The carriage was parked by the roadside, and there were two figures outside the carriage.
The coachman was seeing An Yuan'er for the first time and couldn't help but be a little curious about her.
"Li Gui, that little girl, she likes our master, doesn't she? She came all this way, and it's heartbreaking to see her crying like that."
Pretty girls are especially endearing, and the coachman felt a little embarrassed for having scared An Yuan'er away with his fierce demeanor earlier.
“Miss An has been living with Master in Chenyang Palace since she was six years old. For a long time, I always thought that the little girl’s feelings for Master were more curiosity and sympathy. If there was any affection, it should be the innocent confusion of youth. But until—on that day of the blood marriage, I realized that I was terribly wrong.”
“I, Li Gui, have seen countless people, but I’ve misjudged this young girl. Her feelings for her master are more than just liking; they’re love! Much more than just liking.”
Li Gui was a eunuch. Although eunuchs cannot have children, it does not mean that they are without emotions and desires. Li Gui has witnessed the two of them get to where they are today and is a witness to their relationship. He sees things clearly.
The coachman asked a few more questions: "And how does the master treat her?"
Li Gui looked up at the sky, her thoughts drifting far away: "You can never imagine how much the master loves her. Miss An, she is the apple of the master's eye, carefully protected, even to the point of risking his life to protect her."
"You probably can't imagine that if you had five or six more years to plan, you could have gotten everything you wanted through other means without taking any risks. But it was only to be with Miss An sooner and give that girl a legitimate explanation that you took this risky move. But you didn't have to do that."
The coachman listened attentively. In the imperial palace, power and status were paramount, yet in such a cold and indifferent place, two lovers quietly emerged.
However, their journey was far too difficult.
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Inside the carriage, An Yuan'er nestled in Yi Chenli's arms, craving his warmth, as she listened to him recount the events that had transpired in recent days.
An Yuan'er really wanted to fatten Yi Chenli up so he could be soft and cuddly when she held him. But now, he had lost so much weight because of the toxins.
An Yuan'er felt a sharp pain in her heart. She increasingly felt that it was too lenient for Yi Chenxuan to be merely deposed as crown prince and imprisoned. Compared to the suffering that Ali had endured, what did Yi Chenxuan's situation amount to?
From Yi Chenli's words, An Yuan'er learned that Lan Jingtang had treated Yi Chenli that day using the method of fighting poison with poison.
Unexpectedly, the poison in Yi Chenli's body was even more potent. The poisonous insects and scorpions were instead corroded by the poison in Yi Chenli's body, and in the end, before the poison was neutralized, those poisonous creatures died first.
Yi Chenxuan intended to harm Yi Chenli, and he went to great lengths to kill him. He didn't even have the antidote for the poison.
Lan Jingtang was also at a loss at the time, but he made a new discovery by chance. The scorpion bit open Yi Chenli's wound, and the poisonous blood from the wound flowed out, which also brought out the poison in his body. The more blood flowed out, the more comfortable Yi Chenli's body felt, and the more he felt.
At that time, Lan Jingtang guessed that the poison had already entered Yi Chenli's bloodline, and any method of detoxification would be futile.
The ancient books of the Lan family once recorded a method called the Blood Cleansing and Blood Exchange Technique.
However, this method is quite difficult and challenging to implement, and Lan Jingtang has never tried it even once.
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