Chapter 707 Is My Daughter Okay?

"What's the matter, father?" The eldest princess couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart when she saw the serious situation.

All I heard was the eunuch saying, "His Majesty had just finished the banquet when he suddenly collapsed to the ground and is now unconscious. The Duke is inside..."

Before she finished speaking, the princess rushed straight inside.

The couple hurried to follow.

On the bed, His Majesty opened his dying eyes: "Yue'er... Xin'er..."

"Father!" The eldest princess' voice couldn't help but be filled with tears. "How are you now? Why did you suddenly faint? Did someone harm you?"

When something happened to the emperor at the banquet, her first reaction was that someone had the audacity to murder the current emperor!

His Majesty coughed with some effort: "The Duke has sent people to investigate, but I think my health is failing. Even if others don't try to harm me, I will die sooner or later."

Although his coughing was not violent, it subtly affected his lungs, pulling at his body like an old bellows, causing pain in his internal organs and making people tremble with fear when they heard it.

Seeing this, the princess was shocked and puzzled. "Father, how could this happen? Didn't the imperial physician say you could live for six months when he last came to diagnose you? How could you decline so quickly?"

She held the emperor's hand tightly and said, "Father, don't lose heart. You can handle it!"

From childhood to adulthood, her father has always stood in front of her, like a towering mountain, protecting her from all the wind and rain.

She only needs to be herself to gain unlimited love from her father, so she has always been extremely dependent on the emperor.

Even though the emperor said he was sick during this period, she still deceived herself into thinking that it was not serious. After all, when he went to court every day, the emperor looked as majestic as usual, didn't he?

He protected her from countless attacks in the court, and after leaving the court, he carefully guided her on how to review memorials.

When she was on the verge of collapse because of the Crown Prince's affairs, it was her father who was by her side to comfort and guide her. How could such an omnipotent father suddenly grow old and decline to the point of being on the verge of death?

The eldest princess suddenly felt a great panic in her heart. She had never felt that her father's death was so close to her.

How could his father, the towering wall and giant who had always protected him, fall so easily and become a corpse, becoming a light posthumous title in history books?

No, she would never allow it!

There was a fear in her words that she herself was not aware of: "Father, please stop talking. All the imperial doctors are here. They will definitely be able to cure you! Oh, Divine Doctor Dou, don't they say that Divine Doctor Dou is very powerful?"

"Yue'er... I'm in poor health due to overdosing on medication..." The emperor tried to calm her down, but this weak call became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

The eldest princess said in a panic, "I'll go find someone right away. Xin'er, Duke, please help me take good care of my father. Don't let anyone harm him again!"

She didn't want to believe that her father was dying due to physical deterioration, because that meant there was no chance of recovery. If he was framed, at least she could find an antidote.

Before anyone could react, she rushed out in a hurry. The officials outside were silent, staring with numb eyes at the girl who was eagerly fleeing the palace. It seemed that they had already imagined the scene before them and had witnessed it thousands of times.

This scene that nearly brought the eldest princess to collapse was just an ordinary scenario.

Now Hu Xiner was the only one left in the room, standing in front of the bed. She looked at the body of her nominal father, not knowing what to feel.

The emperor looked at her without the same complicated emotions as before - the emotion of love and guilt that made Hu Xiner feel at a loss had disappeared.

She could clearly feel that the person in front of her was not looking at her, but Hu Xiner, who had exchanged identities with her and was living on Earth.

This actually made her feel a little relieved, and she was grateful to Zhao Yunxuan for speaking out about this matter as a disciple of a high monk - this avoided a lot of embarrassment.

As a result, she can finally escape the identity of this body and look at the person in front of her from her true perspective.

For some reason, after she had put aside her previous complicated emotions, she was actually more touched by the situation before her.

"My daughter, are you doing well?" The emperor moved his lips and finally asked in a trembling voice.

Hu Xiner glanced around calmly and found that except for her, the expressions of the people around her did not change. This meant that in this room, except for the emperor, no one else knew about her time travel.

Therefore, she didn't have to worry about Duke Xuanyuan suddenly changing his attitude.

When the emperor was in good health, he and Duke Xuanyuan worked well together and were the best partners. But now that the emperor was critically ill, they were no longer evenly matched. If the Duke insisted on becoming a hunter, even the princes would not be his match.

If he were to take advantage of the time travel, it would probably become a disaster.

As she expected, Duke Xuanyuan who was standing next to him only thought that this was the last instruction from His Majesty before his death. How could he have known how big a secret was hidden so close to him?

His expression was solemn and tinged with sadness. Hu Xin'er wasn't a seasoned courtier, so she couldn't tell how sincere the Duke truly was. She could only cautiously reply, "I'm doing well out there. Although it's an unfamiliar place, it's peaceful, free of scheming and conflict..."

The place she was talking about was China in her previous life, a rare peaceful country in the world. The country was strong, the people had hope, and all men were born equal. The poor girl would not be forced to marry the landlord's stupid son because of her gender, nor would she be forced to drown in a pond.

It is a place where most men and women fall in love freely, and as long as they work hard and are willing to make sacrifices, they will be rewarded.

That was a prosperous era, at least for this feudal and decadent dynasty, it was a world without all kinds of mysterious powers but extremely prosperous.

As she spoke quietly, she unknowingly brought up some of her past life experiences, without noticing that the Duke's expression was becoming increasingly subtle.

Not long after they returned, the intelligence spies in Qingzhou also sent news. Everyone knew how thrilling Hu Xiner's life in Qingzhou was.

The affair between the Shen and Zhou families is a major case of collusion between officials, businessmen and gangsters that has been rare in decades!

Hu Xiner, who was in the vortex with a big belly and a seriously ill mother-in-law, was able to hold on until the arrival of reinforcements. She is truly a brave and resourceful woman, a heroine!