After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

Ronghua Palace needed renovations, and many craftsmen from the Ministry of Works came, making it quite inconvenient for them to come and go. Lu Zhiyuan went to the Empress and acted coquettishly, then moved with Liuying to Jinxiu Palace, living in the room where Consort Jin had hanged herself.

As Liu Ying stared at the beam, she felt a chill run down her spine and couldn't help but rub her arms.

"Miss, do we really have to stay in this room?"

Lu Zhiyuan hummed in agreement and asked Liu Ying if this room wasn't good. This was the main hall of the Brocade Palace, the largest and most spacious one.

Liu Ying pointed to the beam: "Isn't Miss afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Lu Zhiyuan frowned. "Afraid that in the dead of night, a person will suddenly appear hanging here?"

"Miss—" Liu Ying drawled, stamping her foot in exasperation, "Are you trying to scare me to death?"

"Don't worry, you won't be scared to death." Lu Zhiyuan walked up to Liu Ying and flicked her nose: "Remember this: people aren't scary, what's scary is the human heart. Ghosts aren't scary either, what's scary is the person hiding behind the ghost."

The firefly seemed to understand, yet also seemed not to, pondering to itself.

A Luo rushed over and knelt down as soon as he entered: "Miss Lu, please go and plead with the princess to spare my young master."

“Xiao Yebai? What did he do to the princess?” Lu Zhiyuan put down the object in her hand and gestured for Liuying to help Aluo up. “Isn’t he someone who never leaves the palace? I know, he’s avoiding me. He knows I’m moving to Jinxiu Palace and was afraid I’d drag him out to take his pulse, so he simply went out. Unfortunately, he ran into the princess. The princess couldn’t stand his expressionless, cold, lifeless… world-weary face, so she made things difficult for him.”

Aro shook his head: "The princess is standing up for the girl."

Lu Zhiyuan arrived at the Imperial Garden and saw Xiao Yebai hanging from a tree. The princess sat under the tree, holding her cat, occasionally throwing bits of fruit peel at him. Xiao Yebai remained calm as always, showing no sign of humiliation or anger.

Compared to what I saw that night, his face was paler, and his lips were a dark red with a hint of purplish-red, like a mulberry.

His poisoning has worsened.

How did Lu Jinyao in the original text cure such a potent poison?

Antidote?

Where did Lu Jinyao get the antidote?

From the poisoner!

Who poisoned her? It was Prince Yong'an. Only Prince Yong'an would offer Lu Jinyao such help. Unfortunately, Lu Jinyao and her mother were both extremely selfish and self-serving. For their own wealth and a bright future, they willingly allowed themselves to be used by Prince Yong'an in the early stages, used him in the middle stages, and betrayed him in the later stages, climbing to power by stepping on him.

Noticing someone watching her, Lu Zhiyuan looked up and met Xiao Yebai's gaze.

The two looked at each other across a few flowering trees, and for a moment the air became quiet.

His eyes were even more beautiful in the daytime, possessing a captivating charm.

Liu Ying couldn't help but whisper, "Miss, is that the hostage prince from Southern Chu who's being hung up? Should we ask the princess to let him down?"

Lu Zhiyuan realized what was happening, pursed her lips, and shook her head. "He wasn't whipped or beaten, he was just hung up. He seems quite satisfied with his expression. Go ask the princess for some melon seeds, we can eat them while we watch."

“Miss, my young master has an injured arm. If he continues to hang like this, his arm will be ruined.” A Luo was about to kneel down again, but Lu Zhiyuan stretched out her leg to stop him.

Hearing the voice, Princess Ping Le turned around and exclaimed in surprise, "Yuan'er, you've come? I've captured the Southern Chu hostage who injured you. How do you want to torture him? Skin him, pull out his tendons, gouge out his eyes..."

With each word Princess Ping Le uttered, A Luo's face paled further. She wanted to rescue Xiao Ye Bai in front of everyone, but she was also afraid of offending these nobles of Bei Liang, especially Princess Ping Le, who was showered with affection. She could only look to Lu Zhi Yuan for help.

Lu Zhiyuan tossed her hair, walked up to the princess, and petted the cat in her arms.

"Your Highness, murder is a crime!"

"I am a princess, who dares to interrogate me?"

"It seems, there's some kind of Imperial Clan Court?" Lu Zhiyuan pinched the cat's ears: "Even the emperor is subject to the same laws as commoners. Besides, the one you're going to skin, pull out tendons, and gouge out eyes is a hostage from Southern Chu. Princess, he's a prince, after all."

Princess Ping Le pouted: "I didn't say I would really tear, really slap, or really gouge. I was just trying to scare him. Who told him to hurt your hand? You are my friend. Bullying you is bullying me."

She really does have the temperament of a little princess.

Lu Zhiyuan glanced at her own hand: "The princess hung him up just because of my hand? I accidentally dropped my hand. If the princess really wants revenge, she should send people to dig up the ground of Jinxiu Palace."

Princess Ping Le rolled her eyes and said, "Come on, go and dig up the ground of that Jinxiu Palace."

Lu Zhiyuan quickly stopped her.

Ronghua Palace is under renovation. If the grounds of Jinxiu Palace are also dug up, she will have no choice but to live in Shuanghua Palace, which the Empress has arranged for her. Unlike Jinxiu Palace, Shuanghua Palace is easy to enter but difficult to leave, and she doesn't want to trap herself in this situation.

With a few words, they calmed the princess down and got help from Liuying and Aluo to lower Xiao Yebai down from the tree. They hadn't looked closely before, but now they noticed that his right arm did look rather strange.

The pulse diagnosis failed last time; it could be due to an external injury, or she might have been too focused on other issues and overlooked it. Of course, it could also be due to her lack of medical skill. After all, killing is her primary profession; medicine is just something she learned incidentally.

As soon as his fingers touched her, Xiao Yebai pushed her back, only to be stopped by a glare from Lu Zhiyuan.

"Roll up your sleeves!"

Xiao Yebai glanced at her but didn't move.

Lu Zhiyuan reached out and pushed his sleeve up to his elbow. Although there were injuries on his wrist and forearm, they were all superficial and wouldn't cause him any discomfort. Her gaze moved upwards, landing on Xiao Yebai's neck.

Xiao Yebai awkwardly adjusted his collar.

The next second, Lu Zhiyuan reached out and ripped open his clothes. Xiao Yebai panicked and shouted, "Miss Lu, what are you doing?"

"Take off my clothes, isn't my action obvious enough?"

Princess Ping Le, clutching her cat, huddled among the palace maids, watching the spectacle with wide eyes. Liu Ying covered her mouth, thinking to herself, "This young lady is too bold! In the inner palace, right in front of the princess, she's actually stripping the hostage prince of his clothes! If this gets back to the Emperor and Empress, will they force her to marry the hostage prince?"

A Luo was also frightened. He wanted to help but was afraid of offending Lu Zhiyuan. If he didn't help, he was afraid that his young master would suffer. He was extremely anxious.

Fortunately, Lu Zhiyuan only pulled her clothes up to her shoulders.

Lu Zhiyuan pinched his shoulder blade, which seemed to be broken in one place: "Did Consort Jin hit you? Xiao Yebai, how could you bear it? It must hurt a lot to have your bones like this?"

"It's alright!" Xiao Yebai glanced at her and silently pulled his clothes up.

A Luo stepped forward with red eyes, first looking at Xiao Yebai, then at Lu Zhiyuan: "One night half a year ago, the young master was admiring the moon in the courtyard, very quietly, without making a sound. Consort Jin saw this and said that the young master was resentful and deliberately woke her up to prevent her from sleeping. The injury on the young master's shoulder was caused by Consort Jin stepping on it and hitting it with the blue-and-white stones surrounding the flowerbed."

"Ah Luo!" Xiao Yebai didn't want to talk about these things, so he stood up, supporting his shoulders.