After diagnosis by several imperial physicians, they all said that the emperor's health had improved a lot.

It was even much better than his physical condition before he vomited blood.

The imperial doctors were unable to explain the cause and could only attribute the credit to the emperor's vomiting, which cleared up the blood stasis in his heart.

Although Qin Yanning knew the reason, he did not dare to take credit for it.

God knows how much trouble she went through before she mixed the healing pill into the emperor's porridge.

Fortunately, the healing pills produced by the system are colorless and tasteless when mixed with porridge and rice, and cannot be detected even by silver needles.

Otherwise, even if she had a few more heads, they wouldn't be enough to chop off.

Now that the emperor has woken up, Qin Yanning, who was left in the palace as an excuse, can go home.

Shen Ziyu hurried to pick up Qin Yanning after the court session, but both of them were detained by the emperor.

The queen looked at the young couple holding hands and knew that they were newlyweds and it was the time for them to be affectionate with each other.

Now that the emperor's health has improved, she is in the mood to tease the two of them.

"His Majesty only summoned you two to talk. Don't worry, there's no dinner prepared for you two today."

Qin Yanning had been in the palace during this time, often chatting with the Queen. Seeing the smile on the Queen's face, she knew that the Queen was teasing her.

Qin Yanning smiled and said, "If Her Majesty the Queen says so, I will definitely stay and ask for another free dinner."

The Queen patted Qin Yanning lightly and scolded him with a smile, "You are so unforgiving with your words."

Shen Ziyu stood aside and watched Qin Yanning acting coquettishly with the queen, feeling extremely peaceful in his heart.

He knew that anyone who saw a girl as good as Ning'er would like her.

Except for the Qin family.

Shen Ziyu clenched his hands. Whenever he thought of the overt and covert grievances Ning'er had suffered in the Qin family, he wished he could throw the entire Qin family into jail immediately.

However, now, there is insufficient evidence that the Qin family has committed a crime, so he can only plan before taking action.

Qin Yanning didn't know what Shen Ziyu was thinking. After talking to the queen for a few words, she followed Shen Ziyu into the inner hall.

The emperor was leaning against the bed in the inner hall. Although he still looked very weak, he was much better than he was a few days ago.

The emperor waved his hand and drove out all the servants in the inner hall. For a moment, there were only three of them left in the hall.

Qin Yanning's heart tightened, she knew that what the emperor wanted to tell them must be extremely confidential.

Otherwise he wouldn't have dismissed everyone.

But Qin Yanning didn't understand. She had just been married to Shen Ziyu for a few days. Why did he bring her along to listen in on the royal family's confidential affairs?

The emperor looked at Shen Ziyu and Qin Yanning, a smile appearing on his face.

"I've been ill these past few days. I'm sorry for the trouble you two have to endure. Please sit here."

The emperor pointed to two chairs beside his bed and asked the two to sit down.

Qin Yanning was not worthy of the emperor's hard work, so he said no and sat down.

Shen Ziyu accepted this statement openly.

"My Royal Brother, this is not the only thing that has troubled me. I am afraid of the lice that itch, but I dare not endure it."

The emperor laughed when he heard this, "In this palace, only you, Ziyu, and the queen can speak the truth to me."

"But what my royal brother said is correct. This is not the only thing I have troubled you with."

"It's because I'm not in good health that I've made you work so hard in the court."

As the emperor spoke, he took out a wooden box from under his pillow, inside of which was a pair of jade pendants made of Hetian jade.

The jade pendant is carved with a pattern of twin lotus flowers. The jade is lustrous and slightly translucent with a hint of green, and the carving technique is extremely ingenious.

"This is the wedding gift I found for you two. The gifts I gave you were all mundane. This is a gift from me as a brother."

The emperor handed the wooden box to Shen Ziyu, who took it and thanked the emperor.

Compared with other rewards from the emperor, he liked this pair of jade pendants more, because they contained the love of an elder brother for his younger brother.

The emperor sighed and looked at Qin Yanning, "Little girl of the Yan family, do you want to be the queen?"

Qin Yanning was stunned by the emperor's question and looked at the emperor blankly.

What did the emperor mean by this? Snatching someone in front of Shen Ziyu?

Qin Yanning knew that the appearance of this little world of his was not that of a natural beauty, so he quickly put his messy thoughts back.

So what the emperor meant was that he wanted Shen Ziyu to be the emperor?

Qin Yanning was very puzzled. Even if we put aside Shen Yuanan, the product of a close relative marriage, the emperor still had four princes.

Although those four were not very capable people, they would not suddenly abdicate to Shen Ziyu.

Shen Ziyu's reaction was faster than the emperor's. He looked at the emperor with a serious expression.

"Since I have already taken over the position of Regent, even if my brother the Emperor wishes to abdicate, no matter which prince he gives the throne to, I will certainly assist him wholeheartedly."

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Don't you know better than I do what kind of moral character my sons have?"

"Zi Yu, you must know that if the emperor had not been seriously ill, the person who should have sat in this position should have been you!"

Qin Yanning wanted to fold her ears and cover them at this moment. She didn't want to hear such secrets.

There is a saying that goes, the more you know, the faster you die.

Although she had the protection of the Son of the World, she still wanted to be cautious.

Shen Ziyu said solemnly, "Royal brother, it was clearly written in the will of our father that Royal brother is the emperor of Daxia."

The emperor gave a bitter laugh and said, "The court is utterly corrupt. If it weren't for your mediation, the Shen family's kingdom would have long since become the Kong family's."

"The Kong family truly has no regard for the law. Do they think I know nothing about what they did to you back then?"

Qin Yanning lowered his head, looking at his nose, mouth and heart.

In fact, even if Shen Ziyu didn't mention it, Qin Yanning had guessed who had poisoned Shen Ziyu.

The Kong family is the maternal family of the current empress dowager.

The Kong family passed down poetry and literature from generation to generation, and the reputation of the Kong women spread throughout Daxia. That was why the late emperor married the empress dowager.

But no one expected that the Kong family, which always talked about Confucianism and Taoism, would actually have such evil ambitions.

They wanted to devour the world of Great Xia, and started by filling the harems of successive crown princes with daughters of the Kong family.

Qin Yanning really wanted to tell the Kong family that if they continued to have close relatives giving birth to children like this, they would not get an emperor with the surname Shen whose bloodline was infinitely close to that of the Kong family.

Instead, you will get a monster produced by a close relative.

Facts have proven that not understanding science can kill people.

Of course, maybe the Queen Mother and the Kong family didn’t think so.

After all, Shen Yuanan was so powerful. If it weren't for Shen Ziyu, I'm afraid that after he became emperor for a few days, the whole world would have changed its name to Kong.

The emperor continued, "Originally, I also wanted Yuan An to succeed me, but that woman was not satisfied. She wanted to force the daughter of the Kong family on my son!"

"I am unwilling to accept this. I do not want the Shen family's empire, which has been passed down through generations, to be destroyed in my hands."

"Zi Yu, I'm begging you."