Chapter 34 Chapter 34 What kind of poison are you trying to cast on me? ...
A slightly rapid heartbeat echoed from his warm chest. His large hand caressed the black hair on her temples, and he whispered in her ear, "Just this once, don't move, okay?"
Just once.
In his previous life, he'd held Hanyu's increasingly cold body for three days and nights, but she knew nothing of it. She'd hated him until her death, and he'd hated himself for not explaining everything sooner. Now, giving him a chance to be reborn, would she believe him if he confessed everything?
The grudges from his past life were like a thorn in his throat. He tried desperately to erase the painful memories, but every time the love Gu moved, the memories of the dead would resurface clearly.
At this moment, time seemed to have stopped, and a moment seemed as long as eternity. She counted his heartbeats carefully, and inexplicably felt a good impression of him in her heart. At this moment, she did not dare to move, or perhaps she did not want to move.
Until he told her: "I may disappoint you. The news that my brother is coming back... is fake."
Hanyu looked up at him, hoping that he was lying to her, but Yin Jinglong's eyes were more sincere than ever.
Her eyes gradually became lost, bitter tears welled up in her eyes. She turned around and wiped her tears stubbornly alone.
"If... all this had started the same as before, perhaps I could still find my brother. Unfortunately, there are no ifs... the situation changed from the very beginning."
After leaving these words, Yin Jinglong did not give much explanation, but left in a daze, leaving Hanyu with a head full of doubts and speculations.
Hanyu looked up at the sky above the palace, then glanced at the yellowing leaves in the yard, realizing that it was already late autumn, not far from the bloody wedding ceremony in her previous life.
"Will the ending this time be the same as before?"
She was asking the sky, and also herself. A dim yellow fallen leaf was blown down by the wind and fell into her hand. She stared blankly at the intertwined yet orderly veins on the back of the leaf.
"Perhaps all this has already been destined, and it's beyond your and my control."
The next day in the court, Yin Jinglong changed his attitude from the previous day and reported to the emperor that he was willing to give Princess Chaoyang a chance to redeem herself from her crime.
"After all, this concerns the politics of the Great Yin. So what if they are criminals? So what if they are secret guards? As long as they can serve Your Majesty and be loyal to the court, their past crimes can be mitigated as appropriate."
He said this deliberately for the Queen Mother and the princess's party to hear, giving the princess an explanation and giving the emperor a way out.
The little emperor, who had no sovereignty at all, clapped his hands happily and immediately issued an edict to lift the house arrest order on Princess Chaoyang. He also named her secret guards "Jinyiwei" and placed them under the command of the princess, but they had to be loyal to the emperor and the empress dowager.
Even the idle Prince Consort Sun was appointed as the deputy commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. The Prince Consort was ecstatic to get this official position.
The princess said to him, "This time, His Majesty has commissioned me to go to the southern border to investigate the matter of the general. However, I am not feeling well and cannot travel far for the time being. My Lord, please go on my behalf!"
Upon hearing that she was unwell, Prince Consort Sun immediately became nervous again and quickly summoned the imperial physician to come and see the princess.
But the princess was reluctant to call the imperial physician. At this time, the princess's personal maid brought a bowl of medicine and was about to serve her the medicine.
The Prince Consort knocked over the medicine bowl and angrily scolded the maid, "Your Highness is still in good health, why did you bring the medicine? Are you trying to harm Your Highness?"
"This servant deserves death! It was His Highness who asked this servant to bring it to you."
The maid knelt down and begged for mercy, silently picking up the broken pieces of the medicine bowl on the ground.
Princess Chaoyang dismissed the maid and explained to Prince Consort Sun, "It's none of her business. I'm just having a minor health problem. This prescription was also written by the imperial physician and it's not harmful. I have servants here to take care of me, so you can go out without worry!"
"Your Highness, what's wrong with your health? If you don't tell me the truth, how can I leave you alone and go on such a long journey?"
Princess Chaoyang thought about it and hesitated for a long time before she said to him, "I... am pregnant."
"Yes? What?"
"I'm pregnant."
Prince Consort Sun was dumbfounded when he realized what was happening. They had been married for many years but had never conceived a child. The imperial physician had previously diagnosed that the princess had a cold uterus, and coupled with her day and night work, it would be difficult for her to get pregnant.
How come it suddenly appeared this time?
He squatted down and carefully stroked the princess's belly, his surprise beyond words.
"Is it true? Your Highness, are you deceiving me?"
"You're so silly! How could I joke about something like this? A few days ago, I suddenly felt unwell and had a poor appetite, so I asked the imperial physician to take my pulse. After confirmation, I found out that I'm pregnant."
"No wonder your Highness feels disgusted by the sight of blood. You didn't feel that way before. You're already pregnant? I have a child. I'm going to be a father. Hahahaha!"
Prince Consort Sun was overjoyed and cheered. Princess Chaoyang was afraid that he would tell others about this, so she immediately told him to shut up.
"This baby isn't even in the womb yet! Don't let anyone know! Especially not to Prince Yin. Just say I've caught a cold and can't go to the southern border myself, so you, my Prince Consort, will go on my behalf. I didn't tell you this because I wanted you to feel at ease while you go out, but you... ah~ you're such an impatient fellow!"
"Your Highness, I have one question that puzzles me. You clearly know that the rumors are false and that this trip will be in vain and we won't be able to bring back the general. Why did you still want to stop me from doing this difficult task?"
Princess Chaoyang explained, "Of course, it's for you, me, and the child I'm carrying. Only by holding great power can we survive in this turbulent court. I know the news is false, but since no one has broken it, I still have room to make a fuss about it. You only need to go to the southern border for me, stay there for over a month, and then return. I will take care of everything else."
Although Prince Consort Sun had his doubts, he remained calm and went to the southern border in place of Princess Chaoyang, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Upon learning that the princess had sent her husband on the expedition, Yin Jinglong slammed the table and cursed inwardly, "Experience is indeed the most cunning! She knew this mission would be fruitless, so she sent a loser to take the blame for her while she herself sat back home making all the plans. How insidious and cunning!"
At this time, the spider that had disappeared for a few days suddenly came uninvited.
"Who angered the prince?"
Yin Jinglong looked at the spider. Her expression of watching a show really annoyed him, so he questioned her, "Two days ago, when the king wanted to see you, you were nowhere to be found. How dare you leave the palace without my order? It seems that if I don't teach you a lesson, you will not know how to behave."
"Your Highness, it's not too late to punish me after you've listened to my explanation!"
The spider took out the cup containing the protozoan, and saw that the protozoan, which had originally had a swollen abdomen and shed its skin all over its body, had now returned to normal. Next to the protozoan lay another protozoan that looked very similar to the Heart-Eating Mother Gu that the spider had given him.
"What is this? What kind of poison are you trying to put on me?"
"Of course I didn't intend to put a Gu on you. I left the palace these past few days to search for a cure for this protozoan. Fortunately, my efforts paid off. This dying protozoan was reborn thanks to my efforts, and even gave birth to a more powerful Gu protozoan."
As she spoke, she took out the dark golden spider the size of a fingertip and showed it to Yin Jinglong.
He pushed the spider's hand away and said with disgust, "I am disgusted by your disgusting little spider. Take it away!"
The spider laughed and said, "Your Highness, please do not underestimate this disgusting little thing. Protozoa give rise to countless poisons. With this, you can refine all the poisons in the world."
"Since you have such a good thing, why would you give it to me?"
Yin Jinglong was worried that the spider was playing tricks on him, so he deliberately stayed away from the spider in her hand.
"Of course I'm not giving it to you for free. If you, Your Highness, sincerely want it, then I can make you a deal. As long as you agree to my terms, not only will I give it to you, I'll also teach you how to make Gu. This thing is much more useful than that weird statue."
Yin Jinglong secretly guessed that the spider really had something to ask of him, so she deliberately took out the poisonous insect in exchange. He wanted to see what other tricks this witch had up her sleeve, so he was willing to listen to her conditions.
She said, "I would like to ask the prince and Miss Hanyu to accompany me to the Miao village in southern Xinjiang."
"Impossible!" Yin Jinglong refused decisively.
Not to mention that he was too busy with his affairs to go to the southern barbarian land. Even if he wanted to go, it would definitely be when he wanted to recover the southern border for the Great Yin.
The spider had anticipated his refusal, so it expressed regret and said, "Your Highness is only one step away from refining the Heart-Eating Gu within your body. Do you wish to give up? Once the Gu is inside the body, it cannot be removed unless the host dies. Miss Hanyu's child Gu is already quietly growing stronger. Perhaps one day her child Gu could transform into the mother Gu that controls your body. Will Your Highness then be forced to submit to her control?"
Yin Jinglong didn't believe what the spider said at first, thinking she was exaggerating. In the few days after he rejected the spider, he would cry and laugh inexplicably, feeling happy at one moment and sad at the next, as if his emotions were controlled by someone.
His joys, sorrows, anger and happiness were exactly the same as Hanyu's emotions. At this moment, he truly experienced the joys and sorrows of the Heart-Eating Gu.
He was worried that the spider's words would eventually come true, so after careful consideration, he agreed to go to southern Xinjiang.
In order to avoid arousing suspicion in the court, he pretended to be sick and asked for leave, and temporarily handed over all the miscellaneous matters in the palace to Manager Xu.
As for Hanyu, who knows what tricks did the spider use to make her agree to go to southern Xinjiang with them?
Yin Jinglong tentatively asked Hanyu, "I'm absolutely not foolish enough to believe you agreed to that witch's request. Did you think that by going to Southern Xinjiang you could remove the poisonous insect and escape my control?"
"Your Highness, you're worrying too much. Although I also want to quickly remove the Heart-Eating Gu, I know it's not easy. The reason I agreed to that spider's request was because she said there might be someone I want to see there."
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