After the morning court session, Kangxi kept Suhetai behind alone.

"Your Majesty, is there anything you need from me?" Su Hetai asked, noticing that Kangxi looked constipated.

Kangxi was still pondering how to tell Su Hetai about He Xue. Rather than waiting for Su Hetai to find out, he thought it would be better to tell him proactively, which might lessen Su Hetai's resentment.

"Suhetai, I have something to tell you!" Kangxi said.

"Your Majesty, please speak plainly! Your appearance is making this servant very uneasy!"

"Someone poisoned the Crown Prince at Yuqing Palace yesterday!"

"Such a thing has happened?" Suhetai exclaimed in surprise. "Who on earth would be so bold as to lay a hand on the Crown Prince?"

Suhetai felt that if it was only the Crown Prince who was poisoned, Kangxi would not have specifically told him about it, unless the matter also involved Hexue.

Thinking of this, Su Hetai immediately asked, "Your Majesty, how is He Xue? Is she alright?"

"It's all alright now!" Kangxi hadn't expected Suhetai to have such a sharp mind.

"Now that everything's alright, does that mean something happened before?" Suhetai asked.

"Your Majesty, I have said before that He Xue and the palace are incompatible. Whenever He Xue has been injured since she was a child, it was in the palace."

"Do you think we shouldn't betroth He Xue to the Crown Prince? If it implicates him, I would truly deserve to die!" Su Hetai said.

Seeing that Su Hetai had an opportunity to cancel the marriage between Hexue and the Crown Prince, Kangxi said directly, "This time, it's all thanks to Hexue, otherwise we wouldn't have discovered that someone had poisoned us!"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean? Has He Xue been poisoned?" Su Hetai asked anxiously.

"It is true that Xue was poisoned, but the poison has been cured!" Kangxi said quickly.

Su Hetai was so angry that he pointed directly at Kangxi and said, "Xuan Ye, we grew up together, and I have done my best for you."

But what about you? You had your eye on my daughter from the very beginning. Now I see it clearly: you're using my daughter to shield your son from disaster!

What kind of living Buddha is this? And what about this supposed perfect match? It's utter nonsense! If it's a perfect match, why is it always He Xue who gets hurt? And each time it's more serious than the last!

"It's poisoning again this time! Will it happen again? Will it kill He Xue next time?!"

"Suhetai, you yourself said that we grew up together. You should know me. Am I that kind of person?" Since this incident, Kangxi has become even more determined to marry Hexue to the Crown Prince. Perhaps she can really protect the Crown Prince from disaster!

“That’s the kind of person you are.” Suhetai no longer cared about the etiquette between ruler and subject.

"Since you say so, I think it's not that He Xue is incompatible with the palace, but rather with the capital. Why not just send He Xue to Mongolia! Far away from the capital!" Kangxi said with a flick of his face.

"Despicable and shameless!" Suhetai glared at Kangxi and muttered under his breath.

"Suhetai, Hexue is someone I watched grow up, and I love her like a daughter. I have wronged her this time. How about this, Hexue will be directly named Crown Princess after marrying the Crown Prince."

Suhetai looked at Kangxi with dissatisfaction, thinking to himself, "They only know how to give alms with these things. I don't care at all if Hexue becomes the Crown Princess."

"Moreover, the Crown Prince has clearly stated to me that he will not marry anyone but He Xue. The Crown Prince has remained unmarried for so many years just to wait for He Xue. His devotion has truly moved me!" Kangxi had no choice but to attribute the Crown Prince's lack of marriage to He Xue.

Suhetai looked at Kangxi suspiciously. Could it be that the Aisin Gioro family really produces generations of romantics? This time it's the Crown Prince, so is this good or bad for Hexue?