It wasn't until Yun Yishu left Fushuang Palace and closed the door to the bedroom that A Xiang woke up with a start. She sat up abruptly and subconsciously looked at Yun Duoduo on the bed. Seeing that Yun Duoduo was sleeping with her eyes closed, she felt relieved and lay back down to continue sleeping.

Yun Duoduo listened intently to the sounds around her, and only opened her eyes after confirming that Jin Jinzhi and Aunt Xiang had fallen asleep again.

The moment she opened her eyes, she looked towards the foot of the bed, where a brown wooden medicine box was clearly visible.

A first-aid kit?!

She held her breath for three seconds.

Is this not a hallucination?

For a moment, she couldn't distinguish between reality and dream. [How did the medicine box suddenly appear?]

She rubbed her eyes, held her breath, and reached for the medicine box with trembling hands.

She touched it! It was a real object! Not an illusion!

Thank goodness, thank you for the first-aid kit!

Her heart was in her throat. She nervously opened the medicine box, covered her eyes, and dared not look inside.

The sky outside was gradually turning white, and Yun Duoduo didn't dare to hesitate any longer. [If someone saw her, she'd be in big trouble.]

[Playing with these weird and strange gadgets here, I'm sure people will call me a witch.]

She parted her fingers and peered through the gaps into the medicine box. Inside, there was silicone gel and a bottle of inhalable ether!

She excitedly went to get the medicine.

After the medicine was taken out, the medicine box disappeared.

It vanished in a flash, before Yun Duoduo could react or express her gratitude. It disappeared along with the golden wheat and the enormous sapphire.

It came and went quietly, without making a sound, without taking away a single cloud.

[It's as if it never existed.]

It's like the sky leaving no trace, but the bird has already flown by.

With a trembling hand and an excited heart, she clutched the silicone gel and ether tightly in her hands, breathing heavily.

The appearance and disappearance of the medicine box were far beyond her comprehension. She didn't understand why the medicine box hadn't appeared despite her desperate pleas, but then it quietly appeared when she had given up all hope.

She suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and felt a sense of fear.

This world is truly wondrous, both wondrous and somewhat terrifying. She seemed to realize the power of nature and this world.

She herself is but a drop in the ocean, an insignificant little baby in the universe.

Ultimately, Yun Duoduo's knowledge was too limited.

However, even such a small living being has joys and sorrows, people it loves, people it wants to protect and safeguard, a mission to live, and a direction to strive for.

She calmed herself down and slowly pulled her thoughts back. She had read over a hundred novels, so although it was difficult, she could accept what was happening.

If you can't understand it, then accept it!

She turned to look at Aunt Xiang, slowly crawled to her side, swirled the ether around her nose, and after confirming that her breathing had become deeper, she applied silicone gel to the burned areas.

...

The following morning, inside the Nanyang Imperial Palace.

The news that Prince Ning, Yun Beiming, had miraculously saved the life of the eldest prince Yun Yibo's little white dog quickly spread throughout the entire palace.

"Have you heard? His Highness Prince Ning has the ability to bring the dead back to life!"

"That's right! That day I saw the First Prince carrying a dog and rushing towards Langyue Pavilion. I saw the dog almost die, but look at it now, it's full of energy and jumping around!"

"Of course! His Highness Prince Ning is a medical sage!"

Several eunuchs sweeping the palace corridors chatted as they went to work.

In the backyard of Fu Shuang Palace, Xiao Jinyu, who had recently entered the palace and just become the head of a small squad of guards, was looking at the three people lying on the ground in the courtyard with a worried expression.

The three people were pale and had purple lips; they had all fainted and appeared to have been poisoned.

These three guards were his subordinates, ordered to protect the little princess's safety.

However, just last night, it was suspected that an assassin broke into Fu Shuang Palace. When several guards went to arrest the person, they mistakenly entered the back mountain and returned looking like this ghost.

Xiao Jinyu also heard the rumors in the palace, ["Why don't we go and plead with His Highness Prince Ning?"]

[But why would His Highness Prince Ning bother with a mere head guard like him? He only saved the little white dog because of the First Prince.]

[Should we go find the imperial physician? But if we do that, His Majesty will definitely investigate the assassination attempt yesterday.]

Xiao Jinyu sighed, feeling very conflicted.

Just as he was hesitating, footsteps came from the doorway.

It was Prince Ning, Yunbei Minglaifu, who came to visit his little niece at the Shuanggong Palace.

Xiao Jinyu mustered his courage and walked up to Yun Beiming. "Your Highness Prince Ning."

"Oh, who are you?"

"I am Xiao Jinyu of the Xiao family, Your Highness Prince Ning. I have heard that you are skilled in medicine. Could you please take a look at these guards?" Xiao Jinyu pointed to the backyard. Yun Beiming did not say anything, but followed him to the backyard.

"They might have been poisoned."

To find out what poison these people had been poisoned with, Yun Beiming put on his veil and walked up to the three soldiers. He bent down to look at their mouths and noses, and then asked, "Have these people eaten anything or been anywhere?"

"They ate the same food as us, and went to the same places..." the young guard recalled.

"I've been to the back mountain." Xiao Jinyu decided to tell the truth.

"Could you take me to see the back mountain?"

"Thank you, Your Highness."

The two walked along a path and arrived at the back mountain behind Fushuang Palace.

There was a valley shrouded in white mist behind the mountain. She looked up, but the mist was so thick that she couldn't see anything more than ten meters above her head.

All around them was a vast expanse of white, with extremely low visibility.

Yun Beiming frowned; he seemed unaware that such a place existed.

"Wait, don't come any closer!" Yun Beiming suddenly realized something and whispered to stop the people behind him.

“This fog is poisonous.” Yun Beiming took out a handkerchief from his bosom and covered his mouth and nose, and Xiao Jinyu did the same.

A moment later, the clouds dispersed, and a ray of sunlight shone into the valley, piercing through the layers of mist and making the scenery inside the valley clear.

Yun Beiming carefully observed his surroundings. The place was shrouded in mist and barren of vegetation, but he spotted a patch of green in a crevice in the rock.

Anything that can survive in such a toxic fog is either more poisonous or capable of metabolizing the toxins.

It should be able to detoxify.

(The author is not a medical professional, so some medical knowledge used is based on research. If there is anything that contradicts medical principles, medical professionals are welcome to correct it!)