The Prince of Qin's Mansion.
In front of Lin Yuexuan's bedroom, Xuanyuan Han was completely silent.
Only two guards were on high alert, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and were diligently and conscientiously guarding the position.
Suddenly, one of them caught a glimpse of a figure moving around the corner of the corridor, so he shouted at them, "Who's lurking around there like that?"
Upon hearing the sound, a young guard slowly emerged from the darkness. The guard had his head down and looked rather thin.
This young guard was actually Yi Shangyun, who had disguised himself and sneaked in under the cover of night.
As soon as she stepped forward, she explained, "I was sent by the Dowager Consort Zihexuan. Her Highness has not heard from His Highness for many days and is very worried. She sent me to ask if His Highness has sent any news today, and whether he has said how long it will be before he returns to the manor."
Upon hearing this, the two guards immediately exchanged a glance, their expressions clearly showing some tension.
But the guard quickly regained his composure and even forced a smile, saying, "His Highness will be returning to his residence in a few days, so please rest assured, Your Highness!"
Yi Shangyun was still somewhat skeptical. He frowned and asked, "Really? His Highness, he's really coming back soon?"
The two guards nodded in unison and said, "How could we dare to deceive Her Highness the Empress Dowager!"
Yi Shangyun pondered for a moment, feeling that something was off about the two guards in front of him. Their eyes seemed to be intentionally or unintentionally avoiding his gaze whenever he looked at them.
So she gritted her teeth, suddenly raised her voice, and shouted angrily.
"How dare you lie to the Empress Dowager! His Highness was on his way to Dongning when he was ambushed by enemy troops as soon as he crossed the border and disappeared!"
Upon hearing this, the two guards panicked: "Very few people in the manor know about this. How did you find out?"
At this, Yi Shangyun was instantly stunned, and asked blankly, "So, His Highness... he really had an accident?!"
After the two guards recounted the whole story in detail, Yi Shangyun stood there motionless for a long time.
How could that be?
"how so?"
"He is a battle-hardened war god of the spirit realm, how could he be so easily outmaneuvered?"
"How could Mei Zhixuan possibly be his match?"
"This is impossible..."
"This is absolutely impossible..."
Just as she was completely baffled as to how this could have happened, the guard pleaded, "You must not let the Empress Dowager know about this. She has just recovered and cannot be subjected to such a shock again!"
Yi Shangyun was of course aware of this news. For Consort Chun, this was tantamount to taking her life, so she replied, "I know!"
After some thought, Yi Shangyun said urgently, "I must go to the palace to see the Emperor immediately. We must send someone to bring His Highness back right away!"
The guard disagreed: "It's no use. Not only can a lowly guard like you or me not even get into the palace, but everyone in the court already knows that His Highness's insistence on going east was a trap. Even if the Emperor agrees to send troops, it's too late. I'm afraid His Highness is already..."
Before he could finish speaking, Yi Shangyun sternly stopped him: "No, His Highness will be alright!"
Seeing that Yi Shangyun reacted so strongly, the two guards quietly fell silent and stopped talking.
"All of this..."
"What the Empress and the Crown Prince said was actually true!"
"Why?"
"Why did you still take action against them behind my back even after I had already compromised?"
"Why can't they be tolerated?"
"Why?"
Overwhelmed with anger, Yi Shangyun pondered for a moment before slowly turning around and looking back.
Just as he was about to leave, a guard came rushing over, shouting, "Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened at Zihe Pavilion!"
Yi Shangyun suddenly came to her senses and grabbed the guard's arm, asking, "What's wrong? What happened at Zihexuan?"
The guard was trembling all over, terrified and breathless, and said, "Your Highness, Your Highness has passed away!"
Upon hearing this, Yi Shangyun stared at him wide-eyed in astonishment and exclaimed, "What did you say? The Dowager Consort, she..."
Before the guard could catch his breath and speak again, Yi Shangyun took off running alone towards Zihexuan.
Zihexuan.
The sound of weeping rose and fell, one after another, without ceasing.
The maids and servants knelt on the ground in the vast hall.
Consort Chun lay quietly on the couch, motionless, her face as pale as paper.
Kneeling at the very front of the crowd was Lu Tianjiao.
As she wiped away her tears with her handkerchief, she said, "Your son is unfilial. It's all my fault for being useless and failing to take good care of my mother. I am ashamed before Your Highness. I have no face to live..."
As he spoke, he suddenly fainted.
"Your Highness, the Consort!"
"Your Highness, the Consort!"
In an instant, two maids called out and helped Lu Tianjiao out.
Granny Zhang was heartbroken and asked the imperial physician beside her in bewilderment, "How could this be? These past few days, Her Highness the Imperial Concubine's health had clearly improved significantly, how could she suddenly..."
Even now, Physician Yue still feels utterly bewildered and confused, and feels extremely guilty.
"Her Majesty has indeed fully recovered! I took her pulse this morning and found nothing wrong. It's all because of my limited medical skills that I couldn't find the reason why Her Majesty suddenly lost her breath!"
Huan'er was already sobbing uncontrollably, and said with heartbreaking grief, "Your Majesty, why didn't you wait any longer? You hadn't even seen His Highness Prince Qin return yet, and you hadn't said what you wanted to say to him. Why did you leave like this!"
"Waaaaah..."
This is the scene.
From afar, Yi Shangyun, who had been standing at the very back of the crowd, suddenly felt her legs become incredibly heavy. She then knelt heavily at the very back with a thud, tears streaming down her face.
Soon, the entire palace was covered in white.
After everyone in the hall had left, only Zhang Mama and Huan'er remained. Just as they were about to go in to change Consort Chun's burial clothes...
Yi Shangyun, who had been waiting outside the door, could no longer contain her emotions and spoke up to stop the two: "Wait..."
Upon hearing the sound, the two of them looked over at it together.
Huan'er carefully examined the cloud on the clothes for a while, after all, the two of them had spent some time together, inseparable.
Her eyes widened, and then she suddenly cried out in surprise, "Your Highness?!"
Granny Zhang's eyesight wasn't as good as hers, and she repeated, puzzled, "Your Highness, the Princess?"
Suddenly, Huan'er knelt down and bowed solemnly to her, saying, "This servant greets Your Highness, the Princess!"
Only then did Granny Zhang slowly step forward two steps and finally recognize him.
Overjoyed, he burst into tears, letting out a series of delighted cries.
"Who are you……"
"You really are..."
"Your Highness!"
"Amitabha!"
"Thank God!"
"Heaven has eyes!"
"You're still alive!"
"You're finally back!"
"But His Highness..."
"And the Imperial Concubine, Her Highness, she..."
Yi Shangyun helped up Zhang Mama, who was already in a state of extreme inner turmoil, and comforted her, saying, "I know, I already know!"
Then, he went over and helped Huan'er up.
He then walked to Consort Chun's side and said, "Let me check on Her Highness's condition first..."
While carefully examining Consort Chun's body and taking her pulse, Yi Shangyun asked, "Was it Huan'er who first discovered that Consort Chun had stopped breathing?"
Huan'er shook her head: "It wasn't me who discovered it first."
Yi Shangyun asked again, "Is that Granny Zhang?"
Zhang Mama hesitated for a moment before saying, "It was... the Consort! Because the Dowager Consort slept until dark without waking up, this old servant thought it was because Her Highness was worried about His Highness not sleeping all night and had finally managed to close her eyes, so I thought I'd let her sleep a little longer, but who knew..."
"Clearly, the one who poisoned him must be Lu Tianjiao!"
Despite this, a strange sadness still lingered in her heart: "No matter what, Lu Tianjiao is now the mistress of this palace..."
Granny Zhang seemed to have sensed her hidden thoughts, so she quickly explained, "Your Highness, please don't overthink it. Lu Tianjiao is the Empress Dowager's person, and His Highness doesn't allow her to come to Zihe Pavilion. But she always comes to Zihe Pavilion to provoke you from time to time. Last time, she even made Your Highness vomit blood!"
At this moment, Yi Shangyun's brows furrowed, and he suddenly exclaimed, "He's been poisoned!"
Upon hearing the sound, Granny Zhang and Huan'er exclaimed in unison.
"What?!"
"Poisoning?!"
Yi Shangyun quickly took out silver needles from his body and drained the poisoned blood from several places.
Then he went to the side and wrote down a prescription, got up and walked to Huan'er's side, saying, "Huan'er, quickly give this prescription to Physician Yue."
Huan'er looked at it, puzzled, and silently recited the last two lines: "Using a plan against a plan, deceiving the heavens to cross the sea?"
Yi Shangyun nodded and said, "He'll understand once he sees it!"
After Huan'er left, Granny Zhang was heartbroken: "Your Highness, please don't blame His Highness. Marrying Lu Tianjiao was not His Highness's original intention..."
"It's all in the past!" Yi Shangyun smiled calmly, seemingly unperturbed.
Finally, he instructed her, "Remember what I said, take good care of the Empress Dowager, I'm leaving!"
Just as he was about to take a step, the weak voice of Consort Chun suddenly came: "Are you really still alive?"
Yi Shangyun turned around abruptly and said in a soft voice, "Your Highness, the Imperial Concubine!"
With the help of Zhang Mama, Consort Chun struggled to sit up and spoke haltingly.
"I never expected that I would be resurrected again..."
"They've used the same trick again, taking advantage of that girl once more. It seems she's really impatient!"
Then he took another serious look at the clouds on his clothes and said.
"From the very beginning, it was all my fault. Please go back to the King of Qin. He can't live without you!"
"Only when you are around will he care about himself and not do something that has no chance of success."
"At this point, no news is perhaps the best news!"
"So Consort Chun already knew about this!"
Yi Shangyun thought for a moment, then hesitated, "But I am not..."
Consort Chun pressed further, "What is it that isn't?"
After thinking for a moment, Yi Shangyun finally confessed: "Actually... I am not the Yi Shangyun of your time and space."
Consort Chun asked, puzzled, "What did you say?"
...
Upon hearing Yi Shangyun's words, Consort Chun and Granny Zhang exchanged bewildered glances, unsure of what to do.
The cloud on his clothes seemed to only offer an apology: "I'm sorry!"
After thinking for a long time, Consort Chun finally spoke up: "No matter which time or space you belong to, my son only loves you, loves you to the core. Originally, I thought that with his cold nature, no woman could ever catch his eye in this lifetime, but I never expected..."
After a pause, Consort Chun continued, "Ever since you left, my son has stayed at Yunshui Pavilion almost every night. Go and see for yourself, every brick, every tile, every flower, every blade of grass, and even the servants are exactly the same as when you were here, not one more, not one less."
"Now everyone in the palace knows that he can only sleep peacefully there, because there is your presence there."
...
We arrived at Yunshui Pavilion.
Seeing everything just as Consort Chun had said, and recalling the past, Yi Shangyun didn't know why she was shedding tears: "Why did you have to do this?"
Finally, she made up her mind: "I will definitely bring you back!"
Upon returning to the palace.
Yi Shangyun then went directly to Xuan Yuanhao, seeking his help...
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