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"Your Highness, who do you think could have poisoned this subject?"
Xiao Chengyou didn't say anything.
"I was completely busy with government affairs, how could I know what was going on in your Xu family's backyard?"
He was not like others who liked to pry into the private affairs of his ministers. He only cared about whether they were competent for their duties.
Xu Lingyi just smiled faintly, her expression gentle and indifferent.
Now her beauty is on display, and every move she makes is captivating. Although she is stunningly beautiful, her beauty is not aggressive. Instead, she has a gentle and delicate charm.
However, Xiao Chengyou knew that she was not like many worldly women who were blindly submissive and gentle.
Occasionally she had her own edge, and he had seen it.
"Your Highness can take a guess."
She didn't seem to mind the fact that she was poisoned. She had a faint smile on her face and her voice was still soft.
In fact, when Xiao Chengyou first saw her, even though she was ugly, he did not have any prejudice against her.
It seemed that everything started after he knew that she was a daughter of the Xu family. He always looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze.
Thinking carefully, if she was not a daughter of the Xu family, he would not be so wary of her.
"Is it Xu Baozhu?"
Xu Lingyi shook her head. "This poison is a chronic poison. It has been in my body for many years. Xu Baozhu is even a year younger than me."
"That's your father's wife, Princess Zhenyang." Xiao Chengyou guessed.
She was in the backyard, and the only person who could poison her was the woman in the backyard of Xu's mansion.
Xu Lingyi smiled but said nothing.
If she had directly said that she was Princess Zhenyang, Xiao Chengyou might still have doubted her, but now this was his own guess.
Princess Zhenyang was a woman from the harem. Xiao Chengyou had been in the court for a long time and didn't know her well, but he had heard of her arrogant and domineering reputation in the past.
"Princess Zhenyang can't even tolerate a concubine's daughter?"
After all, they are relatives, how can they be so petty?
"Because she feels guilty." Xu Lingyi lowered her eyes and the smile on her face disappeared a little.
"Your Highness, don't you know that I am different from ordinary concubines?"
Xiao Chengyou shook his head.
"It seems that His Highness is indeed as the rumors said before."
"What rumors have been spread about me in the past?"
Xu Lingyi reclaimed this piece of land and planted some vegetables. Now it is lush and green.
She bent down, her long, inky hair hanging casually in front of her chest.
"People in the capital used to say that you were not interested in women and were not close to human nature."
Xiao Chengyou nodded. His father, as the emperor, seldom left the palace. As the crown prince, he was the same. He did not leave the palace many times a year, and when he did, it was only to handle official business.
In addition to rarely leaving the palace, the most important thing is that he strictly abides by the rules.
Even though he was favored by his father, he knew that as a prince, there were some things he could not do.
For example, making friends with important officials, let alone understanding their private affairs in the harem.
"In the past, the Emperor showed me special favoritism, and I never thought of stepping out of line in the slightest. I simply fulfilled my duty as Crown Prince."
Besides, the emperor is getting older, and he is somewhat suspicious even of him.
After realizing this, it would be even less likely for him to form a clique or investigate anything.
Xu Lingyi lowered her eyes, stretched out her fair hands, and put the vegetables into the basket.
"Then it's normal that Your Highness doesn't know."
She had heard Xu Baozhu complain before that even though she was the prince's fiancée, she had only met the prince once at a banquet.
It was that time when she fell into the water and was soaked all over. She accidentally bumped into the prince's arms, and then the engagement came about.
From then on, she never met the prince again.
"My mother was originally my father's legal wife. After my father met Princess Zhenyang, my mother voluntarily accepted the position of concubine."
A mocking smile appeared on Xu Lingyi's lips.
"Very few people in the capital know about this. Many people believe that my mother was my father's concubine. When my father went to the capital to take the imperial examination, my mother took care of his parents in my hometown."
"After my father became the top scholar in the imperial examination, my mother brought me to Beijing. He never acknowledged my mother's identity as his first wife in public."
"Only the Jinshi from his hometown knew about this. My father only told others that it was my mother's own will."
Xu Lingyi finished speaking, "I know Your Highness doesn't believe me, so you can just treat this as a joke."
Xiao Chengyou didn't say anything, but in fact he didn't disbelieve it.
Just over a month after she left the Xu Mansion, her face returned to normal and was no longer as scary as before.
This means that she already knew how to detoxify, but she just didn't know how before.
He could guess the reason.
In Xu's house, she didn't dare to detoxify.
Perhaps there was some truth in what she said. Her life in the Xu Mansion was not easy.
But Xiao Chengyou still didn't dare to believe it completely.
"You are stronger than me." Xiao Chengyou suddenly spoke.
He was once poisoned and diagnosed by the imperial physician that he would never have children. He was depressed for several months.
No matter how hard it is, he will never be able to let it go. This is a pain that he will never be able to accept in his life.
Women pay more attention to their appearance, but Xu Lingyi remained calm even after being poisoned.
Even though she was locked up here, she didn't seem sad at all.
"It's not that I'm better than Your Highness, it's just that I've gotten used to it. After experiencing so many things, I realize I can only accept them. One day of sadness is one day, and another of joy is another."
Xiao Chengyou was stunned. He had never thought that he would hear such words from a woman.
He frowned and didn't speak for a long time.
"You're right."
The gloom in his heart seemed to be slightly less.
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"Your Highness, you have lost a lot of weight..." The eunuch's eyes were slightly red.
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