Chapter 55: Rivals in love understand each other best

Time passed minute by minute, and the Ninth Princess stared at Xu Yanyi fiddling with various things there. The more she watched, the calmer she felt.

Although they were not enemies before, neither she nor Xu Yanyi had the malicious intention to make things difficult for others.

But they are rivals in love after all, and Xu Yanyi is the noble eldest princess who is loved by her father.

Although the Ninth Princess was also a princess, she was questioned from the moment she was born, and the late emperor looked down upon her as a daughter.

In comparison, even if the Ninth Princess and Xu Yanyi are not love rivals, the Ninth Princess is unwilling to interact too much with Xu Yanyi, otherwise... she will be jealous.

However, when the rebels entered the city three years ago, everyone said that it was Xu Yanyi who was instigated. However, the Ninth Princess did not quite believe it. After all, why did Xu Yanyi do that? She was born into a noble family and was doted on. Why did she dig her own grave?

And now... the Ninth Princess stared at Xu Yanyi blankly, and she felt that her noble spirit that belonged to a princess had suddenly returned.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's the reaction! If I didn't have the equipment and special reagents, I wouldn't have to do all these roundabout experiments to prove it."

Xu Yanyi sighed, quickly found a box to put the statue in, threw it out of the back window, and walked to the side of the Ninth Princess, saying seriously, "If you don't believe me, you can just ask someone to pick it up. The coating on it contains radioactive dye.

This dye has radiation, radiation... Well, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, just think of it as toxic, a chronic poison. Many of the symptoms you have are very obvious, such as the swelling of your limbs, which is a characteristic of radiation.

You...it's been so long, and I'm not a doctor. I don't know the extent of your body damage, and I can't guarantee whether you can survive. But if you don't believe me, then..."

"Imperial sister, I... believe you."

The Ninth Princess suddenly said this.

Xu Yanyi was stunned: "Do you believe it?"

The Ninth Princess pursed her lips, struggled to get up and leaned against the bed: "Actually I don't understand what you just said, but you reminded me that since my mother gave me this statue, I have started to feel uncomfortable in various ways. The palace maids who wiped and cared for the statue have been replaced by more than ten people.

Those people basically died from my symptoms, but Mother thought it was unlucky for me and didn't allow anyone to tell anyone about it. If it was according to what you just said, I could have survived, maybe because I didn't have close contact with them and kept them in a corner."

Seeing the Ninth Princess's expression, Xu Yanyi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this person was not stupid.

"It's rare that you believe in me. I thought you didn't believe me and that my efforts would be wasted."

Xu Yanyi raised her eyebrows.

The Ninth Princess' eyes flickered, and she smiled bitterly and said, "It's strange, I'm obviously jealous of you and envy you, but... but after what happened three years ago, I think I'm the only one who doesn't believe that those things have anything to do with you, and I still don't believe it now."

My goodness, it turns out that rivals in love understand each other best.

Isn't this much better than that childhood sweetheart Mu Nanzhou?

Xu Yanyi reached out and helped her lie back down, reminding her: "Although the thing is lost, you still have to ask someone to come and take care of it, otherwise it will affect others. Besides, you have been here for so many years, and your body functions are probably damaged. I can't say for sure whether you can save your life, but if you slowly recuperate, you won't be worse than you are now."

"I understand. There is hope if I can survive. But why did you help me?"

The Ninth Princess' voice was weak, but her eyes were sharp, and she looked very delicate and insightful.

Xu Yanyi raised her eyebrows slightly, walked over and whispered: "I'm just bored. Mu Nanzhou didn't want me to look at you, so I wanted to see him getting mad but unable to kill me. Besides, I saved your life, so you owe me a favor. If I need your help in the future, you have to help me whether you want to or not. How nice."

Upon hearing this, the Ninth Princess coughed a few times, not knowing whether she was angry or something else.

Xu Yanyi curled her lips: "Instead of thinking so much now, you might as well think about who hurt you. Could it be your mother?"

After a long silence, the Ninth Princess shook her head in confusion: "Why did Mother want to harm me like this? If she wanted to kill me, she could have killed me and no one would have known. She is in power now, who dares to say anything? And I heard that Mother also has a statue of the deity, but it is a little smaller and is placed in another room for worship. Mother has had severe migraine attacks recently and has nightmares from time to time. I wonder if this is related to it?"

The Queen Mother has one too?

Xu Yanyi frowned violently, and an idea instantly formed in her mind.

Could it be that the little emperor did this?

Now the little emperor is young and his foundation is not stable. Half of the court are Mu Nanzhou's people, and half are the empress dowager and the grand tutor's people. Mu Nanzhou has a large army under his command, and the little emperor dare not move easily. Moreover, Mu Nanzhou is not in the palace, so he cannot contact him. But it is different for the empress dowager.

But if it was the young emperor who did it and wanted to get rid of the empress dowager and seize power, then she could understand it.

But what about the Ninth Princess? Is it because she is the Queen Mother's biological daughter, but her father doesn't love her and her mother doesn't care for her, so what's the point of getting rid of her?

Could it be that the Ninth Princess knew something important that the little emperor wanted to get rid of as soon as possible?

For example, why did the Ninth Princess accidentally burn the painting of galloping horses?

Thinking of this, Xu Yanyi suddenly asked: "Xiaojiu, I heard that when you had an attack, you insisted on burning that painting of galloping horses. Why was that?"

The Ninth Princess was shocked and was a little stunned.

No one has called her Xiaojiu for a long time. She remembered that when she was a few years old, her father would call her a few times when he came to see her, but he stopped later.

Now that these words came out of Xu Yanyi's mouth, the Ninth Princess felt her nose sore.

The Ninth Princess has been staring at Xu Yanyi. She inexplicably discovered that Xu Yanyi is different from before. The noble aura of the eldest princess is eye-catching. Xu Yanyi was born beautiful, but she always went for the elegant look in the past. Now, she seems to be bright and charming even without makeup.

"Hey, I'm asking you a question. Are you stupid?"

Xu Yanyi stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her eyes.

The Ninth Princess choked, quickly lowered her eyebrows, and whispered: "Royal sister, those were all things that happened when I was confused. Anyway, when I was confused, I felt that the horses in the painting wanted to trample me to death. I don't know why else."

Well, I'm afraid I won't be able to get the answer from a sick person. I have to wait until her condition gets a little better, then maybe she can react.

Thinking of this, Xu Yanyi put aside her doubts and stood up to search everywhere in her room to see if there was anything radioactive that she had missed.

The Ninth Princess stared at her busy back and suddenly asked: "Royal sister, if I can really get better, I... I will definitely not compete with you for Brother Nan Zhou..."