Yun Zhuo saw blood everywhere, corpses everywhere, and limbs everywhere. These people were all dressed as servants of the Crown Prince's residence, and they died tragically.

"I can understand that you're in a bad mood and cruelly kill livestock, but you can't kill innocent people!" Yun Zhuo stared intently at her, his eyes bloodshot.

"And you're going to attack Gray Seven and White Seven! White Seven has followed you for many years, and Gray Seven has followed me for many years. Although they are wolves, they are no different from our family!"

He never expected Ye Qingxue to do something so cruel. At this moment, his face was full of pain, and his body was swaying as if he would break at any moment.

"Qingxue, are you sick? If you're feeling down, you can tell me..."

Ye Qingxue was just standing under the tree, playing with Hui Qi and Bai Qi. Granny Xing advised her to go back and rest, but she refused, saying that she wanted to wait for Yun Zhuo to come back.

Granny Xing was worried that she would be bored, so she gave her some gray and white toys, which Ye Qingxue then used to play with them.

Hearing Yun Zhuo's footsteps returning, she was overjoyed. She was completely unguarded around Yun Zhuo, so she was almost pulled to the ground by him.

However, Yun Zhuo held her arm tightly, and after a moment of weightlessness, she regained her balance and then heard Yun Zhuo's inexplicable words.

Not only was she stunned and bewildered, but even Granny Xing, the steward, and others beside her all showed expressions of astonishment.

What exactly is His Highness the Crown Prince saying?!

Ye Qingxue tried to pull her arm out of his grasp, but he only held it tighter.

She looked at Yun Zhuo's face, which was deathly pale and his chest was heaving, as if he had suffered a great shock.

"You're hurting me!" Ye Qingxue said.

Yun Zhuo abruptly released her hand, only to quickly clench it again. His sorrowful eyes locked onto her face as he pressed closer: "Please stop killing innocent people, okay? I can take you out hunting!"

The man had bloodshot eyes, and his aura was terrifying. Ye Qingxue looked up at him and felt that he was not quite in his right mind, as if he were possessed.

"Yun Zhuo? Slaughtering the innocent, are you talking about me?" Ye Qingxue asked tentatively in a soft voice.

Yun Zhuo nodded.

"Is there blood on the ground? Is there a corpse?" Ye Qingxue asked again.

Yun Zhuo pursed her lips and nodded with difficulty.

Ye Qingxue raised her hand to cover his eyes, moved closer to him little by little until she was almost touching his body, and said softly, "You're mistaken. There's no blood or corpse on the ground. Gray Seven and White Seven are both fine. I never tortured or killed them."

As darkness crept in, Yun Zhuo could feel the warmth of Ye Qingxue's palm through his eyes and hear her gentle words through his ears.

He was shocked. How could this be?

He saw it with his own eyes!

He saw it with his own eyes...

No, Yun Zhuo suddenly remembered seeing "Ye Qingxue" kill the Ninth Prince with her own hands in the palace.

However, someone did actually do that thing in Ye Qingxue's place, which is why he was deceived by what he "saw with his own eyes," and the Ninth Prince was indeed killed.

Could it be that the people he saw today were not Ye Qingxue?

No, that's not right. If the person in front of him isn't Ye Qingxue, then who is she? Why can he hear her voice, feel her body temperature, and smell her unique fragrance?

Ye Qingxue covered his eyes with one hand and pulled his hand with the other, making him squat down. Her voice was incredibly gentle: "If you don't believe me, you can touch them. Bai Qi and Hui Qi are both fine."

Yun Zhuo placed his hand on the heads of Grey Seven and White Seven, stroking their soft fur, especially Grey Seven, which had been with him for many years. As long as he touched its fur, he could identify it as Grey Seven.

So, was what he just saw really his illusion?

"Now open your eyes and tell me what you see," Ye Qingxue coaxed gently.

Yun Zhuo slowly opened his eyes. It was already dark, and all the lanterns in the Crown Prince's residence were lit. However, Yun Zhuo still saw the scene from before: dead people, severed limbs, scattered body parts, and blood everywhere. It was a disgusting scene that made him want to vomit.

"Go and bring me any dead bodies or severed limbs you find." The surroundings were quiet, with only Ye Qingxue's voice ringing out.

Yun Zhuo stared at her face for a long time before bending down to pick up the severed limb. But when he reached out, the limb had vanished.

The blood disappeared, the corpses disappeared, the severed limbs disappeared... all the bloody scenes he had seen earlier vanished.

Yun Zhuo froze, his body slowly stiffening, his eyes staring blankly.

Therefore, it was all his illusion.

It was all his imagination.

At that moment, he suddenly understood what Yun Chi meant by his last words.

Yun Chi said that even if he lived, he would not be able to stay with Ye Qingxue forever... So that's how it is.

Yun Zhuo's lips twitched slightly, as if she wanted to laugh at the cruel trick of fate, but she couldn't. Instead, her eyes reddened.

Ye Qingxue walked up to him, hugged him, and whispered in his ear, "It's okay, you're just poisoned. We'll cure you. Now we'll go find Xiangsizi and tell him about your symptoms. He'll definitely have a solution."

Yun Zhuo let Ye Qingxue pull him to the courtyard of Xiangsizi. He was numb the whole way. When they arrived at the courtyard, he remained silent, staring at a certain spot with no emotion on his face.

Ye Qingxue pushed him to sit down on a chair and then told Xiangsizi everything that had happened to him in the front yard.

Xiang Si Zi looked at Yun Zhuo with a solemn expression: "Your Highness, besides these symptoms, are there any others?"

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