Qin Xuelin carefully took the medicine bottle and put it away carefully: "Don't worry, Madam, wait for my good news."

After seeing Qin Xuelin off, Concubine Xian slowly exhaled, and her tense body slowly relaxed. Now that she had lost the command of the Imperial Guards, she could only hope that Qin Xuelin would succeed.

Just as Concubine Xian was making her wish, less than an hour after Qin Xuelin left, news came from Taiji Hall that the emperor had woken up.

When Concubine Xian received the news, she did not think about anything else. The emperor's health had been like this in recent days. Sometimes he was awake, sometimes he was asleep, but the time he was awake was getting less and less.

But she was a little anxious: "Someone! Go to Concubine Hui and tell her to hurry up and not delay important matters."

Qin Xuelin listened to the people from Fenghua Palace talking expressionlessly, and then said solemnly: "Go back and tell your queen that I will take action as soon as possible, please rest assured."

The palace maid received the reply and went back to report with satisfaction.

Qin Xuelin sneered, took out the porcelain bottle from her arms, and handed it to the palace maid waiting beside her: "Have you figured out what to do?"

The maid's eyes turned red, and she knelt on the ground with a plop, her tone full of fear: "I know, Madam, don't worry, as long as you take good care of my family, I will definitely die for you!"

If Concubine Xian was here at this moment, she would be very shocked, because this palace maid was the spy she arranged to be beside Qin Xuelin when Qin Xuelin first entered the palace.

Qin Xuelin smiled and helped the man up: "Don't blame me, you can only blame yourself for following the wrong master."

The palace maid's family was in the hands of Concubine Xian. Qin Xuelin secretly rescued them and controlled them in her own hands, and in disguised form also controlled the palace maid.

The lights in the Taiji Hall were dim. The emperor lay on his back, breathing with difficulty. He was unwilling to accept this. In recent days, he had been awake less and less. He could clearly feel his life slipping away.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps was heard in the quiet palace. The emperor did not think much about it at first, but the footsteps got closer and closer, stealthily, and finally stopped beside the dragon bed.

The emperor suddenly opened his eyes and demanded, "Who are you? How dare you come in without being summoned? Come here!"

Following the emperor's call, the guards outside the door hurriedly pushed it open.

The little palace maid was so frightened that she collapsed to the ground, shaking all over.

The guards could tell at a glance that there was something strange about the maid, so they grabbed her and began to search her.

As expected, a suspicious porcelain bottle was found in the sleeve. The doctor opened it and smelled it, then said solemnly, "Your Majesty, this is poison!"

The emperor stood up upon hearing this, his pale face full of anger: "You want to poison me? Who sent you? Chu Xuan?"

The little palace maid couldn't stop shaking and her face was pale, but she clenched her teeth and didn't say a word.

The emperor had no patience and waved his hand to collect the money: "Since you won't speak, drag him out and beat him to death!"

Hearing the words "beaten to death", the little maid seemed to be frightened out of her wits and immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong! Please spare my life!"

The little maid was entangled for a while, then gritted her teeth and confessed: "It was...it was Concubine Xian who forced me to poison Your Majesty. My family is in her hands. I have no other choice. I beg Your Majesty to spare my life!"

The emperor was stunned for a moment, then became even more furious: "Go! Call that bitch to me, I want to ask her in person why she wants to harm me!"

When Concubine Xian was called, she didn't understand what was going on until she entered the room and saw the little palace maid kneeling on the ground and trembling uncontrollably. Her heart suddenly skipped a beat and she instinctively thought that Qin Xuelin's plan had been exposed.

As expected, the emperor's face turned livid, his cloudy eyes stared at her, and he asked, "This maid said that you sent her to poison me, Concubine Xian, do you have anything else to say?"

Concubine Xian immediately knelt on the ground and cried out: "Your Majesty, I am innocent! I don't even know this palace maid!" In her heart, she had already begun to secretly plan to put everything on Qin Xuelin, after all, the palace maid came from Qin Xuelin's palace.

Just as she was about to say it, Qin Xuelin rushed in from outside the palace, went straight to the emperor's bedside, and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I think Sister Xian Guifei is definitely not someone who can do such a treasonous thing. I'm afraid there is another hidden reason for this matter."

When the emperor saw that it was her, his expression improved a little, but he still didn't believe it: "This palace maid has already pointed her out, what else could be hidden?"

Qin Xuelin shook her head and said, "This maid was instructed by someone, so how could she easily give out the person who instructed her? Moreover, she said that her family members were in the hands of the other party. Doesn't she have to worry about the lives of her family members now? This person's confession is inconsistent and unreliable. Besides, everyone can see the feelings of Concubine Xian for Your Majesty. I don't believe that Your Majesty would be so cruel as to hurt Your Majesty."

Qin Xuelin listed all the doubts about the matter one by one. After hearing what she said, the emperor looked at Concubine Xian who was kneeling in front of him and crying pitifully, and finally chose to believe what Qin Xuelin said.

Concubine Xian has always been cowardly, and the child she raised is also weak and incompetent. If he hadn't wanted to check and balance Chu Xuan and promoted the mother and son, I'm afraid these two would never have a chance to succeed in their lives.

Subconsciously, the emperor believed that Concubine Xian did not have the courage to poison him.

"Take this maid into custody. Everyone else please leave. I am tired."

It was a false alarm, and Concubine Xian slowly breathed a sigh of relief. She glanced at Qin Xuelin and quickly retreated.

Outside the palace, Qin Xuelin walked up to Concubine Xian and whispered, "I never thought that His Majesty would be so alert today. He almost harmed the Empress."

Concubine Xian did look unhappy, but she was just scared. At this moment, she completely trusted Qin Xuelin who had just helped her to get away with it. She just frowned and blamed her, "Be more cautious next time and don't make any more mistakes. In this palace, you can't make any mistakes step by step!"

Qin Xuelin bowed her head and listened to the instruction, and said respectfully: "I will remember it."

The matter passed quietly, and Concubine Xian did not dare to act rashly for the time being. She stopped the emperor from taking Nanli grass. After a few days, the emperor's condition actually improved a little.

On this day, Lu Yanluo unexpectedly received an invitation to enter the palace. It turned out to be from the unpopular noble lady Liang.

Lu Yanluo took the invitation and looked at it carefully, feeling a little strange, but she still accepted the invitation and entered the palace.

In the corridor, Lu Yanluo met Qin Xuelin, whom she hadn't seen for a few days. Because the two of them had already "fallen out", neither of them spoke first. They looked at each other, confronting each other.

Lu Yanluo turned her eyes away and walked straight past without any courtesy. At this moment, the maid beside Qin Xuelin deliberately raised her hand to stop Lu Yanluo, and scolded her lightly: "Why don't you kneel when you see our imperial concubine?"

Lu Yanluo had a hunch that Qin Xuelin must have something going on here today, so she started acting accordingly.

"Get out of the way! Don't you know who I am? You have no eyes!"