The Chu family members asked in fear, "What happened? Did Emperor Yangsheng divorce you?"

Chu Hanhua was speechless.

The matriarch of the Chu family slapped him across the face and scolded, "Your brother has given you everything over the years, providing you with people and money, and covering all your needs. And what have you done? You couldn't even keep one of his bloodlines! If he had known, he wouldn't have needed to support you at all. There are so many legitimate daughters, why would a mere illegitimate daughter like you get a chance? A fool is a fool, and will never amount to anything."

“What good is it for you to curse me now? My brother helped me, and I gave him power and glory in return.”

The jailer listened with great interest to the dog-eat-dog drama, saying that the so-called empress and the old lady of the prime minister's mansion were no different from shrewish women on the street.

However, after listening for a while, he did hear something useful—

"I didn't poison him on the night of the full moon. You should hold the Emperor Emeritus accountable. He was the one who poisoned him. Who else had the opportunity to do it?"

The jailer listened carefully for a while, then dashed out to find Xiahou Yan.

"Was His Majesty poisoned by the Emperor Emeritus? Did you hear me clearly?" Xiahou Yan looked at the jailer.

The jailer, hunching over obsequiously, cupped his hands and said, "That's exactly what she said. They said it in the heat of the moment during their argument."

Xiahou Yan rewarded him with five taels of silver and reported it to Yin Jin'an.

"Your Majesty, the Chu family may also be diverting trouble to cause infighting between you and the Emperor Emeritus," Xiahou Yan calmly analyzed. "It cannot be ruled out that it was the Emperor Emeritus's doing, after all, he even dared to harm the Empress Dowager."

Yin Jin'an said, "Summon Emperor Yangsheng here, I will ask him myself."

For dinner, the kitchen prepared thirty-two dishes, and Yin Jin'an invited Emperor Yangsheng to dine with him.

Emperor Yangsheng looked at the table full of food, swallowed hard, and said, "The people are barely able to make ends meet, and you have the nerve to eat thirty-two dishes!"

"I am not like you. You can't eat what you want, but I can eat whenever I want. I can afford to eat 132 dishes, let alone 32!"

Emperor Yangsheng didn't stand on ceremony and sat down to eat. He didn't usually eat well, but these dishes looked very exquisite, and he wondered where the chef had come from.

Yin Jin ate her meal quietly.

As Emperor Yangsheng ate, he asked, "Where did you get your chef from?"

Yin Jin'an ignored him.

"Why did you suddenly decide to invite me to dinner?"

Nobody paid any attention.

"What have you done to your brothers? I have already deposed the Chu family. Why don't you let them go? Let them go and fend for themselves."

For half the day, he was the one performing.

"I'm speaking to you! Are you pretending to be deaf and dumb?" Emperor Yangsheng was somewhat annoyed.

Yin Jin'an put down her chopsticks, looked at him coldly, and said, "You've been emperor for over ten years now, haven't you? Don't you understand any etiquette? You shouldn't speak while eating or sleeping. Do you understand that?"

Emperor Yangsheng blushed and said, "I am the Son of Heaven, I can do whatever I want."

"Just because you're the emperor doesn't mean you can do whatever you want! I want to throw you out, is that alright?"

"you……"

"Shut up and eat quietly. You'll have your turn to speak later."

Emperor Yangsheng ate his meal in frustration. After accepting the dishes, he asked, "You're not trying to set me up for a trap, are you?"

"A trap? You're not qualified!"

"..." Feeling frustrated!

"I want to ask you, on the night of the full moon, the poison took effect, and the Chu family said that you were the one who poisoned me. How do you cure it?"

Emperor Yangsheng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard him ask about the antidote for the full moon night. The person in front of him should be Xiao Jin'an, or at least not an imposter.

Upon hearing from Madam Chu that he was the one who poisoned her, she immediately denied it: "It wasn't me, how could I possibly poison you?"

"What can't you do?"

"..." Emperor Yangsheng said angrily, "Although you defeated me, I am not afraid of you. I cannot admit to things I did not do. I have no idea how you were poisoned. I have ordered the imperial physician to examine you."

While Wei Mu was alive, he was always by Xiao Jin'an's side, so no one had a chance to poison him.

Wei Mu had concealed Xiao Jin'an's unusual symptoms of poisoning on the night of the full moon during his lifetime. After Wei Mu's death, the original owner of the body unleashed her poisoning without any restraint on the night of the full moon, which truly terrified Emperor Yang Sheng.

“I think you are somewhat similar to those people in the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but the sorcerer of Nanzhao Kingdom used medicine in your body but failed to draw out the Gu worms. The sorcerer said that there are no Gu worms in your body.”

"Is my body contaminated with toxins?"

“I was unaware. You started showing abnormalities when you were about a year and a half old. I heard about it from someone and went to see you. Your eyes were a little red, but your mother was skilled in medicine and took care of you. I thought it was just a common illness.”

He wasn't poisoned, nor was he cursed, so he's a born wolf-howling freak?