The emperor remained unconscious for half a month and showed no signs of waking up. Zhu Chumo was in a remote border town in Northeast China, practicing medicine and healing. After receiving Zhu Lin's letter, he wanted to return to the capital immediately, but a sudden heavy snowfall blocked the roads, preventing him from returning.

Seeing how worried Xingxing was every day, Zhu Lin was also afraid that if the emperor suddenly died, Xingxing would be heartbroken. So he took out a pill from his spatial storage and secretly fed it to the emperor.

This elixir has the effect of prolonging life, so no matter how unconscious the emperor is, at least his life will not be in danger.

Meanwhile, the Imperial Concubine and the First Prince were also making moves. For example, one night, Xingxing woke up suddenly in the middle of the night, jumped off the bed, slipped on her shoes, and stomped to death a Gu worm that had just crawled in from outside.

One day, Xingxing was taking a nap when she suddenly heard a crunching sound. She groggily got up and saw Yuanyuan squatting on the floor next to her bed, enjoying eating a small poisonous snake.

This is simply outrageous! Using such underhanded tactics against her, if it weren't for her precognitive abilities and the presence of a snake-eating snowball, she would have been killed by the Imperial Concubine and her son.

"If they're targeting me now, will they target the Empress Dowager next? No, we must retaliate, or they'll really think we're pushovers." Xingxing was furious and decided to unleash a powerful attack on the Consort and her son.

Zhu Lin tentatively suggested, "How about I go and stab each of them, mother and son, with a sword tonight?"

"Let's not do that. Let's use some underhanded tricks instead," Xingxing said.

A dirty trick?

The boy thought for a moment and said, "Shall we go up the mountain and catch a few poisonous snakes to bite them?"

"Where are we going to catch poisonous snakes and insects in this cold weather? Even finding a master of Gu poison would be difficult." Xingxing felt this method wouldn't work. Although her fifth brother also liked making poisons, he didn't know how to make Gu.

"I have a kind of poison here. If you eat it, it will cause you pain, just like being poisoned by a Gu curse." Zhu Lin took out a red pill from his spatial storage and showed it to Xingxing.

"Is there only one pill?" Consort Duan and the First Prince each need one pill, so there should be at least two pills.

"There are still quite a few left, should we give them some?" the handsome young man in white asked.

"Yes, we need to, otherwise how can we make them suffer? But who should we send to put the pills in their food?" Xingxing was troubled.

"Wow, no need to put it in their food, just feed it to them directly," Zhu Lin said calmly.

Xingxing was shocked. She thought the boy was going to use force, press their mouths open, and stuff pills into their mouths.

But the reality was completely different from what she thought. Zhu Lin would never do something so troublesome. After confirming that the eldest prince had come to see Consort Duan, Zhu Lin took Xingxing and sneaked into Jinyue Palace.

As Consort Duan and the Crown Prince opened their mouths to speak, Zhu Lin stood at the window and used her internal energy to flick the pill into their throats. The pill melted instantly in their mouths, and they couldn't spit it out even if they wanted to. It was also colorless and tasteless, and they couldn't taste anything.

But Consort Duan still felt something suddenly fly into her mouth, but after checking her mouth, she found nothing. She frowned and asked, "My son, did you see anything fly towards your mother just now?"

The eldest prince also felt something fly into his mouth, but he wasn't quite sure. "It seems like something flew into my mouth, but there's definitely nothing in my mouth."

Thinking of the poisonous insects and snakes they had released a few days ago, and all the bad things they had done, they couldn't help but have doubts. They were afraid that the eldest princess had also used underhanded tricks against them, so the two of them immediately called for their secret guards.

"Have you discovered anyone or anything entering Jinyue Palace?" Consort Duan asked with a stern face.

The guards shook their heads; they hadn't found anything.

"Useless fools! Go and check if any snakes, insects, or other poisonous creatures have crawled in. Don't even let a fly or an ant escape! Search now!" Consort Duan was furious and ordered the guards to search her palace to see if anything that shouldn't have entered had entered. At the same time, she ordered the imperial physician to come and take the pulses of Consort Duan and her son.

The imperial physician arrived quickly and took their pulses, but found no problems.

However, Consort Duan and her son were still worried, so they asked the Miao Poison Saint to check again, but he still couldn't find any problems. Logically, they should have been relieved.

But Consort Duan felt inexplicably uneasy, as if something was wrong. However, neither she nor the First Prince had any physical abnormalities, and she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Three days later, one morning, the eldest prince suddenly experienced unbearable abdominal pain. He was fine when he got up, but as soon as he stood up, he suddenly fell to the ground. Then he felt his internal organs spasming and convulsing. The pain was so extreme that it was an indescribable torment.

"Imperial Physician, quickly check what's wrong with the Crown Prince!" Seeing the Crown Prince rolling on the ground, unable to be held down by several palace servants, Consort Duan's heart ached with anxiety.

"Your Majesty, we have already examined the Crown Prince's pulse, but we have been unable to find the root cause of his illness. We can only prescribe some medicine to relieve his pain." The imperial physician wrote the prescription with trepidation. If something were to happen to the Crown Prince, their Imperial Hospital would also be in trouble.

"Hurry up and go! If anything happens to the Crown Prince, you will all be buried with him!" Consort Duan shouted, pointing at the group of palace servants.

The palace servants hurriedly retreated and went to prepare the medicine.

The medicine was quickly prepared and forced down the throat of the eldest prince. Yes, it was forced down his throat. The eldest prince was in so much pain that he was delirious and out of his mind. He didn't know how to drink the medicine, so several guards had to hold him down and force-feed him the medicine.

The dark medicine was swallowed, but the prince's pain did not lessen in the slightest. He was in so much pain that his whole body began to convulse, and he vomited up all the medicine he had taken. His skin had turned purplish-red all over, and his face was twisted and contorted, making him look like a demon that had crawled out of a graveyard, which was very terrifying.

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