Song Xizhi slowly closed his eyes. Before he could even feel the warmth on his lips, he heard a female voice behind him.

"Zhizhi?"

Song Xizhi froze, and hurriedly pulled the man's hand away from her face.

She turned her head stiffly and saw the displeased eyes of the Divine Physician Rihua.

For some reason, Song Xizhi suddenly felt a pang of guilt, as if he had been caught doing something wrong by an adult. His mind went blank, and he blurted out, "Master..."

He Jingyan's Adam's apple bobbed, and he quickly grabbed Song Xizhi's hand, shouting at her, "Master!"

The expression on the face of the renowned physician changed from displeasure to bewilderment. She first looked at Song Xizhi with confusion: "...You called me Master?"

Song Xizhi then suddenly came to his senses.

Before she could speak, she saw the Divine Physician Rihua slowly shift his gaze, raising his eyebrows as he looked in He Jingyan's direction: "You... also call me Master?"

Song Xizhi chuckled awkwardly, "I was too nervous and called her by the wrong name, hehehe..."

The Divine Physician of Japan remained noncommittal, but simply glanced in the direction of He Jingyan, giving him a slow and deliberate look.

When Song Xizhi saw the look in her eyes, he knew that she wanted to talk to him about the thing he had asked her to do before.

Song Xizhi originally wanted to say that she and He Jingyan had investigated this matter together, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to have He Jingyan listen in as well.

However, He Jingyan nodded to the Divine Physician Rihua and then politely withdrew, saying, "Master, I have other matters to attend to outside, so I will be leaving now."

The Japanese-Chinese doctor nodded, chin raised, looking like he didn't really want to talk to him: "You do have some sense."

After He Jingyan left, Song Xizhi and the divine physician Rihua returned to their bedroom.

The servants instinctively withdrew, and Song Xizhi then asked about her earlier thoughts: "Divine Physician, why do I feel like you don't quite like my...husband?"

The Divine Physician Rihua couldn't help but tap Song Xizhi's forehead. Looking at Song Xizhi's somewhat familiar face, he couldn't help but sigh, "There isn't a single good man in the world!"

Song Xizhi frowned slightly, but then heard the Divine Physician Rihua continue, "Your husband is no ordinary person."

"Just now I saw him talking to a woman outside, but now I see him in the courtyard with you."

Song Xi was taken aback, then asked, "When and where did you see your husband? And what did that woman look like?"

The Divine Physician Rihua raised an eyebrow slightly: "It was just now, near the Marquis's residence. However, the woman was wearing a cloak, which completely covered her face, so I didn't see her clearly."

Song Xizhi shook her head. Both reason and her intuition from their shared experience of life and death convinced her of He Jingyan's character.

“But my husband was in my grandmother’s courtyard just now. We chatted there for half an hour. He was already there before I arrived. He couldn’t possibly be outside the mansion.”

Upon hearing this, the renowned physician Rihua also reached out and gently tapped the square table.

After thinking for a while, she asked Song Xizhi to ask the people in the mansion if He Jingyan had left the mansion today.

Only after the servants all said no did the renowned physician, Rihua, finally relent.

"Then I might have misread it."

Song Xizhi frowned, still pondering: "Are you sure it's someone who looks exactly like my husband?"

The Divine Physician Rihua cautiously shook her head. Knowing that the servants said He Jingyan hadn't left the Marquis's residence, although she disliked men, she didn't want to wrong an innocent person. So she said, "I'm not very familiar with your husband, so I can't be completely sure."

Song Xizhi nodded as if he understood, but his mind was still elsewhere.

Seeing her like this, the divine physician Rihua brought up another matter: "I have found out what you asked me to investigate."

Upon hearing this, Song Xizhi's eyes lit up and he instantly perked up: "This powder can indeed be made into incense for feigning death, and even the prescription for the antidote is recorded in my mountains. However, this thing was not developed by me."

She handed Song Xizhi a yellowed prescription. The prescription looked quite old, but it was very well preserved.

When Song Xizhi took the prescription, he immediately recognized it as the one from his past life.

The above recipe is the same as the various medicinal materials that the emperor gave him that day.

Song Xizhi gripped the prescription tightly in her hand, feeling the kind gaze of the Japanese-Chinese divine physician before her, and tentatively asked, "Do you... know my mother?"

The renowned physician Rihua had not expected Song Xizhi to ask such a question.

After a long silence, she finally nodded: "Yes."

Song Xizhi clenched his hands, which were tucked into his sleeves, and asked cautiously, "My mother... what exactly happened to her? And how did she die?"

Her voice carried a hint of caution.

The Divine Physician Rihua clearly sensed Song Xizhi's urgency. She lowered her eyes and looked at the edge of the square table, simply saying, "This prescription was written by my senior brother. Perhaps my senior brother knows your mother."

Song Xizhi felt that things were not so simple, because when the senior sister first saw her face at the foot of Riyue Mountain, she showed a slightly surprised expression.

The eldest sister couldn't possibly know her, so it could only be her mother who had seen her before.

However, Song Xizhi could clearly see that the Divine Physician Rihua seemed to have something difficult to say, so he could only continue to ask, "Then where is your senior brother? Where is he?"

The divine physician Rihua spoke calmly, as if recalling the Wang family of the past: "His whereabouts are currently unknown."

When Song Xizhi pressed for more information, the Divine Physician Rihua refused to say anything more.

Song Xizhi sighed.

While things were peaceful and quiet at Ximoxuan, the other side of the Marquis's residence was in complete chaos.

After Huang woke up, she lay on the bed for a while before angrily going to find Huang Suyi to get an explanation.

Huang Suyi has now moved out of He Jingyan's Ximoxuan and moved to a small courtyard on her own. Although she did not move into the main courtyard of the Marquis of Anding, she lives near the Marquis of Anding's study.

Before Huang Shi even entered Huang Suyi's courtyard, she was stopped. Enraged, she wanted to order Huang Suyi to be dragged out, but the guards in the courtyard said that this was the Marquis of Anding's order.

As the mistress of the house, Madam Huang spent half an hour in the courtyard but did not even see her niece. So she gritted her teeth and stood at the courtyard gate for a long time before turning around and going to Song Ruoan's courtyard.

If we're talking about who's to blame for this, then it's Song Ruoan.

If she can't stand Huang Suyi, can she not stand Song Ruoan?