Qi Ning thought to himself, "This time I've met someone who's not easy to fool."

However, she is good at deception; if one trick doesn't work, she can try another.

Moreover, Qi Ning didn't want to waste the opportunity, so she might as well use this medicine to play the victim in front of Yue Zeyuan.

"system."

"Host, I am here."

"Is there any medicine that can fake poisoning?"

The system understood Qi Ning's needs perfectly: "Host, do you want a medicine that, when taken, can make the imperial physician unable to detect the poisoning, just like before, but in reality, there is no poisoning?"

"Yes."

Yes, host.

"You're the most reliable one!" Qi Ning said with great relief. "Give it to me now."

"Okay," the system replied.

Yue Zeyuan sat to Qi Ning's left, and a small pill quickly appeared in her right hand, which she had secretly hidden in her sleeve.

Qi Ning gripped the pill, having already devised a plan.

Yue Zeyuan saw that Qi Ning did not answer him, but just lowered his head, his eyes flickering, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"What are you thinking about? Are you making up lies in your mind again, figuring out how to deceive me?"

His tone carried a slight chill.

"I advise you to tell the truth. No matter what you say, I will have the imperial physician examine the medicine. If you tell the truth now, I can forgive you this time."

He was already giving her a chance.

Qi Ning raised her head, looked at Yue Zeyuan, bit her lip, and seemed to be hesitating.

After a long while, she finally spoke: "Alright, I'll tell you the truth. You should let Eunuch Xu out first."

Just now, Yue Zeyuan asked Eunuch Xu to summon the imperial physician, but Qi Ning stopped him again. Eunuch Xu was caught in a dilemma, not knowing whether to go or not, and was now waiting at the door for Yue Zeyuan's instructions.

Upon hearing this, Yue Zeyuan said to Eunuch Xu, "You may leave."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Knowing that His Majesty and Consort Ning were about to discuss matters, Eunuch Xu tactfully withdrew and thoughtfully closed the door behind him.

"Can we talk now?"

Yue Zeyuan looked at Qi Ning with a relaxed expression.

"You guessed right, that little pill wasn't a contraceptive, but an antidote," Qi Ning said.

"Antidote?"

This answer surprised Yue Zeyuan greatly. He had guessed it was a contraceptive or a poison, but he never expected it to be an antidote.

Since it's an antidote, it must be for detoxification.

Who has been poisoned?

Yue Zeyuan frowned slightly and pressed, "What antidote?"

A hint of sorrow appeared in Qi Ning's eyes.

She looked at Yue Zeyuan and smiled bitterly: "As you know, I was reluctant to come to Yue Kingdom at first, but I had no choice but to agree."

“But I clearly agreed, yet Chu Hanfeng and Chu Xiyue were still worried, probably because they feared I would betray them and the Chu Kingdom. Therefore, they poisoned me.”

Qi Ning's words were not a lie; they were the original owner's true experiences, only now she was speaking them out under the identity of Yun Jing.

Upon hearing this, Yue Zeyuan's expression instantly turned serious.

He hadn't expected that she really had been poisoned.

It was Chu Hanfeng and his group who poisoned him.

Yue Hanfeng suddenly grabbed Qi Ning's arm: "What kind of poison?"

“I don’t know what kind of poison it is,” Qi Ning said. “I only know that you have to take the antidote at least once a month, otherwise the poison will take effect, making life worse than death, and then you will die suddenly.”

Yue Zeyuan tightened his grip on Qi Ning's arm. He had been unwilling to return the antidote to Qi Ning just moments before, but now he immediately took it out.

"Then this antidote..."

Just now, it was Qi Ning who was anxious, but now the tables have turned.

"Don't rush, I'm not in a hurry to eat it right now. I was just in a hurry to ask you for the antidote back because I didn't want you to know about it. Now that you already know, there's no rush."

Qi Ning smiled nonchalantly: "It's precisely because it's not time for me to take the medicine yet that I temporarily hid this antidote in my makeup box. Who knew that you would find it by such a coincidence?"

This means it won't happen for the time being.

Yue Zeyuan breathed a slight sigh of relief.

But soon, he reprimanded him with a stern face: "Why didn't you say so earlier? If I hadn't seen through your lie just now, how long were you planning to keep it from me?"

Qi Ning gripped her sleeve: "Chu Hanfeng and his sister threatened me, forbidding me from telling anyone, otherwise they would stop giving me the antidote. It's said that only they have this antidote."

Yue Zeyuan's eyes were full of disdain. He was the emperor, and he didn't believe there was any antidote in the world that he couldn't obtain.

If she had told him about this sooner, he would have definitely found a solution for her much earlier.

However, looking at the antidote in his hand, Yue Zeyuan asked again, "Then where did this antidote come from? Could it be that Chu Hanfeng arranged for an inside agent in the palace to deliver the antidote to you?"

Qi Ning shook her head slightly: "No, it's a jade peach."

"Jade Peach?"

“That’s right. Actually, I’ve known for a long time that she was sent by the State of Chu to monitor me, and I also know that she has always been in contact with the State of Chu. This antidote is what she gives me regularly.”

"So you knew that Yu Tao was sending messages to Chu via carrier pigeon, yet you covered for her and protected her, all for the sake of the antidote."

"That's it."

Yue Zeyuan understood. She had just lied to him this afternoon, saying she knew nothing about the carrier pigeon incident, and then he discovered the antidote that evening.

No wonder she was so unwilling to reveal what the medicine was; it turns out the source of the antidote was difficult to explain.

She really did hide a lot of things from him and told him a lot of lies.

But Yue Zeyuan had no time to argue with her about these things; he remembered something else.

"If that's the case, then why did you let Yu Tao leave with Shen Yixiao on your first night in the palace? If she left, wouldn't you have been unable to obtain the antidote?"

Qi Ning's long eyelashes drooped, and she said sadly, "Because at that time, I never intended to live, and I didn't care whether she left or not."

"Later I found out that you weren't as scary as the rumors said, so I chose to live."

As soon as Qi Ning finished speaking, Yue Zeyuan pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly.

"Are you stupid?" Yue Zeyuan whispered in her ear.

It turns out she had been prepared to die from the very beginning.

The thought that the person in his arms had almost disappeared made Yue Zeyuan's heart clench.

Qi Ning leaned against Yue Zeyuan's chest and looked up at him: "I lied to you, aren't you angry?"

How could Yue Zeyuan not be angry? But he wasn't angry that she lied to him; he was angry that she didn't value her own life.

Furthermore, more than being angry, he felt pity for her.

Chu Hanfeng is far too despicable and shameless. Not only did he force his future crown princess to come for a political marriage, but he also poisoned her.

Yue Zeyuan released Qi Ning and said irritably, "How can I not be angry? Once I've cured you of the poison, you'll see how I deal with you!"

After a pause, he added, "Let the imperial physician examine you first."

"Hey, wait a minute." Qi Ning called out to him again.

"what happened again?"

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