"She is amazing. She overturned the case for Lord Lin, cleared his name, and took over her father's responsibility to cleanse the world of its evils and restore justice. She is truly a great and gentle person."
“I thought she could always realize her ideals, but on the way after I was chosen by my father to marry him, I learned of her death. Her true identity as a woman was discovered and she was accused in front of my father. In the carriage, I felt like I coughed up all my blood. I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t cry.”
"I died on the way to a marriage alliance, but I couldn't save the top scholar in my heart."
Two lines of clear tears had already fallen from Dunke's pale face. He looked at Qingyin with sorrowful eyes and pleaded, "Please, Your Excellency, save Lin Rouqing. Let Rouqing continue to shine in the court."
"Okay, sign it." Qingyin nodded, and a contract appeared in front of Dunke.
Dunke signed the document without the slightest hesitation.
"Come on, lie down in the River of Time, and you'll have everything when you wake up." Qingyin led the gentle and kind princess into the River of Time.
A moment of dizziness, and Qingyin opened her eyes.
At this time, Dunke was fourteen years old, and Lin Rouqing was already taking the imperial examination. A few months later, Lin Rouqing passed the examination with top honors. They met on the day of the royal winter hunt. It had been quite a long time. Qingyin recalled her memories.
Qingyin got up, panting heavily from exhaustion. Her health was really poor. Qingyin frowned slightly.
"Yinyin, how do you plan to grant the wisher's wish?" the system asked curiously.
"Marry her, and as long as you have her princess status to back you up, no one will dare to expose you."
The system exclaimed in surprise, "Yinyin, you're going to turn someone gay again!"
Qingyin glared at the system, "What do you mean by 'gay'? If I, as a princess, were to be married off for political reasons, how could I help her, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review!"
"Hehe," the cowardly system chuckled sheepishly.
"Check the system to see if there is any medicine that makes someone appear extremely weak. We must dissuade Kangxi from sending her to a marriage alliance."
"Alright! Yinyin, this is the Fake Illness Pill. Not only can it make you pretend to be sick, but it also works the same as the Health Pill. And it has even more special effects when used together with the Beauty Pill."
"Okay, give it to me."
After taking two pills, Qingyin felt much better and her walking became less heavy. Only then did she walk to the dressing mirror and carefully examine her face.
As expected of a princess, she had delicate eyebrows, slender eyes, cherry lips, and a fine nose. Her hair, which was slightly yellow due to her frail health, fell over her shoulders. If she weren't so weak, her face would be even more beautiful, but this only made her appear more delicate and pitiful.
"Princess, why didn't you call me?" Princess Dunke's personal maid, Tao Su, immediately helped Qingyin up with concern.
Tao Su was a personal maidservant left to Zhangjia's daughter. She was the child of Zhangjia's wet nurse and grew up with Dunke from a young age. She was very loyal. Because Dunke was gentle, she was more strong-willed and strict, and she was more powerful in managing her subordinates.
Qingyin patted Taosu's arm. "Susu, I just wanted to get up for a drink of water. It's nothing."
“The princess is weak, so of course she needs to employ more servants.”
Seeing Tao Su's disapproving and self-reproachful look, Qing Yin had no choice but to agree to her request to make her feel better.
As time went by, Qingyin began to experience the combined effects of the feigning illness pill and the beauty pill, and her face was clearly heading further and further down the path of a sickly beauty.
Her originally fair and rosy skin evolved into a snow-white color like cold jade, and her yellowish long hair even began to turn white, which frightened Tao Su so much that she quickly went to fetch the imperial physician.
Physician He, who was forcibly pulled to be on duty, was not concerned at first. But when he heard Tao Su say that the young Fifteenth Princess already had white hair and ran faster than Tao Su, he realized that this was a sign of the princess's life force being lost and a sign of impending doom. Something terrible had happened to the princess!
Qingyin pretended to be weak as she lay on the bed. Her hair, which was mostly white, fell on her face, which was so white it was almost transparent. This did not detract from her beauty; instead, it made her look even more eerie and cold, making people doubt their own eyes.
"Princess Dunke?" Physician He asked tremulously.
"Imperial Physician, please." Qingyin extended her jade-like hand.
Having gained confirmation, Physician He dared not look at the princess's strangely beautiful face any longer. He straightened his gaze and placed his hand on her pulse.
In just a few seconds, Physician He felt a chill run down his spine. The pulse was weak and the vital energy was waning; these were signs of an early death!
"Well, the princess needs to rest more."
After leaving the inner hall, Physician He told Tao Su, who had been given a meaningful look, the truth: "Miss Tao Su, this is not something we can decide. Quickly send someone to invite the Emperor. I will have someone brew some tonics to help the princess recover from her depleted energy."
Tao Su couldn't help but cry, but afraid that the princess would hear, she could only cover her mouth and tremble as she made some weak sounds. Her eyes were full of despair. The princess was so kind, why did that wicked heaven have to take the princess's life?
The eunuch Xiao Li, who was in charge of delivering the message, felt bitter. The princess's serious illness was no easy task. Unfortunately, he happened to be on duty today and was seen by Aunt Tao Su.
As Xiao Li walked through the corridor and looked at the magnificent Qianqing Palace, which he had never been to before, he remembered something urgent and hurriedly knelt before the guard with a sword. "Please inform the lord that I am from the palace of the Fifteenth Princess, and something has happened to the Fifteenth Princess."
Upon hearing that it concerned the princess, the guards with swords dared not delay and happened to run into Liang Jiugong, who had come out after hearing the commotion.
"Why are you running so fast? Don't you know the rules of the palace?"
The guard immediately knelt down and said, "Your Excellency, the eunuch of the Fifteenth Princess has come to report that the Fifteenth Princess is ill."
"What! Take me there immediately." Princesses usually don't report minor illnesses to the Emperor. Oh no, something terrible has happened to the Fifteenth Princess! Liang Jiugong realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately led the flustered and trembling Xiao Li to the Emperor's presence.
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