Highness, please understand that I have no motive to harm Miss Lu, nor would I poison her in such a situation." Li Wan'er analyzed calmly and logically.

"Of course I know it couldn't be you. There are so many people here, and I don't know how many people have touched this cup of tea Miss Lu drank. It's possible that someone else has a grudge against Miss Lu and poisoned her."

"This matter..."

Lu Yaoyao secretly pinched Gu Huai.

He swallowed back what he was about to say.

Xie Qingchen's expression was fierce. "Whoever murdered Miss Lu, come forward and confess. Otherwise, if I find out, I will not let you off easily."

As soon as he finished speaking, a noble lady stood up tremblingly and knelt down, "Your Highness, I was momentarily bewildered and jealous that Lu Yaoyao would marry General Gu, so I deliberately tortured her. I beg Your Highness to forgive me."

"Go back, be grounded for a year, and don't attend this kind of banquet."

"Thank you for your grace, Your Highness."

The noble lady knelt down to thank him and left.

Lu Yaoyao was so puzzled!

Li Wan'er quickly asked someone to replace the tea with new one and did not dare to tamper with the tea again.

He also asked the accompanying doctor to come and prescribe anti-diarrhea medicine for Lu Yaoyao.

After this incident, no one was in the mood to have fun and the party ended early.

In the carriage, Gu Huai said, "Yaoyao, why did you pinch me just now? Did you give yourself the laxative? Why did you do that?"

Lu Yaoyao laughed dryly and said, "When Li Wan'er's maid passed by me with fresh tea, I accidentally smelled a strange odor wafting from the tea. I was afraid that Li Wan'er would harm the Crown Prince, so I tried to stop him from drinking that tea."

"How is that possible? Hasn't Li Wan'er always been in love with the Crown Prince? How could she possibly harm him?"

"Yes..." Lu Yaoyao paused, a look that could only be understood but not expressed in words, "That kind of thing."

Gu Huai understood instantly, and his face turned red.

"She has admired the Crown Prince for a long time, but he has rarely responded to her. It's possible that he is taking an unconventional approach."

Lu Yaoyao returned to the mansion and just as she entered her room, she found someone sitting at the table. She was startled. When she saw that it was Xie Qingchen, she was even more frightened. "Your Highness, do you think it's inappropriate for you to enter a woman's boudoir so rashly?"

Xie Qingchen's face was gloomy. "Don't you have anything to explain to me?"

"Your Highness, have you figured it out?" Lu Yaoyao sighed.

"The tea you drank didn't contain laxatives, but you pretended to have a stomachache from drinking tea mixed with laxatives. And you did it just when I was about to drink the new tea that Li Wan'er had her maid replace for me. You were trying to warn me that the tea I was about to drink was poisonous. Don't drink it!"

"Your Highness is intelligent." Lu Yaoyao pretended to be a little panicked as if she had been found out.

"I just don't understand. Your seat was quite far from mine. How did you find out that Li Wan'er had put something in my tea?"

"I found it when her maid passed by me while bringing tea."

Lu Yaoyao originally thought her explanation would work, but Xie Qingchen was even more sharp-tongued: "You were busy talking to Gu Huai at the time and didn't even glance at the maid. How did you find out?"

Lu Yaoyao was originally calm and composed, but suddenly she broke out in a cold sweat.

Xie Qingchen is indeed not so easy to fool.

And, damn it, this means he was looking at her at the time, which is why he knew she didn't even look at the maid. Why was he looking at her?

But now is not the time to speculate why this madman Xie Qingchen is looking at her, but to come up with reasons to convince Xie Qingchen and prevent him from doubting her.

"Your Highness, Li Wan'er and I have no connection, yet she invited me to visit the garden. I've always suspected she had ulterior motives, so I've been extra cautious and on guard against her. Before you arrived, I overheard her telling her maid that if you weren't coming, she'd leave the Rain Dragon Well tea on the table, but upon your arrival, she'd immediately switch to the Snow Top Green tea with mandarin duck eggs."

"Mandarin duck insect eggs?"

Xie Qingchen frowned even more tightly, obviously extremely unfamiliar with this thing.

"Yes, Your Highness. This poisonous insect is extremely venomous and can control a person's mind, causing them to fall in love with the person infested by another insect. Li Wan'er's feelings for the Crown Prince are well known to everyone. I was worried that she might be overly extreme, so I took the risk of giving myself a laxative to prevent the Crown Prince from drinking that tea."

Xie Qingchen snorted lightly, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry, "You are loyal."

Lu Yaoyao flattered him, "Gu Huai is utterly loyal to the Crown Prince. Since I'm about to marry him, I should stand with him and put the Crown Prince's safety first."

Xie Qingchen's eyes were deep, as if he was scrutinizing every word Lu Yaoyao said. After a long while, he slowly spoke, "Okay, go to bed early. I'll leave first."