After my luck was stolen, I led my whole family to defy fate and change our destiny.

"Your Excellency, please advise your son. I'm doing this for your own good."

Gu Mingtang: "I do acknowledge my second son's medical skills."

The judge choked on his words.

"Say it again, and I'll drag you away." Chu Jingyan clenched his fists.

"Then Your Highness, punish me! I would never allow a mere youth to administer acupuncture to His Majesty."

If we can't cure His Majesty, can't we at least protect him?

"Let him treat you"

The Empress Dowager walked in from outside the room, exuding an overwhelming aura of power.

"Your Majesty, this is against the rules..."

"What do you mean by 'against the rules'? I am the rule!"

"Queen Mother..."

The Empress Dowager interrupted him: "Alright, stop talking. If anything goes wrong, I will take responsibility and will not hold the Imperial Hospital accountable..."

The judge fell silent: "Yes."

"Young Master Gu, you must heal His Majesty properly."

"Yes, Queen Mother"

Gu Liyao took a deep breath and focused on administering acupuncture, first relieving the Emperor's pain and reviving the uncorroded meridians, and then completing all of this.

He looked at the judge: "Your Honor, may I borrow your wound medicine?"

The Imperial Medical Academy's wound medicine is definitely the best, and he naturally couldn't concoct a better medicine than the Imperial Medical Academy in a short period of time.

"No, young friend, applying medicine to His Majesty's wounds before only made them fester even more."

This was also what puzzled him greatly; he had never seen anything so bizarre.

It's because it's stimulated by toxins.

"It's alright, Your Honor, you just need to give it to me."

"This……"

The Empress Dowager kicked the head of the academy: "Just give it to me!"

“good good”

The court judge took the medicine out of the box and handed it to Gu Liyao. Gu Liyao carefully applied the medicine to His Majesty and then wrapped the bandage around his neck.

After a while, Chu Yuan frowned. He had fainted earlier and had a dream in which he was entangled by a black loach, and no matter what he did, he couldn't break free.

Just as he was watching his body slowly decay in despair, a white tiger suddenly descended from the sky.

The white tiger was both beautiful and majestic. It roared, and the black mudfish immediately released him and fled. The white tiger rushed up and killed him with a single swipe of its paw.

The white tiger slowly approached Chu Yuan, nudged him with its head, and then the white tiger transformed into Gu Linglong.

Gu Linglong saved him.

The Empress Dowager saw Chu Yuan's slightly twitching fingers and called out, "Emperor?"

"Father"

"His Majesty"

Chu Yuan slowly opened his eyes and met a pair of beautiful amber eyes.

Oh, you're awake!

The Empress Dowager wept with joy: "Emperor, you've finally woken up?"

"I've caused Mother some worry."

"It's good that you're awake, it's good that you're awake."

The chief physician and the kneeling imperial physicians all stepped forward to take the emperor's pulse.

The judge was the first to rush forward; wow, that's really strange.

"Your Majesty, are you feeling better? You were able to wake up this time thanks to this young friend from the Gu family."

Chu Yuan turned to look at Gu Liyao: "A hero emerges from among the young! Reward him."

Thank you, Your Majesty.

The court judge, no longer displaying his previous aggressive demeanor, pulled Gu Liyao aside and said, "Young friend, I apologize for my inappropriate remarks earlier. How did you treat His Majesty just now?"

He regretted it terribly because he didn't believe Judge Gu Liyao and hadn't even looked at it.

"Yes, yes, young friend, would you like to demonstrate it with us?"

Gu Liyao discussed things with the chief physician and the other imperial physicians for a while before being pulled away by Gu Mingtang.

Chu Yuan only woke up for a short while before falling asleep again, leaving the rest to the Imperial Hospital.

The next day, just as Gu Linglong was happily eating her steamed egg custard, an imperial decree arrived from the palace.

Gu Linglong was granted the title of County Princess, a fief of a thousand households, ten thousand taels of gold, and a hundred bolts of cotton. She received even more rewards!

Gu Linglong couldn't stop smiling. She picked up a piece of gold and bit it. Oh my, it's all real! She hugged it to her arms and wouldn't give it to anyone. She was rich! She was rich!

The emperor wasn't saved in vain!

Gu Liyao was offered a hundred taels of gold, a set of silver needles, a rare medical book, and a token from the Imperial Medical Academy, allowing him to enter the Imperial Medical Academy at any time to discuss medical techniques with the imperial physicians.

This was an incredible gift to Gu Liyao.

Gu Liyao was only happy for a few days before Su Xiuran dragged him to go on blind dates everywhere. She can't control the eldest son, so can't she control the second one?

He had been driven crazy by his mother lately, but he finally convinced her that he didn't want to go on blind dates.

He excitedly carried the rare book outside, reading it while basking in the sun, when he ran into Chen Xining.

"Second Young Master"

"Miss Chen"

The two were acquaintances who only nodded to each other.

Suddenly, a maid rushed over: "Miss, the matron said that two children from the charity hall have gone missing, and several others are sick. She asked if you could help report it to the authorities. She hadn't even gotten close to the government office when the officers chased her away because of her clothes."

Chen Xining handed Gu Linglong to Gu Liyao, then lifted her skirt and rushed out.

"Hey, wait a minute, what are you going to do like this?"

"Then...what should we do? I can't just stand by and watch someone die, can I?"

"Wait for me, I'll grab my first-aid kit and take a few people with me."

"Alright, thank you very much, Second Young Master."

Gu Liyao had someone report the case to the authorities, and the government office immediately sent people to investigate when they heard that it was the second son of the Minister's family who reported the case.

When Gu Liyao arrived at the charity hall, two little boys were lying on the bed, groaning in pain.

"Brother Liyao, I have a headache."

"It hurts so much!"

Chen Xining patted the little boy's hand reassuringly, "It'll be fine in a bit. Your brother Liyao is here; he's the best."

"Yes, Brother Liyao is the best!"

Gu Liyao reached out to take their pulses, then touched the heads of both children: "They have a fever."

The pulse was a bit strange. The medicine in Gu Liyao's medicine box had been talismaned by Gu Linglong. If the illness was caused by demonic possession, it could be expelled.

Gu Liyao quickly put it on the two children.

Then they found a handkerchief, wet it with hot water, and applied it to the boy's head.

"Do you feel better?"

"I feel better. I want Sister Xining to hold me while I sleep."

Another boy opened his mouth and said, "I want Brother Liyao to hold me while I sleep."

Chen Xining held the smaller child in his arms and walked around, patting his back.

The door wasn't closed, and sunlight streamed in, falling on Chen Xining's face. A strand of hair gently brushed against her cheek, and Gu Liyao suddenly had a thought: he really wanted to brush that strand of hair away.

Realizing what he was thinking, Gu Liyao's ears immediately turned red. Gu Liyao then imitated Chen Xining by patting the back of the child in his arms.

"Cough cough cough, Brother Liyao, be gentle!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, brother, you hit me too hard."

The old woman at the door glanced over and remarked, "They really look like a couple coaxing a child."

Gu Liyao and Chen Xining both blushed.

Gu Liyao dared not look in Chen Xining's direction anymore. After coaxing the two children to sleep, Gu Liyao took Chen Xining home.

"Thank you, Second Young Master."

"No...you're welcome, you're practically my junior sister too."

Chen Xining nodded and went inside. Gu Liyao stared at Chen Xining’s hair ribbon fluttering in the wind, somewhat lost in thought. How could she even make the hair ribbon look so beautiful?

The coachman reminded him, "Young master, Miss Chen has been inside for quite some time. Shall we go back?"

Gu Liyao then realized: "Oh, go back."

"Miss Chen truly lives up to her reputation as Dean Chen's daughter."

Gu Liyao: "?"