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

Upon hearing the sound, Imperial Physician Jiang opened his eyes and, seeing the Crown Prince's pained expression, closed them again without pity.

"Although the seven-day separation of souls was given by His Highness, His Highness is merely a pawn being used by others."

A chess piece? The eunuch who led him to the treasure vault!

The prince remembered everything.

With his mother's birthday approaching, he was troubled about what gift to give. As the crown prince, he had unlimited power, seemingly able to choose any good thing in the world. Only the crown prince himself knew that the so-called crown prince was nothing more than a bird kept in a gilded cage, completely ignorant of the world outside.

He had never paid attention to the palace servants around him until the eunuch put down his teacup and whispered in his ear, "Your Highness might as well go and take a look in the Emperor's treasure pavilion."

There were still a few days until his mother's birthday. He had originally planned to pick a day to go and see her, but the same eunuch said that the treasure pavilion had all sorts of things, and it would be difficult to find something to his liking.

The prince was intelligent and understood immediately, so he decided to go and take a look inside the treasure pavilion.

The treasure pavilion was huge, and he felt a little dizzy inside. Almost subconsciously, he followed the eunuch. Since the eunuch was serving tea, he didn't think there was anything wrong with him. Now that he thinks about it, it seems like the eunuch deliberately led him there.

Curiosity is a child's nature, and the box containing the pills was so special that it immediately caught his attention.

Physician Jiang was mistaken; there were three pills in the box, not two.

Born into the imperial harem, he was still somewhat wary.

He asked his father-in-law what the pills were. The father-in-law said they were tonics for prolonging life. He didn't believe him, so he casually picked one up and handed it to the father-in-law to take. The father-in-law looked flattered and repeatedly asked if it was really for him. He even asked the Crown Prince if the Emperor would blame him if he found out. Receiving an affirmative answer, he swallowed it without blinking.

He looked so anxious and flustered, as if he hadn't eaten anything good in eight lifetimes.

After smelling it, tasting it, and savoring it, he found the medicine quite delicious and wanted to give the remaining one to his mother.

If it weren't for the commotion outside the treasure pavilion, he would have swallowed the whole pill like that eunuch.

After leaving the treasure pavilion, it was that same eunuch who guided him to find his mother, and seemingly casually mentioned that Madam Lu had come to the palace to pay her respects to the Empress.

What happened next was just as Physician Jiang had said. He gave one of the pills to Madam Lu, who was Lu Zhiyuan's mother. The pill he had bitten was lost sometime later. He went back to look for it, but never did, and gradually forgot about it.

The Crown Prince never expected that he was the one who had caused Lu Zhiyuan to suffer a fate worse than death.

With red eyes, she gripped Physician Jiang's shoulders tightly and asked, "Where is that eunuch? Did you find him? Whose man is he, and why did he harm me like that?"

"He's gone mad!" Imperial Physician Jiang opened his eyes and looked into the Crown Prince's eyes. "Does Your Highness not remember? In the Imperial Garden, there was a madman who suddenly rushed up to Your Highness and smiled at you. Your Highness ordered him to be driven out, and he died at the palace gate, run over by a passing official's carriage. As for why he wanted to harm Your Highness, Your Highness has misunderstood. He never wanted to harm Your Highness, but the Xie family. Madam Xie and Yuan'er were merely innocent bystanders."

His family originally raised warhorses, but they harbored wicked intentions and replaced the warhorses with ordinary horses, causing the Northern Liang cavalry to suffer repeated defeats on the front lines. General Xie was in charge of investigating this matter. General Xie was upright and incorruptible; having uncovered the family's crimes, he would not let them go. With conclusive evidence, General Xie ordered him and his family to be escorted to the capital for review and a final verdict by the Ministry of Justice.

"Since he harbored evil intentions, it should have been General Xie who investigated him. Instead, he developed hatred for the Xie family because of this. He is indeed no good person."

“His hatred for General Xie wasn’t because of that.” Imperial Physician Jiang gestured for the Crown Prince to let go of his hand. “At that time, he was still young and didn’t know the inside story. He only knew that his home had been ransacked by General Xie. He and his family were escorted to the capital. When they were still a day away from the capital, his family was all killed, leaving only him to escape.”

"This is impossible!" The prince stood up agitatedly. "So many people died and we didn't see him? Was the assassin blind?"

Han Ting said, "Perhaps it was a narrow escape from death? When I was young, I was chased by my enemies and forced into the water. I can't swim, I'm a complete landlubber. They watched me struggle in the water, watched me sink to the bottom, thinking I was doomed. But I learned, and at that critical moment, right under their noses. I also helped someone else who narrowly escaped death. His enemies stabbed him more than a dozen times, but only one of the blows hit a vital spot. He was awakened by the heavy rain, crawled to a nearby farm, and was rescued by a barefoot doctor."

"The imperial eunuchs are well-prepared assassins; they won't let him escape so easily. At the very least, we should count how many are dead and how many are alive, and leave a couple more wounds for anyone still breathing." Lu Yun glanced at the Crown Prince, his eyes also filled with murderous intent. "Besides, eunuchs entering the palace cannot have any scars. Unless, he was deliberately placed in the palace by someone with ulterior motives."

“Young Master Lu is right.” Imperial Physician Jiang looked at Lu Yun: “It’s not that the assassin was blind, but that he deliberately let him go. As for the reason, it was of course instructed by the person behind the assassin. The person who saved him, the person who sent him to the palace, and the person who instilled in him that the Xie family was the murderer were all that person behind the scenes.”

"Who is he?" The prince's eyes grew even redder. "Tell me, who exactly is he?"

"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager!" Imperial Physician Jiang shook hands: "I was also shocked when I learned the truth. I thought about telling Her Majesty the Empress or the Xie family, but what difference would it make?"

The witnesses are dead, and there's no way to corroborate their claims. What I possess won't shake the Empress Dowager's authority; on the contrary, it will endanger the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Xie family, and the entire Jiang family.

Physician Jiang looked at Lu Zhiyuan: "Furthermore, when the truth was discovered, the Emperor and Empress had already arranged a marriage between Your Highness and Yuan'er. If Your Highness knew that you were one of the culprits who caused Yun'er's poisoning and Yuan'er's prolonged illness, how would Your Highness face Yun'er and Yuan'er? Since things have come to this, we have no choice but to keep it a secret. If Your Highness hadn't pressed me so hard, I would have taken this secret to the underworld with me."

Xie Chaoyun hadn't expected there to be so many connections behind this. She asked Imperial Physician Jiang if he was involved in the Empress Dowager's affairs. He neither admitted nor denied it, implying that he had also secretly contributed to the Empress Dowager's passing.

Xie Chaoyun felt tired and slowly walked up to Lu Zhiyuan. She looked at everyone and said, "That's enough. No matter what happened in the past, right or wrong, Yuan'er and I will not pursue it. Yuan'er is much better now. With the two imperial physicians, Cui and An, here, Imperial Physician Jiang, please go back."

Ignoring Physician Jiang's hesitation, she turned her gaze to the deeply affected Crown Prince: "As for Your Highness and Yuan'er, although I am your mother, it is not appropriate for me to interfere in your marital affairs. Yuan'er should make all the decisions herself."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "His Highness was still a child at that time, so there's no need to worry about the seven-day separation of his soul from his body."