Reborn as the Regent's Beloved

As Xuan Hua, Zi Hua, and the guards entered the room, a strong smell of blood filled the air.

"Miss!"

Following the scent of blood, Zi Hua saw Xiao Fengyi lying in a pool of blood, letting out a pig-like scream. She pounced over, checking for breath.

"Miss, wake up!"

"Miss, what's wrong? Who poisoned you!"

The guards also walked to her side and found that she was still alive. After observing Xiao Fengyi's complexion, they determined what had happened.

"She's been poisoned!"

Zi Hua asked, sobbing, "What kind of poison did Miss suffer from?"

Her expression suggested she wasn't surprised by her young mistress's poisoning; one could only assume the guards were also alarmed, otherwise they would have noticed her unusual behavior.

“The poison… is probably White Frost Dew, a very rare poison.” The guard assessed the situation while lifting Xiao Fengyi’s eyelids and checking her pulse.

His examination made Zi Hua and Xuan Hua, who was watching from a distance, break out in a cold sweat. They felt that the guard was not examining Xiao Fengyi's body, but rather checking if she was truly poisoned.

Xiao Fengyi frowned, trying to wake up several times but failing, while blood kept flowing from her mouth.

Seeing her unconscious state, the guards finally believed that she had been poisoned.

"I'll give your young lady some medicine, and she should be fine."

Xuan Hua and Zi Hua watched as the guards fed Xiao Fengyi the antidote, gripping his wrists tightly, but they did not stop him.

The guards looked suspicious when they saw that the two maids did not stop them, but they still fed the medicine into Xiao Fengyi's mouth.

But the maid's expression was indeed panicked, and it seemed genuine. The guard finally believed that Xiao Fengyi had been poisoned.

With a gurgling sound, Xiao Fengyi swallowed the medicine, but the maid suddenly launched an attack.

Zi Hua pointed at the guards and accused them, "Was it you? Did you poison Miss?"

The guard turned around and immediately denied it.

"No."

Xuan Hua said coldly from behind, "You just said that our young lady was poisoned by White Frost Dew, a rare poison, but why do you have the antidote? Could it be that you poisoned her?"

"I..." The guard never expected that his good intention of detoxifying the eldest daughter of the Xiao family would leave him speechless.

Seeing that he couldn't explain, Zi Hua deliberately cried, "It was you, it was you who poisoned Miss, otherwise... how could he have fainted? He was perfectly fine just now."

"I really didn't poison anyone. I can produce the antidote, but I just happened to have the antidote from the White Frost." The guard held the medicine bottle, looking as if he had no way to defend himself.

"You're kidding!"

Zi Hua certainly believed it was just a "coincidence," but everything was within the young lady's calculations; she only knew that they had Bai Shuanglu in their hands.

Leaning against the edge of the massive pillar, Xuan Hua sobbed softly, looking as if she was about to faint. "Miss, Miss, why are you vomiting so much blood!"

The guard, also facing accusations, suddenly realized that these people were trying to shift the blame onto him.

He certainly didn't want to take the blame, so he pointed at Xiao Fengyi's two maids and said, "Stop acting! Your young lady took poison at home, don't try to frame our Highness!"

Zi Hua cried out, "But you clearly said that if the Seventh Prince doesn't leave, Qixia Courtyard will be his temporary palace and will not belong to the Xiao family."

The boomerang struck unexpectedly, leaving the guard speechless.

Seeing that it was working, Zi Hua continued her accusations, "Our young lady is perfectly fine, why would she take poison? It was clearly you who poisoned her!"

"What good would it do us to poison your young lady? It's obvious that your young lady didn't want to come forward and expose King Zhao, so she resorted to this method," the guard retorted sharply.

How did this guard see through it?

Zi Hua panicked a little. She knew she had to resort to crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide to prevent Feng Mingjing from slandering her young mistress.

"Wah!" A loud cry burst out, "You're talking nonsense! Our young lady wouldn't have gotten poison from us!"

The guard, holding the long sword at his waist, calmly said, "I've heard that your young lady is skilled in medicine, so carrying a packet of poison shouldn't be difficult for her."

Zi Hua sat on the ground, tears streaming down her face, pointing at him, "Are you even speaking human language? Our young lady is a healer, someone who treats people, not a poison master. Why would she carry poison with her? Don't make false accusations!"

You're spouting nonsense!

This crime is really serious!

The guards followed the two maids into the room to deliver a message from the Seventh Prince to Xiao Fengyi, never expecting to encounter this scene.

Regardless of the reason why Xiao Fengyi took the poison, she cannot become a pawn of the Seventh Prince tomorrow. This is a matter of great importance, and we must inform the Seventh Prince as soon as possible to see how he will handle it.

"I'm not going to talk to you. I'm going to report to the Seventh Prince and let him decide!" After saying this, the guard left the room.

He passed by Xuan Hua like a gust of wind, completely unaware that Xuan Hua had stopped crying and was now smiling.

The guards finally left, and it seems that the young lady's plan to fake her death has succeeded?

As Xuan Hua leaned against the pillar, she remained silent, waiting for the man to leave.

Suddenly, a drop of sweat landed on the tip of her nose. Xuan Hua subconsciously looked up and saw a man dressed in black.

Standing on the roof beam, Ye Si finally understood everything.

What Xiao Fengyi just ate was not some "phantom death medicine," but the real poison, White Frost.

She had calculated that Feng Mingjing would send a guard to deliver a message, and she took the medicine at the exact time so that the guard would come to her aid.

Xiao Fengyi had accurately predicted the existence of such a rare poison as Bai Shuang Liu Lu. While this poison might be rare for others, it was not for Feng Mingjing.

At Qixia Courtyard, she wanted to create the illusion that Fengming Mirror had poisoned her, so that she could smoothly get rid of that venomous snake.

He asked Xuan to make a "shh" gesture, meaning not to speak.

Xuan Hua had never seen this man before, nor did she know his identity, but her intuition told her that he meant no harm and posed no threat.

She nodded calmly, without saying anything more.

Seeing that Xuan Hua didn't speak, Ye Si smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

When Feng Mingjing arrived, Ye Si had already taken the opportunity to leave and ran to inform Feng Xingye, so he didn't know how devastated the Seventh Prince was when he heard that the two maids were crying together, and the unconscious Xiao Fengyi made him even more miserable.

He lifted the curtain and saw Xiao Fengyi, her face pale, lashing out at everyone in the room.

"What's the matter!"

Xuanhua and Zihua were so busy crying that they completely ignored the man's outburst beside them.

Fearing the consequences, the guards around him deliberately said, "Your Highness, Xiao Fengyi did not want to expose Prince Zhao's secret hoarding of iron ore, so she committed suicide by poisoning herself!"

"Did she commit suicide by poisoning?"

This is unbelievable. Feng Mingjing doesn't believe that Xiao Fengyi would risk her life for Feng Xingye.