Every time the prince opens his eyes, he sees

"It looks like he's been poisoned, and it's a slow-acting poison, but who could have poisoned him?"

As soon as Lu Yaoyao finished speaking, Xie Qingyu inside suddenly started coughing violently, and the palace servants hurriedly handed her a handkerchief.

Xie Qingyu felt a sweet and fishy taste in his throat, and his handkerchief was stained with blood.

He looked at the bloodstains and could no longer remain calm, his fingers were shaking.

The palace maid turned pale and exclaimed, "How could this happen? Your Highness, I will call the imperial physician for you immediately."

A eunuch ran out in a hurry.

Gu Huai quickly pulled Lu Yaoyao to hide to avoid being discovered.

In a short while, the palace maid called the imperial physician.

Lu Yaoyao was not in a hurry to leave. She wanted to listen to what the imperial physician had to say.

The imperial physician felt the pulse and frowned as he said, "I've checked your highness's health and there's nothing wrong with him. He's just a little tired, but he's vomiting blood."

"Waste, all useless trash." Xie Qingyu was so angry that she pushed the imperial physician away. The imperial physician staggered a few steps and almost fell down.

"Your Highness, please calm down. I really can't diagnose any other illness." The imperial physician said in a trembling voice.

"roll."

The imperial physician felt as if he had been pardoned and quickly took his leave.

After the imperial physician left, Xie Qingyu's expression became uncertain, and a strong sense of unease arose in his heart.

Knowing that there is something wrong with your body but not being able to find out what is wrong is the most terrifying thing because you don’t know where to start.

Is he just going to have to watch his body continue to deteriorate until he dies?

The feeling of waiting for death but being unable to do anything about it is terrible.

"Bishui, go find Madam Bi." He gritted his teeth and shouted a few words.

A palace maid went there quickly.

Not long after, familiar footsteps were heard outside the door.

"Bishui, come in." Xie Qingyu shouted.

Bishui rushed over upon hearing the noise. Seeing Xie Qingyu vomiting blood, her expression changed drastically. "Your Highness, what happened to you?"

"I'm fine, let's go back. After we go back, check my diet and daily life recently to see if there is anything abnormal." Xie Qingyu said in a deep voice.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Gu Huai and Lu Yaoyao left, and Gu Huai asked, "Yaoyao, who do you think is suspicious?"

Yaoyao recalled the glance that Xie Qingyu had mentioned about Madam Bi when she came in. She definitely saw her and gave her a strange look.

This shows that she is definitely not an ordinary concubine of Xie Qingyu.

"It might be related to that Madam Bi. Why don't we follow her?"

"Yes, although Xie Qingyu is not a good person, during his tenure as crown prince, at least the country was relatively stable. I will never allow anyone who harms the Great Jin to appear."

"Ah."

Gu Huai sent top experts to monitor the East Palace around the clock. After two days, he finally managed to wait for Bishui to leave the palace.

She pretended to go shopping, but after entering a shop, she went straight out the back door.

Fortunately, Gu Huai sent two people to monitor, one guarding the front door and the other at the back door. The one at the front door lost him, and the one at the back door followed him.

The person waiting at the back door watched her turn around and around and finally enter Tianxiang Tower.

He followed in.

Bishui went up to the second floor and stopped at the door of a private room. He knocked lightly and heard a man's deep voice from inside, "Come in."

After Bishui went in, the person who was monitoring her immediately walked over and put his ear to the door to eavesdrop, but there was no sound.

"Master, Xie Qingyu's health is getting worse and worse, but no one can find the cause of his illness. I'm afraid he will die soon."

"Well, as soon as he dies, he will immediately send a signal to inform me. I will have to take advantage of the situation and launch a coup to support the tenth prince to ascend the throne."

"My subordinate understands."

Not long after, Bishui came out, but the person who was watching did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he continued to squat at the door.

Soon, a man in a green robe walked out. When the person who was watching saw him, his heart was shocked.

It was him.

……

Xie Qingchen returned to the courtyard and noticed that something was wrong in the air.

He paused and his gaze rested on Lu Yaoyao's face, who was sitting next to the stone table in the yard.

"Haven't you returned to your room to rest yet?"

Lu Yaoyao's face was like a cold, dull wall, old and transparent, soaked with wind, frost and disappointment.

"Xie Qingchen, let's talk."

Xie Qingchen's heart tightened inexplicably, "What do you want to talk about?"

Lu Yaoyao slowly stood up, her eyes complex, filled with both heartache and determination. "Tell me about what you did. Tell me what you wanted to do by ordering someone to poison Xie Qingyu."

Xie Qingchen's face turned pale in an instant. He didn't expect Lu Yaoyao to know his secret so quickly.

He forced himself to remain calm, trying to hide his inner panic with his usual gentle manner, "Yaoyao, what are you talking about? I have no power or influence now, how could I poison Xie Qingyu?"

"No power or influence." Lu Yaoyao sneered, "I'm afraid Xie Qingchen, you've never truly dismantled all the power in your hands! That's right, after being in a high position for so long, how can you return to being an ordinary person?"

She didn't hate him for being so cunning, she just hated that after going through so much, why was she still so naive and was deceived by him?

Xie Qingchen panicked instantly. "Yaoyao, listen to my explanation..." He spoke with difficulty, his voice trembling slightly. "Everything I do is for the future of Dajin. Xie Qingyu is cruel and ruthless. If he is allowed to continue to rise in power, Dajin will only fall into an irreparable situation."

Lu Yaoyao shook her head, tears welling up in her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall. "They're all excuses. If you care so much about Dajin, why would you give up your seat to him? Since you've already quit, why are you pulling these little tricks now?"

"I..." How could he say he did it for her?

In Lu Yaoyao's eyes, his silence showed his guilt.

She was extremely disappointed. "Xie Qingchen, I originally thought that even though you are cunning and scheming, you would at least remain sincere towards me. But now it seems that I was wrong. You are so good at pretending that you even hurt yourself to deceive my trust."

He had done so much for her recently that she almost believed him again.

But reality dealt her a heavy blow.

"You're such a heartless person. No matter how many years I've lived, I can't change you. You're only after your own ambition and power! Get out of here! Get out of my sight now! I never want to see you again."

Xie Qingchen's body swayed, as if Lu Yaoyao's words hit him so hard. His face was as pale as paper, and his lips trembled slightly, but he didn't say another word in the end.

He knew that no matter what he said at this moment, he could not regain Lu Yaoyao's trust in him.

He turned slowly and walked towards the door with heavy steps, each step feeling like walking on the edge of a knife.

Before leaving, he stopped, his back to Lu Yaoyao, and spoke in a low and hoarse voice: "Yaoyao, whether you believe it or not, everything I do is to hope that you can have a better future. As for Xie Qingyu, he is indeed not suitable to be the emperor. Dajin needs a truly wise ruler."

Lu Yaoyao did not respond, but just looked at his departing back coldly. It was not until the door creaked shut that she finally let her tears fall.

She squatted down, hugged her knees with her hands, and her tears silently wet her clothes.