During the period when the emperor was seriously ill, Qin Xuelin would send him some soup and water from time to time in order to get information.

Meiren Yue was unhappy at first, fearing that Qin Xuelin would discover something, and tried to stop her. Fortunately, the emperor was still conscious at that time, and after a few times, the people in Taiji Hall got used to Qin Xuelin coming over every now and then, and even Meiren Yue stopped saying anything.

This just happened to serve as a cover for Lu Yanluo. Lu Yanluo mixed in with Qin Xuelin's maids and changed her appearance to avoid being recognized.

But the guards at the Taiji Hall were much more lax than Lu Yanluo had imagined.

I originally thought that Yue Meiren and Kong Chenyang would keep the emperor under strict watch and not let anyone see him easily, but when I got here, I found that there were only a few guards at the door, and only three or four palace maids and eunuchs on duty in the main hall and the bedroom. Suddenly, one would think that the person lying inside was an unfavored concubine, not the emperor who was high above him.

Several people walked calmly into the emperor's bedroom. Qin Xuelin waved her hand and drove out the eunuchs inside: "I want to accompany His Majesty here for a while today. You can go out first. If there is nothing important, don't let strangers disturb me and His Majesty."

As she spoke, Qin Xuelin pretended to cry and raised her hand to wipe away her non-existent tears with a handkerchief.

The eunuchs did not suspect anything and quickly retreated.

They have lived in this palace for half their lives and understand too well the helplessness of the women in the harem. They have to wait for a man's favor all their lives in the palace, and once the man dies, the lives of these women are over.

After the eunuchs left, Qin Xuelin quickly walked to the door and looked around. Seeing that there was no one around, she closed the door with confidence. She turned around and slowly nodded to Lu Yanluo, indicating that everything was fine.

Lu Yanluo did not dare to delay and immediately walked to the emperor's bedside to take his pulse. She then frowned. His pulse was weak and sometimes absent. His face was as pale as paper and his body temperature was low. It was obvious that the poison had entered his lungs and he was about to die.

Without caring about anything else, Lu Yanluo took out several silver needles from her arms and quickly inserted them into several major acupoints on the emperor's body. Within a few breaths, the emperor, who had been pale, suddenly turned blue purple, his whole body twitched, and he struggled to vomit blood.

Qin Xuelin was startled and could not help but clench her hands, secretly praying that she would be safe this time.

After vomiting a mouthful of black blood, the emperor's face finally showed a trace of blood. After a cup of tea, the man who had been in a coma for many days finally woke up.

"You...how come you are...in..." The emperor had been sleeping for so long that he barely had the strength to speak.

Time was running out, and Lu Yanluo didn't want to beat around the bush with him, so she went straight to the point and talked about the current situation.

"Your Majesty, I have ventured into the palace to see you today for my prince and the people of Tianji. You may find this unbelievable, but the reality is that since my prince went to Tianque Pass, our soldiers have not received any food aid from the court, except for the food they brought with them."

"The situation is critical and urgent. Your Majesty, please issue an order immediately and have the guards of the Night Palace escort him to Tianque Pass in person."

The emperor struggled to sit down. Qin Xuelin stepped forward, helped him up, and leaned him against the pillow behind him.

Just simply standing up seemed to have exhausted all the emperor's strength, and he took a long time to gasp for air before he calmed down.

"You... you are talking nonsense! I... I personally issued an order to send more food and fodder to Tianque Pass three times. How could Tianque Pass be short of food? You... you are playing some tricks again!"

He was the one who personally issued the order to send more food and fodder to Tianque Pass. But now Lu Yanluo came to tell him that Tianque Pass had been out of food for many days. How could he believe it!

Lu Yanluo didn't care about etiquette and rank upon hearing this. She snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Yes, Your Majesty has issued orders to send food and grass to Tianque Pass three times. But what Your Majesty doesn't know is that these food and grass were replaced halfway and sent to Tatuo instead. They became Tatuo's help in attacking Tianji, while our Tianji soldiers are starving and fighting hard on the battlefield every day!"

"How...how could it be possible!" Who would be so bold as to drop the baggage and food supplies on the way?

Lu Yanluo looked at the emperor, whose face was sallow and looked almost deathly pale, and could not help but feel a hint of pity in her eyes.

The emperor had been suspicious and calculating all his life, even his own sons were not spared, so that when he was dying, there was not even a single person around him who was truly sincere to him.

"Of course not. In fact, Your Majesty should have known about this matter a long time ago, but the prince and I have no definite evidence, and..."

Lu Yanluo sneered, "Your Highness is afraid that without concrete evidence, it will arouse the suspicion of His Majesty, so he has not dared to explain to you yet. The court official you value, Kong Chenyang, his real name is A Hongshan, and he is from Tatuo."

Seeing the emperor's eyes widened in disbelief, Lu Yanluo snorted and laughed: "Speaking of Ah Hongshan, I have to mention another old friend of your majesty who has passed away for many years, Princess Luochuan of the Jingjing Kingdom. Does your majesty still remember her?"

The emperor looked enlightened and couldn't stop sweating. He remembered, how could he not remember, many years ago, he was still a proud and ambitious prince.

In order to gain the appreciation of his father, he volunteered to go to the Kingdom of Jingjing.

The woman, in her red dress, was dazzling, like the colorful clouds in the sky, making people feel beautiful.

She saved him, but he used her to kill her people and destroy her home.

"I was dreaming at midnight, did your Majesty's old friend come into your dream?" Lu Yanluo let out a cold smile, "Ah Hongshan and Luochuan grew up together, and witnessed the fall of the Jingjing Kingdom with his own eyes. Princess Luochuan jumped off the city wall, so he shouldered the hatred and became Kong Chenyang, just to avenge Luochuan."

"And you, who have been scheming all your life, never thought that the one you trusted wholeheartedly was the one who really wanted to kill you. You let Kong Chenyang join the cabinet, which was tantamount to seeking your own death. He colluded with Yue Meiren, stole the imperial seal privately, forged the imperial edict, and sent food and supplies to the enemy country, blockaded the capital, and prevented the crisis at Tianque Pass from reaching the emperor."

"This is the truth. You trusted the wrong person and caused innocent soldiers to starve and die in a foreign land."

The emperor tried his best and shook his head: "No... Impossible! You..."

"Your Majesty, have you never wondered why you suddenly fell ill? Don't you find it strange?" Lu Yanluo interrupted the emperor and the question she asked made the emperor stunned on the spot.

"Is... is it poison?" Apart from poisoning, he couldn't think of any other reason that would cause his body to collapse so suddenly.