A rare pair of poisons that can cause life and death together.

Xin Jiuwei stared at Jueming and said in a low voice, "Back then, Yao Niang personally fed you a portion of the poison and then took you to Yingzhou. But you were too young then, and the poison was extremely dangerous. Before we even arrived in Yingzhou, you developed a high fever and almost died."

"Yao Niang was very flustered, but she dared not seek out a doctor casually, for fear that the matter would be exposed."

“It was a stormy night, just like the day I rolled down the hillside, and just like the day you saved me. That day, Yao Niang met a woman.”

“That woman is the daughter of a wealthy merchant, but she has loved reading since she was a child and has some knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. She saved Yao Niang and you, took Yao Niang home, and relieved your high fever.”

"But because your symptoms were unusual, she was also very curious. Yao Niang was grateful for her life-saving grace, but dared not tell the truth. So the girl felt strange and kept the matter in her heart."

"Later, when Yao Niang was about to take you away, she was chased again, but was saved by the young lady who had chased after her. At the critical moment, the young lady learned Yao Niang's secret by chance."

"For your sake, Yao Niang wanted to kill that young lady to silence her. To protect herself, the young lady told Yao Niang that twenty years later, a divine physician would develop an antidote for you, but the divine physician would only listen to her."

“Yao Niang is not as clever as you. She believed Miss’s words and spared her life. Fortunately, Miss is a person who can keep secrets. She never told anyone about this.”

When the young lady saw Yao Niang off, she said to her—

"Death is so easy, living is so difficult, but we all have someone we would do anything to keep alive."

At this point, Xin Jiuwei paused and stared intently at Jueming.

"Your Highness, that young lady is my mother."

"Later she married my father and had three children. I never met her, and in the years that followed, she never uttered a single secret about you."

"But I know that to my mother, I am the one she was willing to risk her life for to keep me alive, just as I was born and she left."

Xin Jiuwei shed genuine tears as she looked at Jueming, "This is how my mother let me live, just like sixteen years ago. Sixteen years later, she left me this secret, which is also to let me live."

Xin Jiuwei did not lie about this matter.

Her mother originally intended to keep this secret to herself, but fearing that it would implicate Xin Shi in the future, she hid the secret she knew, along with the token of the divine physician that she had obtained by chance, in a place where no one knew.