Lu Tianjiao had actually heard of this eminent monk before, but had never met him in person. That was why he introduced Mei Xiyuan to him.

Thinking of this, she frowned and said, "Alright, in that case, I will immediately soak this talisman and help Your Highness wipe your eyes."

Lu Tianjiao suddenly clenched the wordless talisman tightly in his right hand and placed it in front of his chest, his gaze firm, as if he had poured all his hopes into it.

Now that Yi Shangyun is dead and her body is torn to pieces, it means that her brother Han will surely change his mind one day. When that time comes, they will surely return to the happy days they once shared.

She was never afraid of scheming and fighting wits with the women beside him; she was only afraid that her Han-gege's heart and eyes were filled with the shadows of other people.

Just moments ago, when she learned from Xiao Ling'er that Yi Shangyun had passed away, the deep fear and helpless sadness that had welled up in her heart suddenly turned into a sense of relief and unwavering belief after she poured out her heart to Xuan Yuanhan on his sickbed.

She was grateful that she had known her brother Han so well since childhood, she was grateful that she had managed to send Mei Xiyuan away from the Qin Prince's Mansion, and she was even more grateful that she had been so clever as to do all of this, which enabled her to successfully enter Lin Yuexuan to serve the person she had been thinking about day and night. For her, this was such a happy thing.

She believed that, with the passage of time, one day she would be able to completely banish the image of Yi Shangyun from her brother Han's heart, even if it was the only and most important thing she would have to accomplish in her entire life.

At this moment, how she longed for this day to come sooner. Yes, he had to wake up as soon as possible; only then could she enter his heart.

Just as she was full of confidence and eagerly about to step towards the basin of hot water, a guard suddenly reached out and stopped her, saying, "Miss Lu, the water in the basin is still very hot. The princess instructed the high monk repeatedly that this talisman must be soaked in warm water to be effective. So, it's not too late to soak the talisman and wipe His Highness later. Miss, you've already stayed up most of the night at Lin Yuexuan, look at those dark circles under your eyes. Why don't you eat something first, so you'll have the energy to continue serving His Highness in the latter half of the night?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Tianjiao quickly rubbed his eyes, but he had never been in the habit of eating in the middle of the night. Not wanting to keep refusing the guard's good intentions, he said indifferently, "Then you can leave it there for now. I'm not really hungry right now. I can take it and eat it later when I'm hungry."

The guards never expected that Lu Tianjiao, an unmarried young lady from a prominent family, would take such good care of her master without any regard for propriety and without even eating or sleeping. At this moment, her unwavering feelings for Xuan Yuanhan were already obvious to everyone in the Qin Prince's mansion.

Seeing that she was only focused on the person lying on the sickbed, the guard had no choice but to pick up the bowl of tea with the hidden secret inside and slowly walk to Lu Tianjiao to offer it to her with both hands, saying, "That's fine. However, this bowl of jasmine tea is very refreshing. His Highness used to drink a lot of it when he stayed up late. Tonight, why don't you let Miss Lu try it as well? This tea must be drunk while it's hot, it won't be good if it gets cold."

Sure enough, perhaps because she had been talking for too long, Lu Tianjiao was indeed a little thirsty. However, she was probably more interested in the fact that this was something Xuan Yuanhan liked, and as the saying goes, "love me, love my dog," so she quickly turned her gaze to the steaming teacup. She happily took it and brought it close to her nose to smell it with great interest. After examining it carefully for a while, she said with a smile, as if talking to herself, "Is this really the tea that Brother Han likes? Well, I really am a little thirsty."

As soon as he finished speaking, he covered his face and slowly drank it all in one gulp.

At this point, the guard finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had just promised Physician Yue that he had watched Lu Tianjiao drink the entire bowl of tea with his own eyes. Only then did he feel at ease. He quietly let out a breath and said, "Then, I will take my leave. Tonight, Your Highness will have to trouble Miss Lu."

"Yes, you can go and rest now. I will do my best to take good care of His Highness," Lu Tianjiao said with a smile.

At midnight, the guards withdrew, and Lin Yuexuan returned to silence.

To make the person sleeping on the sickbed more comfortable, Lu Tianjiao took out a pair of golden scissors and personally extinguished most of the candles in Lin Yuexuan's bedroom, leaving only a few dim lights that swayed gently in the breeze. Their shadows cast on the wall seemed to appear as if they were immortals who only appeared in the dark and silent night, displaying their breathtakingly beautiful and unparalleled dance moves.

After trimming the candle flame, she stood quietly in the main hall and glanced around at the perfectly soft light. She seemed quite satisfied with the atmosphere, and a very pleasant smile appeared on her face.

Just then, she noticed that the water in the basin by the window seemed to have cooled down considerably. She slowly walked over, lifted one sleeve, and gracefully wiped the water with her fair, delicate hand. Instantly, a very comfortable warm current seemed to wash over her entire body. She then smiled, pursed her lips, and withdrew her hand, muttering to herself, "Brother Han must really like this temperature."

So he slowly took out the blank talisman that the guard had just brought in from his sleeve, and slowly unfolded and straightened it little by little. However, no matter how he turned it over and over, he could not find a single word or stroke inside or out.

Although she was puzzled and confused, she still followed the guard's instructions and gently flattened the yellow talisman, letting it float on the warm water in front of her. This was because everyone had an almost obsessive faith in the highly virtuous monk at the City God Temple in the south of the city.

Just as she was soaking in the holy water with a joyful and expectant expression, completely absorbed in the experience, she suddenly felt her vision flickering. Her whole body swayed slightly, and she almost fainted. After regaining her balance, she frowned slightly and muttered to herself, "Could it be that I'm really exhausted and sleepy?"

Just as he was wondering, he seemed to faintly hear a murmur coming from the person on the sickbed. Lu Tianjiao was startled. Whether he was surprised or happy was still unknown, so he hurriedly walked to the bedside to check.

However, when she approached the bed and looked at it carefully, she saw that although the person on the bed was still a little pale and weak, he still had a delicate and cold celestial profile, seemingly no different from before. She couldn't help but wonder and murmured, "Could it be that I wanted Brother Han to wake up so much that I was hallucinating?"

While she was still pondering this, she slowly turned back to look at the basin of water by the window, wanting to go over and bring over the holy water that had already soaked the talisman, so that she could wipe her brother Han's eyes with the holy water as soon as possible to ensure his safety and help him wake up quickly.

As she was pondering this with her head down and slowly pacing around, she suddenly looked up and saw a very familiar figure in a crimson palace dress flash past the entrance of the bedchamber. She couldn't help but stop and shout loudly at the figure's back, "Who's there?"

After a while, seeing that no one answered, a sense of dread rose in her heart.

But why, despite recognizing this familiar figure, could she not recall when or where she had seen it before, no matter how hard she tried?

But before one problem could be solved, another arose.

As she pondered the seemingly hallucinatory scene before her, she found herself inexplicably drawn to the basin of water by the window.

So she simply removed the talisman from the basin and reached for the water, but she suddenly stared wide-eyed at the water in front of her, as if she had been frightened. Her face turned deathly pale, her cherry-like mouth opened wider and wider, and then her mouth and her whole body seemed to tremble and shake.

Finally, after letting out a scream that sounded like extreme fear, she quickly covered her head and retreated, curling up and hiding behind the table in the middle of the bedchamber.

It turned out that, under the dim candlelight, the yellow talisman had somehow sunk deep into the bottom of the basin, while a picture had miraculously appeared on the surface of the water.

This painting was created by Physician Yue using alum and Scutellaria baicalensis to create this yellow talisman. To onlookers, it appears as if there is nothing on the surface, but after soaking in water and removing the paper, the contents of the talisman will automatically float to the surface without any loss of detail.

The scene depicted in the painting is the devastating fire that raged eight years ago at the City God Temple in the south of the city.

It was this painting that instantly and completely shattered the last vestiges of Lu Tianjiao's sanity after he drank the "Inviting the Guest into the Urn" tea, which also contained a small amount of hallucinogenic datura flower. Seeing this, Lu Tianjiao finally broke down completely.

At that moment, the sky outside the window suddenly became as dark as ink, shrouded in darkness, without a trace of light. In the middle of the night, the wind whistled through the trees, creating an extremely eerie atmosphere.

Suddenly, a series of "pat-pat-pat" sounds came from outside the tightly closed window next to the basin, as if someone was deliberately knocking.

At the same time, a very clear, mournful cry came from outside the window, instantly piercing the quiet of Lin Yuexuan in the dead of night, making everyone feel extremely frightened.

Lu Tianjiao was already delirious, clutching his head and shrinking into a ball, trembling uncontrollably. He seemed to have no idea whether what he was seeing and hearing was real or not, or what time it was. Was he perhaps in the midst of a raging fire?

She dared not go forward to open the window to verify, and she didn't even have the courage to take the basin of holy water again. She could only keep her eyes tightly closed, not daring to open them even a little bit, feeling as if even her scalp had gone numb.

Suddenly, that unknown yet somewhat familiar voice rang out from outside the window again: "Tianjiao, these past eight years have been so lonely for me. I came back to see you tonight. I imagine you must have been plagued by nightmares and had a hard time these past years."

Upon hearing this, Lu Tianjiao, who was curled up in a ball and trembling, excitedly exclaimed, his teeth chattering, "The Imperial Concubine! It's the Imperial Concubine! Yes, it's the Imperial Concubine! That figure in the crimson palace dress just now was the Imperial Concubine! The Imperial Concubine has returned..."