Chen Xiyin's gaze sharpened slightly.
Seeing this, she knew that her previous guesses were probably correct.
Xiao Yan briefly examined the lady's condition, then asked Shen Qiyin, "How is she?"
"The fever was caused by a cold, and I've already taken medication."
"In your opinion, is it possible for her to be moved easily given her current condition?" Although the small house was tidy and clean, it was still too simple and not suitable for recuperation.
Shen Qiyin naturally understood Xiao Yan's meaning.
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"Let's wait until Madam is fully recovered before we talk about it. After all, she just sweated it out. If she catches a chill again after all this, her illness might relapse." She paused and then added, "If you're worried, you can find two trustworthy maids to come and take care of her. I can also come and check on her whenever I have free time."
"Um."
Xiao Yan responded with a deep voice.
He lowered his eyes to look at the person on the kang (a heated brick bed), his gaze deep and dark.
After an unknown amount of time, he finally spoke, "Since you've come to find me, you must have already guessed her identity."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin gave a soft "hmm".
Xiao Yan's gaze remained fixed on the lady, but he took Shen Qiyin's hand and said, "I lost my mother when I was young. My father was obsessed with elixirs and didn't care much about me. My aunt was worried about me, so she simply took me to live in the palace."
“My aunt Si was an old friend of my mother before she got married, so she treated me very well, and was no different from my aunt.”
"His Highness the Crown Prince treats me like a brother."
"Yinyin, they are all the best people in the world."
Shen Qiyin unconsciously tightened her grip on his hand: "That so-called curse technique..."
"It was nothing more than a meticulously planned frame-up."
"But why did His Majesty believe it?"
Xiao Yan suddenly sneered and said, "It was all a trap he set up, so of course he'll believe it."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qiyin was stunned: "Your Majesty set this up?!"
She had considered that the Empress and the Crown Prince might be innocent, but her thinking had always been focused on the power struggles within the harem, and she had never imagined that the person behind it all was the current Emperor!
"Why would he do this?" According to Xiao Yan, the Empress and the Crown Prince were not people who harbored rebellious intentions.
"Because the Crown Prince's prestige was too great, it made him wary."
In fact, the reason why Emperor Xuanwu was able to ascend the throne was not because he stood out among the late emperor's sons, but because the late emperor favored the crown prince who was then the emperor's grandson.
The late emperor passed the throne to Emperor Xuanwu so that his grandson could become emperor.
The condition was that the future crown prince must be made the imperial grandson.
"He was worried that the Crown Prince was too powerful and would one day suddenly oust him, so he disregarded the relationship between husband and wife and father and son and struck first."
These are already considered royal secrets.
Shen Xiyin was shocked to hear this.
She then looked at Xiao Yan with surprise and doubt: "Then, how did you know all this?"
If he had known the truth at the time, given his personality and his relationship with the Empress and the Crown Prince, he certainly wouldn't have stood idly by.
On the contrary, if he only found out later, then perhaps this was the truth behind his control of the government in his previous life.
Xiao Yan: "I don't believe that Aunt Si and the Crown Prince would do such a thing, so I have been investigating in secret. In addition, my aunt is in the palace. Although it is not easy to find out the truth, it is not without clues."
"You didn't tell His Majesty, but chose to investigate secretly. Was it because you were worried about not being able to do it, or did you not trust him from the beginning?" If it was the latter, then why?
After a moment of silence, Xiao Yan spoke again, his voice growing colder: "A person like him is not worthy of trust!"
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