"Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine." Qu Qingxi hugged He Liufeng tightly. Although he was disguised, it didn't stop her from seeing the vicissitudes and dejection on his face.
He must have been extremely anxious during that day and night.
"It's good that you're alright." Hearing Qu Qingxi say that she was alright, He Liufeng finally felt relieved. He lowered his head and kissed the top of Qu Qingxi's head.
Cang Yuan, who arrived a step too late, looked at the scene before him with disappointment in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. However, he also understood in his heart that this matter was over, and he no longer had the chance to leave this place with Qu Qingxi.
Cangzhu and Xiaohe arrived late, followed closely by Qingdai and Lingmu.
Seeing that Qu Qingxi was alright, Qingdai breathed a huge sigh of relief. She had been anxious and guilty all day, but finally she found the princess.
Because there were other people around, the two quickly separated. However, He Liufeng stood next to Qu Qingxi, holding her hand tightly and refusing to let go, as if Qu Qingxi would disappear from his sight the moment he let go.
"Cang Yuan, you lost." Holding Qu Qingxi's hand, He Liufeng stared at Cang Yuan, a smug look flashing in his eyes.
As a fellow man, he clearly saw the fleeting hurt in Cang Yuan's eyes just now. During their fight, he already understood that Cang Yuan actually liked Qu Qingxi, but he always felt that there were other things mixed in with this liking, so it couldn't be considered pure liking.
"Hmph." Cang Yuan glanced at He Liufeng, then turned to look at Qu Qingxi beside him.
"Miss Qu, do you really not know how to cure that Golden Silkworm Gu?" The more Cang Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong with Gu Liangsheng's matter back then.
Qu Qingxi and He Liufeng clearly cared about Gu Liangsheng. They expressed their concern but couldn't think of any solutions. They even asked Die Feng if there was any way to cure him.
However, they hardly sent anyone out to find a solution to the Golden Silkworm Gu. When Cangyuan saw everything in the palace, he just assumed they couldn't come up with a solution.
However, when he saw Qu Qingxi standing there watching him fight He Liufeng, her eyes clearly showed a sense of certainty, as if she knew He Liufeng would come looking for her, as if she knew he would lose.
It was at that moment, seeing Qu Qingxi's relaxed and carefree demeanor, that he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have been deceived before.
How could He Liufeng, a man of such high sentiments, have failed to find a solution to the Golden Silkworm Gu and then simply let Gu Liangsheng leave?
Moreover, no one was sent to protect or take care of Gu Liangsheng, unless the Gu worms in Gu Liangsheng's body had been removed.
"I will." Qu Qingxi's lips curled up. "I have indeed removed the Gu worms from Gu Liangsheng's body." Qu Qingxi readily admitted that at this moment, Cang Yuan just wanted an answer.
Upon hearing Qu Qingxi's words, everyone present looked at her in shock. He Liufeng, however, showed no unusual reaction, clearly having known about this all along.
"Your Highness? Doctor Gu..." Qingdai stared wide-eyed at Qu Qingxi. Wasn't it said that Your Highness had no way to help? Moreover, Gu Liangsheng looked so pained those days. Was it all an act?
Qu Qingxi glanced at Qingdai and slowly said, "The Golden Silkworm Gu in Gu Liangsheng's body has indeed been cured. On the night he was infected, my courtyard was brightly lit. You thought that the prince and I were looking up solutions in books, but that night, Gu Liangsheng was secretly brought to my courtyard and I cured him."
"Then why did you say you couldn't undo the curse?" Cang Yuan looked at Qu Qingxi in confusion. Judging from Qing Dai and Ling Mu's reactions, they were clearly unaware of this matter.
“Because I’m worried that after I say I can cure the Golden Silkworm Gu, you will continue to use Gu on the people in the Prince’s Mansion.” Qu Qingxi also stared intently at Cang Yuan.
"I continued to use Gu poison on the people in the Prince's mansion? You mean, you knew a long time ago that I was the one who used the Golden Silkworm Gu on Gu Liangsheng?" Cang Yuan's eyes widened instantly, clearly in disbelief.
"Let me put it this way, when we first met, I would have thought it was a coincidence, but from the moment you fainted in front of my carriage, I guessed that you must have had ulterior motives."
I sent people to investigate, and they found nothing. There was nothing wrong with your background, and there were no flaws in what you said. However, the more perfect and flawless something is, the more it indicates that there is something wrong with it.
When you were poisoned by the Dream-Eating Gu for the second time, I knew there was something wrong with you. On the afternoon you were poisoned, I sent people to investigate, and it was indeed as you said, that no one was in your room that day.
This is very strange. No strangers appeared, but you were still poisoned by the Gu. You originally thought that if you said that, we would suspect Zhou Wenli because Zhou Wenli brought a Gu master. At that time, he did not have time, so we would naturally think that Zhou Wenli might have brought more than one Gu master, and that the other Gu master was even more powerful.
You deliberately left a tiny mark at the foot of the west wall of your yard to make people think that a master had broken into your yard, but neither you nor Cangzhu noticed.
If our people hadn't gone to check a second time, we wouldn't have discovered it at all, and you naturally assumed that our people would have gone a second time.
But then, I discovered that the traces there were left by the little maidservant beside you. You had never let her show herself before, just to make us suspect that someone else had cast the spell on you.
Since then, I've suspected that you inflicted the Dream-Eating Gu on yourself. Considering your previous probing questions—asking me about the types of Gu you've seen and testing my medical skills—I know that you were deliberately testing my ability to remove Gu.
When Gu Liangsheng was poisoned with the Golden Silkworm Gu, He Liufeng and I were already certain that you were the one who administered it.
So, I deliberately said that I only knew how to cure the Dream-Eating Gu, hoping that you would die. I didn't want anyone else in the Prince's Mansion to be implicated because of this.
Of course, in hindsight, we acted very successfully.
"I see." Cang Yuan suddenly realized. He hadn't expected that Qu Qingxi had never believed him from the very beginning.
"When did you take the antidote for the muscle-relaxing powder that I personally gave you?" Once a breakthrough is found, the rest can be understood with careful thought.
Cang Yuan could almost imagine that at the beginning, Qu Qingxi was indeed still under the influence of the muscle-softening powder, and Qu Qingxi was almost always in his sight, except last night when she went to relieve herself, when Xiao He was monitoring her.
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