Gu Jiangli understood that the rose was doomed.
Carrying poison in the palace, even if it doesn't harm anyone, is already a serious crime.
Moreover, the rose was discovered under these circumstances.
The guards pinned her hands to the ground and placed the hilts of two swords crossed over her neck.
The rose suddenly lost any chance to resist.
The imperial physician, as if grasping at a glimmer of hope, quickly said:
"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, Yueji has hidden poison in her nail polish. When she meets Consort Gu, she can poison her without anyone noticing. Even if I and the palace servants had eight hundred eyes, it would be difficult to defend against it."
"If it weren't for Consort Gu's reminder today, it would have been very difficult to find out how Consort Yue poisoned her."
The imperial physician's intentions were quite clear.
They have done what they were supposed to do, and all their precautions are very thorough.
Unfortunately, the rose's methods of harming people were too sophisticated, and they couldn't guard against them at all.
Gu Jiangli could actually understand; if Yueji really did use this method to poison someone, it would be very difficult to detect.
The imperial physician continued:
"Now it seems that Consort Gu was able to wake up safely because she had been consuming some rare tonics. The poison and the tonics clashed, causing her blood to flow backward and putting her into a coma."
"But later the tonics took effect, and Consort Gu's own body was not bad. The toxins were expelled in the form of a large amount of blood, which allowed Consort Gu to escape a disaster."
The imperial physician spoke with great logic and reason.
This made up for the fact that she died first and then came back to life.
However, she still had a vague feeling that something was not quite right.
The Empress Dowager was both surprised and furious, and questioned:
"You usually seem so sensible and clever, yet you hid poison in your nail polish? What a vicious mind you have! What deep-seated grudge do you hold against Consort Gu to go to such lengths!"
Rose pursed her lips, remaining silent.
She seemed unwilling to plead guilty or clear her name.
She remained silent, and the emperor lost his patience.
"The evidence was conclusive, so Yue Cai was imprisoned and Eunuch Qin went to interrogate her."
"If she confesses, she will be hanged immediately; if she does not confess, she will be beheaded on another day."
The emperor's two cold words sealed the fate of the rose.
Both of these sound like death.
The only difference is that one has a complete corpse and the other does not.
Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Yueji remained silent as she was taken away, staring intently in Gu Jiangli's direction, as if filled with resentment and anger.
Gu Jiangli didn't know where this resentment came from.
The strange feeling in my heart still hadn't disappeared.
The system came in handy again at this time.
"Zizai, are you there?"
The fact that Rose couldn't detect good or evil values has always bothered her.
His mental world was originally dark, but Zizai's voice quickly appeared in his mind.
Honey, Zizai is here.
"Is the matter with the roses not as simple as it seems?"
This time, the system did not malfunction; instead, it answered directly:
【yes.】
“I knew it. My vomiting of blood and physical death were clearly caused by you.”
【That's absolutely true, honey.】
[You should understand that accidents in this world are either "natural disasters" or "man-made disasters."]
[Your body died and then came back to life; such an accident cannot be called a "natural disaster," but can only be described as a "man-made disaster."]
If the reason for your death and subsequent resurrection cannot be explained, then there will be a loophole in the course of history, which is what you often call a "bug".
To close this loophole, the system will assign someone to intervene, turning this "accident" into a "human-caused" event.
Only then will everything you've experienced have a reasonable explanation.
Gu Jiangli frowned as he listened.
"So, Rose is the one used to fill the gaps?"
【good.】
"No wonder we couldn't check her good or evil rating towards me; it turns out she's one of yours."
[That is indeed the reason. The system had already detected your attraction to the emperor and, in order to give you a warning, arranged for the appearance of roses.]
"That doesn't make sense. She was clearly a maid in the Crown Prince's residence before, someone that Song Wanshan had secretly kept in the palace for many years."
The real rose is dead, just like you. She is merely a new spiritual entity possessing the rose. Her only task is to fill this gap, or in short, to be the "scapegoat."
The reason the system assigned Yueji is precisely because of her past experiences; she will be able to approach the Empress Dowager and you more easily than others.
[As for Song Wanshan cultivating roses, it was also in the hope that one day she could use them to get close to the emperor and achieve her goal of assassinating him. However, you beat her to it and killed Song Wanshan first.]
Gu Jiangli pondered these words carefully.
"You mean, regardless of whether she poisoned it or not, it will ultimately be assumed that she did."
Yes, even if you fail your mission and are sent back to your original world, never to awaken from your deep sleep, she will still be the one who poisoned you.
"So she was doomed."
Gu Jiangli suddenly understood the resentment in Yueji's eyes before she was taken away.
No one would be willing to accept a fate that means certain death.
Honey, don't feel sorry for her.
Because she was already a death row inmate, the system would give these death row inmates a chance to live a little longer if necessary.
Completing this task will be Rose's chance.
Zizai explained it to her from beginning to end.
She had no more questions about the roses.
Seeing her furrowed brow, the emperor assumed she was upset about the roses and comforted her instead:
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