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

With the poison removed, Physician Jiang was completely devastated.

Ever since discovering that Xie Chaoyun had been poisoned by the Seven-Day Soul Separation Technique, he hadn't had a single day of peace. Desperate for an antidote, he locked himself in the Imperial Hospital, scouring every book in the facility. On the verge of collapse, he remembered the Imperial Preceptor's former residence. With tremendous effort, he finally found the Imperial Preceptor's secret chamber in the ruins. The medicinal herbs and elixirs were gone, leaving only scattered Buddhist scriptures, medical books, and trampled prescriptions. He brought them all back and, after three days and three nights of arduous work, finally found the formula for the Seven-Day Soul Separation Technique.

Just as Lu Zhiyuan said, he knew the recipe and which poisonous insects and herbs were needed to refine the Seven-Day Soul Separation, but he didn't know the order in which they were to be refined. To figure it out, he spent another three months trying to gather all the poisonous insects and herbs. His idea was that as long as he refined an identical Seven-Day Soul Separation, he could find the corresponding antidote. Three months passed, and he hadn't even collected all the ingredients for the first prescription.

Not to mention that those poisonous plants and insects are hard to find, even if he knew they were all there, he wouldn't be able to retrieve them all, given his abilities.

Concerning the seven-day separation of the soul, he couldn't use the Jiang family's connections, nor could he let the Xie and Lu families know. His despair was unimaginable. At his wit's end, Heaven took pity on him and granted him a handwritten letter. In the letter, the Imperial Advisor mentioned the seven-day separation of the soul and a cure, but the prescription was incomplete because the incident happened so suddenly that the Imperial Advisor hadn't finished writing it.

The incomplete prescription not only failed to work, but also aggravated the toxicity of the Seven-Day Soul Separation Technique, causing Xie Chaoyun to lose weight drastically and become emaciated. As a result, rumors spread that the fetus in her womb was a demon that had come to take revenge on her.

Physician Jiang was clutching his hair, his expression one of extreme pain.

"Aside from those two doses of medication to prevent miscarriage, I haven't given Yuan'er any other medicine. At least I haven't targeted Yuan'er."

When he let go, he looked pitiful.

“I was the first person Yuan’er saw after she was born. That day, the midwife carried her out of the delivery room. She was so small and delicate. Her eyes were closed, her face was round and very fair, just like Yun’er when she was little. By such a coincidence, she opened her eyes and grinned at me. At that moment, I regretted it, I regretted wanting her to disappear.”

Physician Jiang cried. Lu Zhiyuan had never seen him cry before. Even Xie Chaoyun, who was determined to blame him and kill him, was stunned.

"Because of the seven-day separation of her soul and those antidotes, she was born incomplete and suffered from multiple diseases. Saying she wouldn't live past the age of marriage was just to comfort Yun'er. In fact, given her condition at the time, she wouldn't have lived more than three to five days. I couldn't bear to see Yun'er in such pain, and I also wanted Yuan'er to live, so I did everything I could to save her life. All the prescriptions, whether in the Marquis's mansion or the villa, are on file, and you are free to check them."

"I believe you." Lu Zhiyuan patted Physician Jiang's head.

"You believe me?" Physician Jiang stammered, "They don't believe me, why do you believe me? Yuan'er, you should hate me, you should want to kill me."

Physician Jiang roared, "Lu Yun, Lu Yun can kill me in your place. I will not blame you; everything is what I deserve."

Lu Yun couldn't help but say, "You think I don't want to kill you? Harming our young lady is enough for me to cut you into a thousand pieces."

Lu Zhiyuan glared at Lu Yun, who fell silent and looked at Han Ting beside him.

Han Ting reminded him, "Killing is one thing, but why are you calling yourself 'I'? In front of Miss, you should also refer to yourself as 'I'. You deserve to be glared at by her."

Lu Yun touched his nose and didn't say anything more.

Lu Zhiyuan didn't trust Physician Jiang, but rather the system. She had asked the system, and it confirmed that her illness was indeed unrelated to Physician Jiang.

Physician Jiang knew Lu Zhiyuan's temperament and knew the truth couldn't be hidden. Rather than waiting for her to investigate, it was better for him to tell the truth. Perhaps the outcome wasn't as bad as he imagined. He lowered his eyes and said softly, "It was all an accident!"

Upon learning of Xie Chaoyun's pregnancy, the Empress summoned her and bestowed upon her some everyday items. The Empress originally intended to have Xie Chaoyun stay for a meal, but due to the Empress Dowager's sudden summons, she had no choice but to have her personal eunuch escort her out of the palace.

The Empress meant no harm; she simply wanted to maintain a good relationship with the Xie family. The gifts she gave Xie Chaoyun were all of the highest quality, without any tampering. In fact, she was even more eager than Xie Chaoyun for the child's birth, hoping it would become an asset to the Crown Prince.

The Jiang family is useless; she still needs to find someone for her son to rely on.

Even without what happened later, she would still have chosen Lu Zhiyuan to be her daughter-in-law and the Crown Princess of Beiliang.

The Empress left the palace first, and met the Crown Prince on the way, giving him a few words of advice. The Crown Prince admired strength and respected both General Xie and Xie Chaoyun. When he learned that Xie Chaoyun was getting married, he even asked the Empress why such a majestic female general would marry a good-for-nothing marquis who relied on his ancestors' good fortune.

Knowing that Xie Chaoyun was pregnant and would soon give birth to a baby, he was curious and wanted to go see her. It wasn't that he didn't have younger brothers and sisters, but that he had never seen them while they were still in his womb.

“I remember now, I did see him the day Lady Xie entered the palace.” The Crown Prince said, “What does this have to do with the seven-day separation of souls?”

"Your Highness might as well recall again," Imperial Physician Jiang reminded him. "Where else did Your Highness go before going to the Empress's palace?"

"I'm going to the Treasure Pavilion to choose a birthday gift for my mother."

"What did Your Highness take from the treasure pavilion?"

"What did I take?" The Crown Prince frowned, trying hard to recall: "I didn't take anything... No, that's not right, I took two pills. They were in a brocade box and had an enticing fragrance. I asked the eunuch who accompanied me, and he said they were longevity pills."

"Doesn't Your Highness have any doubts? If it's a longevity pill, why isn't it kept in the Imperial Hospital, but in the Treasure Pavilion?"

"Of course I asked. The eunuch replied that the Imperial Hospital is outside the palace, and it is not very convenient to come and go. Although there are temporary rest areas inside the palace, there are too many people and too many eyes, so it is not suitable to store such valuable things. For a period of time, the Emperor was obsessed with Taoist arts and immortality, and he stored a lot of so-called elixirs in the treasure pavilion. In addition to those two pills, I also saw other pills, which were different from these two, and they were all in whole boxes or jars."

"Hasn't Your Highness considered why only one of them has two?"

"Of course, Father Emperor ate them." The Crown Prince answered without hesitation. "I tasted those pills. They were similar to the hawthorn pills that A-Yuan made. They tasted sweet and sour, but the aftertaste was a bit bitter. I originally intended to eat both pills, but after taking only a small bite, someone came to the outside of the Treasure Pavilion, so I hid the pills in my sleeve and took them out. After that, I met Mother Emperor, and then I met Lady Xie."

"His Highness gave one of the pills to Yun'er." Imperial Physician Jiang said with his eyes closed, "Because it was a gift from His Highness, Yun'er thought it was an ordinary candy pill and ate it without suspicion. Those two pills were the only two remaining seven-day soul-separating pills left by the Imperial Preceptor."

With a clang, the sword fell to the ground.