Chapter 70
Li Jinghe and Su Yuexing were taken aback and looked at the person standing not far away.
Sai Taxue smiled and said, "It's quite surprising that Your Majesty still remembers my mother's name."
As soon as he finished speaking, he tore off the human skin mask from his face and said, "Your Majesty, it has been a long time."
"I wonder if you've ever thought about my blood."
Ouyang Wen stared wide-eyed and asked, "What is your purpose in entering the palace at this time?!"
Su Yuexing was shocked, never expecting that Sai Taxue had been by her side all along.
Sai Taxue revealed a strange smile, "Of course I want to see this scene with my own eyes." After saying that, he took out a bell from his pocket and shook it.
Li Jinghe painfully covered his ears, feeling dizzy and lightheaded.
"Li Jinghe! What's wrong with you?" Su Yuexing shouted.
Li Jinghe's hands moved uncontrollably to choke Ouyang Wen's neck.
“He’er…” Ouyang Wen cried out in anguish.
Fortunately, Su Yuexing was strong enough to pry Li Jinghe's hands open, but Ouyang Wen's body was not in good condition.
He felt like he couldn't breathe, his lips were turning purple, and he reached out to Li Jinghe.
Sai Taxue continued to ring the bell, and Li Jinghe suddenly pushed Su Yuexing down and continued to choke Ouyang Wen's neck.
Su Yuexing knew that Sai Taxue was the mastermind behind this, so she took action against him.
Just as she was about to come over, Sai Taxue shot a silver needle into her acupoint, instantly immobilizing her.
Ouyang Wen's eyes rolled upwards, and he lost all strength to struggle, while Sai Taxue was still desperately shaking the bell in her hand.
As Su Yuexing watched Li Jinghe kill her father with his own hands, she pleaded in her heart: Stop shaking, stop shaking.
Sai Taxue's eyes were full of smugness.
Ouyang Wen! How does it feel to be killed by your own child?
This is what you owe me! What you owe my mother!
When you once slashed my body and took my blood, you should have thought of this ending!
When Sai Taxue stopped, Li Jinghe's eyes slowly returned to normal. He was startled when he saw Ouyang Wen, who was no longer moving.
He quickly got out of bed, his eyes turning cold as he looked at Sai Taxue, and asked, "How did you control me?"
Sai Taxue sneered and shook the bell. Li Jinghe immediately covered his ears, feeling like his head was about to explode.
Then, as soon as Sai Taxue's bells stopped ringing, Li Jinghe felt much more at peace.
"When did I get infected?" Li Jinghe questioned.
Sai Taxue sneered, "Want to know? Go ask your uncle."
Li Jinghe frowned and said, "But I didn't drink their medicine."
Su Yuexing was startled. What kind of medicine? Could it be that the people from the Dream Mansion poisoned him?
Sai Taxue said calmly, "Judging from your complexion, you definitely didn't take the medicine they gave you."
"You may have concocted a similar medicine yourself, but my medicine has a unique feature."
"You don't need to drink it. As long as you smell it long enough, I can still control you!"
After saying that, he walked up to Li Jinghe with a regretful expression and said, "Do you know why your uncle wanted to remove the people from here?"
"It's just to make it easier for me to do it!"
Li Jinghe gritted his teeth. He had been very careful, but they still managed to outmaneuver him.
Sai Taxue said with a look of disdain, "Do you know where you went wrong?"
"It's actually still about medical skills."
"But it's not your fault. Medical skills are an innate talent of our witch doctor clan."
Upon receiving news that the Emperor had been strangled to death by Li Jinghe, the Prime Minister immediately led his troops to surround the imperial bedchamber.
"Guards! Quickly rescue the Fourth Prince! The Emperor was killed by Sai Taxue!" Meng Kang shouted from outside the door.
Sai Taxue's eyes turned cold. What a cunning old fox who kicks people when they've served their purpose!
Outside were archers, their arrows all aimed at the room.
Sai Taxue removed the silver needles from Su Yuexing's body. "Shouldn't we join forces?"
Su Yuexing stopped raising her fist. In this situation, only by joining forces could they possibly get out.
Sai Taxue explained, "Li Jinghe, they will absolutely not let you die, because they want you to be a puppet emperor."
"The reason they drugged you was to control you."
“But they didn’t expect that you didn’t drink their medicine, and right now the only people who know about this are me and her.” Sai Taxue pointed at Su Yuexing.
"She would never tell anyone, but if they catch me, do you think you can keep this secret?"
"Your secret has been exposed. What makes you so confident that you can bring them down?"
Li Jinghe's eyes darkened. He was very good at protecting his own life, so he had no choice but to do as he was told.
Because only by cooperating with him can one minimize the damage to oneself.
“Okay! I agree to cooperate with you,” Li Jinghe said.
If Sai Taxue could win him over, things would be much easier.
He then changed the subject, saying, "But you know what I want."
Sai Taxue assured her, "Don't worry, I will give you the antidote once I am safely out of danger."
Su Yuexing looked at him and said, "Do you think we'll believe you?"
Sai Taxue said indifferently, "Do you have any other choice?"
Su Yuexing pursed her lips; what he said made a lot of sense.
Li Jinghe took out a pill from his pocket and said, "This is poison. Take it and let me know your sincerity."
Sai Taxue took the pill from his hand and swallowed it without thinking.
Then, he took out two pills from his pocket, gave one to Su Yuexing, and said, "This is the antidote."
"And the one I have in my hand is a drug to fake death."
"You should understand what I mean," he said, looking at the two of them.
Su Yuexing and Li Jinghe exchanged a glance and said in unison, "We understand."
After taking the pill, Sai Taxue closed his eyes and collapsed to the ground. Li Jinghe checked his pulse and nodded, saying, "That's enough."
Su Yuexing brought out Sai Taxue's body. Meng Kang looked on warily, fearing that Su Yuexing was up to no good.
“I have already killed the man, but when I arrived, the Emperor had already been killed by him,” Su Yuexing said.
Meng Kang feigned shock, knelt on the ground and cried out, "His Majesty has passed away!"
Everyone outside knelt down.
Afterwards, Meng Kang placed his hand on Sai Taxue's nose to confirm that he was dead, and ordered his body to be thrown into a mass grave.
At night, Su Yuexing secretly went to the mass grave to look for Sai Taxue's body.
She searched high and low, but where was he? Why couldn't she find him?
The smell of rotting corpses was nauseating.
Just as she was about to give up, she saw a hand, pushed the other corpses aside, and saw Seraphim trapped underneath.
She breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally, I see you." She then carried him on her back.
They brought him back to the previous courtyard. Hua and Yue heard the commotion and rushed over. Seeing the person on Su Yuexing's back, they said, "Wasn't he dead?"
"Why did you bring the body back?"
Su Yuexing explained, "He is not dead."
After saying that, she put him off her back and took out the antidote he had given her earlier.
Should I save him or not?
If he dies, what will happen to the poison in Li Jinghe's body?
But he also bears responsibility for Xiao Bao's death! He killed Xiao Bao.
She put the pills back into the bottle and turned to leave.
Hua and Yue looked puzzled. "What about him?" Yue asked.
Without turning her head, Su Yuexing said, "Wait until he dies."
Yue and Hua exchanged a glance, then looked at Sai Taxue lying on the bed.
Yue said, "Hua, I feel like something's wrong with you."
Feeling guilty, Hua feigned confusion and asked, "Something seems off?"
The moon circled around her once, glanced at her, and said, "Why did you hide this from me!"
Hua said with a guilty expression, "I'm sorry!"
Yue exclaimed in disbelief, "You actually lied to me for someone I've known for less than a year!"
"And this person even harmed his master!"
Hua explained, "Because I felt a lot of pity for him, I felt sorry for him."
Yue shouted, "Hua! Don't you know that as secret guards, we are not allowed to show compassion to others?!"
Hanamichi: "I know!"
Yue really had no way to deal with her, and said, "You should adjust yourself and know your place."
After saying that, she left, and Hua stayed by Sai Taxue's side all night.
Su Yuexing returned home early in the morning and saw Hua Shou there. She asked in surprise, "Why are you still here?"
Hua looked somewhat haggard and said, "I'll think of an answer here."
Su Yuexing raised an eyebrow, glanced at Sai Taxue on the bed, and said, "Have you figured it out yet?"
Hua nodded and said, "I've figured it out." Then she went out of the room, the sunlight shining on her head.
At that moment, knowing what she needed to do, she felt incredibly relieved.
Su Yuexing came to Sai Taxue's side, poured out the pills in her hand again, and put them into his mouth.
Fifteen minutes later, Sai Taxue opened her eyes, looked around, covered her head, and got out of bed.
"How long did I sleep?" he asked.
Su Yuexing said coldly, "It's just one night."
Sai Taxue looked at her; she was moving quite fast.
"The antidote," Su Yuexing said coldly.
Sai Taxue said, "Give me some time, and I will prepare the antidote."
“One month,” she said.
Sai Taxue nodded and said, "Okay! A month is enough."
After the late emperor's funeral, Li Jinghe changed his name to Ouyang Jinghe and ascended the throne as emperor in accordance with the imperial edict.
The late emperor's children were all shocked. They had never imagined that the late emperor had an illegitimate child, and that this illegitimate child was related to someone from the Duke's mansion.
The Third Prince, Ouyang Xiuzhu, was displeased and led his men to cause a disturbance at the Duke's mansion, for which Li Jinghe ordered him to be imprisoned in the dungeon.
Meanwhile, the eldest prince, Ouyang Huai, led his army back from the border and surrounded the capital, setting the stage for a fierce battle.
Meng Kang had anticipated this situation. He took out the late emperor's edict and a letter he had written to Ouyang Huai, showing it to him. If Ouyang Huai still insisted on going down the wrong path and refused to withdraw his troops, then his mother and the Yang family would not have a good end.
Before fighting him, we will definitely kill his mother and two hundred members of the Yang family first.
Left with no other option, Ouyang Huai had to retreat, leaving behind a threatening statement: "If my mother has any dealings with the Yang family, then they will surely raze the capital to the ground!"
A month has passed
Sai Taxue handed the prepared antidote to Su Yuexing, saying, "This is the antidote. Just give it to him."
Su Yuexing took out a medicine bottle from her bosom and handed it to him, saying, "This is your medicine." Sai Taxue took it.
She turned to leave, but Sai Taxue called out to her, "Wait!"
She stopped and asked, "What's wrong?"
He said, "I haven't seen any flowers lately."
Su Yuexing's eyes darkened, and she replied, "She went back to where she belonged." Then she left.
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