Seeing this, Ji Qing asked, "Your Highness, what are you looking for?"

Where is Ning'er?

Ji Qing replied, "Miss Ning'er has gone to order someone to serve the meal. Would Your Highness like her to come and serve you?"

"Okay, let her come over," Feng Ke replied.

"Yes."

Ji Qing secretly found it strange. Their prince had been quite indifferent to Ning'er before, but recently he had become more and more attentive to her, even asking her where she was as soon as he got up. It was really odd.

Not only that, Ji Qing soon discovered that their prince was treating Ning'er better and better, and that he had her serve him personally every day, even surpassing him, who had taken care of the second prince since childhood.

For example, Feng Ke now basically only lets Qi Ning keep watch over him at night, and he also lets Qi Ning read to him and grind ink for him. The Second Prince, who usually doesn't like to talk, often chats with a palace maid.

Even the system said, "Host, in such a short time, you have surpassed Eunuch Ji Qing and become the number one person by Feng Ke's side."

Qi Ning shook her head: "Although Feng Ke has trusted me a lot and become much closer to me, he still doesn't meet my expectations. I want Feng Ke to have 100% trust and reliance on me."

"One hundred percent trust and reliance?" the system asked, puzzled. "Host, what do you plan to do?"

"To achieve this, you must win people's hearts. The quickest way is to go through life-or-death situations together. For example, if someone were to poison Feng Ke, that would be a good opportunity to use him."

"But it seems no one has poisoned Feng Ke yet, has it?"

Now that Feng Ke has become the Empress's legitimate son, he has become the most likely prince to inherit the throne. Naturally, the eldest prince and the third prince are anxious and eager to do something.

The reason they haven't taken any action isn't because they don't want to, but because they're afraid to.

After all, the last concubine who tried to poison someone had been executed by the emperor without any mercy, and that incident hadn't been long ago, so no one dared to take the risk.

Qi Ning curled her lips: "No one poisoned Feng Ke, but we can pretend that someone did."

"Host, what do you mean?"

"I need poison."

Qi Ning didn't want any highly toxic poison; he just wanted to put on a show.

That evening, Qi Ning took the food box from the palace servant who delivered dinner and personally delivered it to Feng Ke.

Just as Feng Ke was about to pick up his chopsticks, Qi Ning called out to him.

"Your Highness, please wait. Let me examine it first to see if there is any poison."

As she spoke, she took out silver needles from the box.

He would test for poison before meals, and Feng Ke did not stop him, patiently waiting for Qi Ning.

Qi Ning put the silver needle into the bowl of soup in front of Feng Ke, and soon the silver needle turned black.

Qi Ning suddenly raised his head: "Your Highness, this soup is poisoned!"

Upon seeing this, Feng Ke's expression also turned serious.

"Someone actually poisoned me."

He stood up: "I'll send someone to invite my father over."

"Wait, Your Highness, we mustn't alert them. Why don't we secretly summon the imperial physician to examine this poison?"

Feng Ke felt disgusted at the thought of poisoning, which reminded him of his mother. He thought Qi Ning's words made sense, so he agreed.

"Then let Jiqing go and invite Physician Sheng over to take a look."

This Imperial Physician Sheng was a trusted physician when Consort Shu was alive; he was a person she could rely on.

Not long after, Eunuch Jiqing personally went to invite Physician Sheng over.

The imperial physician carefully examined the bowl of soup and bowed, replying, "Your Highness, this bowl of soup is indeed poisoned."

"What kind of poison? Is it some kind of deadly poison?" Qi Ning asked.

"It's not a highly toxic poison, but a slow-acting poison. Taking a small amount won't be dangerous, only causing mild dizziness and drowsiness. However, if taken for a long time, it will eventually lead to the poisoned person becoming weak and sickly, coughing up blood and dying."

"There really is someone so vicious as to poison the Second Prince. I just wonder how many times this has happened."

Qi Ning said urgently, "I would like to trouble Imperial Physician Sheng to examine the Second Prince as soon as possible and see if he has accidentally ingested this poison."

Physician Sheng naturally thought so too, and quickly took Feng Ke's pulse.

After a while, Physician Sheng released Feng Ke's wrist.

"Imperial Physician Sheng, how is our Second Prince?"

"His Highness is unharmed. It seems he did not accidentally ingest the poison."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Eunuch Ji Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and Qi Ning seemed to feel the same way.

"Your Highness, someone actually dared to poison you! Fortunately, we discovered it. This servant will go and invite His Majesty here immediately."

"Wait a minute," Qi Ning stopped Ji Qing.

Feng Ke and Ji Qing both looked at Qi Ning with some doubt.

“Your Highness, in my opinion, this poison is only a slow-acting poison, not a deadly one. We discovered it in time, and you were not poisoned. I’m afraid it is not enough to attract His Majesty’s attention.”

Qi Ning's words were not without reason. Ever since Consort Chen gave birth to the Fourth Prince, the Emperor had devoted all his attention to Consort Chen and the Fourth Prince. Except for important days like the first and fifteenth of the month when he would stay in the Empress's Palace, he would spend almost every night in the Jade Palace. He had no regard for anyone else.

Even though Feng Ke is now the Empress's nominal son, the Emperor does not value him much.

Although Feng Ke has been poisoned, he did not drink the soup, so the emperor probably won't pay much attention to it.

"Then, then why don't we report to Her Majesty the Empress? Surely Her Majesty will stand up for our Prince," Ji Qing said.

Qi Ning shook her head slightly: "Even if Her Majesty the Empress values ​​the Second Prince, this matter ultimately depends on His Majesty's attitude."

"So what do you mean?" Feng Ke looked at Qi Ning.

"Your Highness, unless we make a big fuss about it and let His Majesty and the Empress know that you were almost poisoned, they will realize the importance of the matter and will not take action to investigate the person behind it."

"How do we make a big fuss?" Feng Ke didn't quite understand Qi Ning's meaning.

Qi Ning walked to the table and, in front of them, picked up the bowl of poisoned soup and drank it all in one gulp.

"Ning'er!"

Feng Ke was startled by Qi Ning's actions and hurriedly tried to snatch the bowl from Qi Ning's hand, but Qi Ning had already drunk the soup.

"What are you doing!"

Feng Ke, Ji Qing, and Imperial Physician Sheng all stared at Qi Ning in shock.

“Your Highness, just tell everyone that you gave this bowl of soup to me as a reward, and that you only found out about the poisoning after I was poisoned.”

"In this way, the poisoning of your personal maid is different from the situation where no one is poisoned, which will make His Majesty pay more attention to this matter."

"You...how could you do this? This is poison!"

Feng Ke glared at Qi Ning, both angry and anxious.

Of course he knew that the situation where no one was poisoned was different from the situation where his personal maid was poisoned, but he still couldn't let Qi Ning risk taking poison!

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