Although Xu Yuze has lived in Beijing for over twenty years, he is used to being alone.

Therefore, he was completely unaware of the gossip circulating in the imperial harem or the inner quarters of the capital.

They were unaware of the horror of "Dream Tragedy".

It wasn't until he heard that even the highly skilled physician Yang Shengjie couldn't cure the poison that Xu Yuze realized how terrible things were.

It's winter, even though.

His palms were sweating with nervousness, and his voice trembled involuntarily.

"How could this be?! This poison is so potent, you've never even seen anything like it before?"

Being openly exposed by him in front of a room full of people, Yang Shengjie looked quite embarrassed and softly retorted:

"This is, after all, a poison reserved for the royal family. How could an ordinary person possibly use it? Besides, even if such a poison were used in the inner palace, it would be done with utmost secrecy, so there would be no need for imperial physicians. Now, I'm afraid only someone from the Shangguan family knows the antidote..."

The room was immediately filled with a heavy, somber atmosphere.

Xie Muqing slowly sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), stretched out his slender fingers to stroke Lin Yan's cheek, lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Xu Yuze's gaze followed his hand to the kang (a heated brick bed), and he murmured softly:

"If the poison cannot be cured, will Miss Lin just continue to sleep like this?"

Xie Muqing gave a bitter smile.

But his face revealed endless helplessness and sorrow, like withered leaves falling in autumn, desolate and lonely.

"He won't sleep forever; after three days and three nights, he will die in his dreams."

Xu Yuze almost stopped breathing, his whole body was as if he had been petrified, and it took him a while to exhale deeply.

"What?! Who could be so vicious as to poison Miss Lin like this?"

No one could answer his question for the time being.

The others did not know who had poisoned them, but Xie Muqing, the only one who knew, was too ashamed to speak.

Yang Jiayi paced anxiously inside the room, his frantic voice reaching the ears of everyone present.

"But even if we ride as fast as we can to the capital to find her now, three days is definitely not enough! What should we do?"

"If only we had the Shangguan family's secret medicine, but the Shangguan family is in Jiangnan, which is even farther than the capital. Besides, we have no relation to the Shangguan family, so even if we offered a lot of money, they wouldn't give it to us..."

Although Yang Shengjie did not know Lin Yan.

However, as a skilled doctor, he was unable to cure her poison, which made him extremely irritable and depressed.

The room fell silent instantly.

Xie Muqing was shrouded in intense sorrow.

Seeing his young master so heartbroken, Yang Jiayi was anxious and wanted to comfort him but didn't know how to start, so he could only remain silent.

Suddenly, the scene from his wedding day flashed through his mind, and he couldn't help but tentatively ask:

"Young master, didn't Miss Shangguan give your wife a gift at your wedding last time? Could it be...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Shengjie interrupted him without any politeness.

Perhaps because he was still thinking about how Yang Jiayi had woken him up during the day, his tone carried a slight hint of disdain, as if he were mocking Yang Jiayi's wild ideas.

"Even if Miss Shangguan were to send a congratulatory gift, it could only be something like jewelry. She's not stupid enough to just casually give away a family secret medicine that's so rare it's worth a fortune!"

At this moment, Xie Muqing would hold on tightly to even the slightest glimmer of hope.

He ignored Yang Shengjie's sarcasm, stood up abruptly, and left the bedroom like a gust of wind.

By the time the people inside reacted, he had already returned to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) with a gift box.

At that moment, Lin Yan was so shocked by Xiao Jue's gift of gold that she forgot to look at the gift box that Shangguan Yun had given her.

The gift box has been sitting on the bookshelf ever since.

Amidst everyone's expectant gazes, Xie Muqing slowly opened the gift box, revealing a small, miniature ceramic bottle with a piece of paper tucked beside it.

Those slender hands were trembling slightly with nervousness and excitement.

The paper was small, containing only a few words, yet it clearly explained the effects of the pills inside the bottle and how to use them.

Upon seeing the contents of the paper, Yang Shengjie's eyes immediately lit up with fervent light, and she became so excited that she spoke incoherently.

"This...this...this really is the Shangguan family's secret medicine!!"

As a doctor, he knew how precious this secret medicine was, and for a moment, his eyes were filled with fascination for it.

Compared to him, Xu Yuze was much calmer. He stepped forward and blocked their intense gazes.

He spoke up in time to remind Xie Muqing.

"Young Master Xie, now that we have the secret medicine, please quickly administer it to Miss Lin according to the instructions on this paper."

Reminded by him, Xie Muqing finally snapped out of his reverie, poured the pills out of the bottle, fed them to Lin Yan, and gave her some water.

Throughout the entire process, his movements were extremely gentle.

Treating them like porcelain dolls, afraid of using too much force and hurting them.

Xu Yuze looked surprised.

It was completely impossible to reconcile the extremely gentle young man before them with the spoiled and arrogant young tyrant he once was in the capital.

But Yang Chia-yi remained unmoved, seemingly used to it all along.

After feeding the medicine, Xie Muqing held her breath and stood quietly by the kang (a heated brick bed), not even daring to blink, afraid of missing the moment when the person on the kang woke up.

...

At this moment, Lin Yan, in another world, suddenly felt a powerful force pulling her desperately.

She then lost consciousness.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw the very familiar rooftop and immediately sat up.

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