Xiao Yanchu no longer concealed the truth: "Mother, when you were pregnant with your son, you were poisoned by the Soul-Devouring Shadow. This poison can be transmitted from the mother to the child. Since I was ten years old, I have suffered the pain of the poison taking effect on the eighteenth of every month. If I cannot endure that pain, I will die on the day the poison takes effect."
"Even if they can survive, people poisoned by the Soul-Devouring Shadow Poison will not live past the age of twenty-five."
As Xiao Yanchu recounted his story, Consort Jiang's face grew paler and paler, and her lips began to tremble: "Why...why have you never told me this before?"
As the mother of the emperor, Consort Jiang naturally sensed that her son was somewhat weak, but she assumed it was due to the suffering he had endured in his childhood and never considered that he might have been poisoned.
Xiao Yanchu looked at Consort Jiang with a pang of reluctance, but if some things were not clarified, his mother's misunderstanding of Ajin would only deepen.
There are already people secretly targeting Ah Jin. If the Consort is used by someone with ulterior motives, Xiao Yanchu cannot predict what will happen.
One is his mother, and the other is his beloved; both are equally dear to him.
Xiao Yanchu did not want to be caught in a dilemma because of a misunderstanding.
“Mother, I was sent to Qingyue Mountain by Father when I was eight years old. I was poisoned when I was ten. If it weren’t for my master suppressing the poison for me, I wouldn’t have lived to see you. Now that I’ve finally seen you, why should I tell you and make you worry?”
Consort Jiang's tears began to well up; she knew her son would never joke about such a thing.
So her first child could only live to be twenty-five?
No wonder.
No wonder Chu'er was unwilling to marry the princess; it turns out he was afraid of delaying other girls.
Over the years, she had no idea how much suffering her son had endured!
"Chu'er, your mother will go find Instructor Wu right away. Instructor Wu will definitely have a way to detoxify you. If that doesn't work, if that still doesn't work, we'll find the Sage of Medicine. I'll send someone to find the Sage of Medicine to detoxify you right away."
Consort Jiang, her face covered in tears, got up to leave.
"Mother, don't worry, your son's poison has been cured. It was the Miss Su, whom you despised, who risked her life to find the antidote for your son."
Consort Jiang stood frozen in place, staring at Xiao Yanchu in disbelief.
"Chu'er, what exactly happened? Can you tell your mother?" Consort Jiang stepped forward and tightly grasped her son's hand.
"My son was not at home for a while. The people in the manor told you that I went to Jiangnan for an inspection. In fact, Ajin and I were trapped in a cave."
Ah Jin risked being melted by lava to find an ingredient needed to make an antidote, and her face was almost ruined in the process.
Consort Jiang recalled that Su Ruojin's face was indeed very ugly at that time, but she didn't care after it recovered.
I never expected there would be so many twists and turns.
"The poison of the Soul-Devouring Shadow is not so easy to cure. The medicinal materials required are so rare that there are few people in this world who have even heard of them. I have been searching for my son for more than ten years without any news. It was Ah Jin who found them for me one by one."
"Mother, it's safe to say that without A-Jin, your son would have only lived to be twenty-five at the latest! Do you think I would give up a girl like that? Could I possibly give her up? Is there anyone in this world more suitable to be my queen than her?!"
Empress Dowager Jiang was so shocked by the successive news that she was speechless.
Ignoring her reaction, Xiao Yanchu continued, "When you came to Yunqi Courtyard that day, Hu Qing stopped you because A Jin was treating me and couldn't be distracted."
"I don't know what you heard, Mother, but it was definitely not some lewd sound; it was the sound of your son struggling painfully on the verge of death!"
"Why didn't you let me know? Why didn't you let me know... why..." Consort Jiang stumbled and fell into a chair, muttering to herself.
"Because I was afraid you would worry, even Ah Jin couldn't guarantee a 100% success rate in curing the Soul-Devouring Shadow Poison."
Only then did Consort Jiang realize how terribly wrong she had been.
It turns out that Miss Su looked exhausted at that time because she had used up all her strength to detoxify Chu'er, but she thought so badly of her.
"Although the poison of the Soul-Devouring Shadow has been transmitted to the fetus in her womb, there will still be residue in the mother's body, which is why the mother's body has not been able to fully recover."
"Also, at yesterday's banquet, a man in black slashed at Mother with a knife. It was Ah Jin who rushed over and took the blow for Mother, so that Mother was safe and sound, but she herself was stabbed in the back."
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