Gan Qiongying held Lihua and cried for a long time before she finally calmed down her chaotic emotions.
She leaned against Li Hua's chest, trying her best to distinguish herself from Duan Rong. She was Duan Rong, yet she wasn't.
She possesses Duanrong's body and loves the family that Duanrong loves, but she and Lihua are by no means irreconcilable enemies.
Regardless, the hatred between Princess Duanrong and Lihua was a matter from their past lives. When Duanrong learned that Lihua was from Jinchuan, she cruelly attacked him. Lihua also killed all his close friends and family because of Duanrong. After returning from his revenge, he showed no mercy to Duanrong.
However, neither of them is wrong, regardless of whose perspective they take.
In life, there are too many things that are beyond our control and for which we have no other choice.
Gan Qiongying hugged Li Hua tightly around the waist. She was absolutely unwilling to miss out on the love of her life because of such a twist of fate.
You meet someone, you fall in love with him, and he happens to love you too. The probability of this happening is so low that Gan Qiongying only met one such person in two lifetimes. How could she let go?
Moreover, she believed in seeing is believing, no matter what. Through Duanrong's eyes, she saw Li Hua from her previous life return, shrouded in hatred and bloodlust, mercilessly slaughtering everyone and manipulating all.
In this life, will she not use her eyes to see just how gentle and reliable Li Hua truly is?
Gan Qiongying held Li Hua's face in her hands, looking at him with a mixture of tears and laughter. Li Hua couldn't help but shed tears as well. But just then, a maid brought in a physician to examine Gan Qiongying's body, so Li Hua quickly held back his tears, wiped his face, and pretended nothing had happened.
He could still be somewhat himself in front of Gan Qiongying, but Li Hua would never reveal his emotions in front of his servants.
Looking at him like this, Gan Qiongying became even more certain that such a soft-hearted person could never be the male protagonist who slaughtered everyone in the story.
Gan Qiongying was examined from head to toe by the doctor. Although she had slept for several days and only drank some ginseng soup, her physical condition was still normal.
Li Hua repeatedly inquired about the follow-up care, and the physician repeatedly assured him. Only then did Li Hua finally let go of the physician and Bu Li, who had remained silent throughout. Bu Li had been summoned from the foot of the mountain and had refused to leave for several days.
It was two days later when Li Hua finally agreed to send Bu Li back.
Gan Qiongying resumed her diet, and her thin face visibly regained its fullness. Those three days were mainly due to dehydration, and Li Hua took exceptionally good care of her, so Gan Qiongying was naturally fine.
Moreover, everything she planned was proceeding in an orderly manner. The Regent's spirit had completely collapsed. Gan Qiongying was a little puzzled. She still vividly remembered how the Regent had refused to accept his fate before. How come he looked like a wilted eggplant after only three days of being in a coma?
The servants only knew that the prince consort had met the regent a few times, but they didn't know what the prince consort had said to the regent after they met.
Anyway, Sima Rui didn't have any major injuries on the surface, but his spirit collapsed. When Gan Qiongying saw him again, he was a little slow to react at first.
When he saw that the person who came was Gan Qiongying, he kept laughing, extremely sarcastic, and even a little pitying.
He said to Gan Qiongying, "You misjudged people. I'm in this state today, and you won't have a good end either. Just you wait and see..."
Sima Rui looked as if someone had suddenly grabbed him by the neck, his lips trembling as he looked behind Gan Qiongying.
Following Sima Rui's gaze, Gan Qiongying looked behind her and saw Li Hua, with gentle features, walk in through the door. He gave Gan Qiongying a sweet smile and said gently, "Dinner is ready. I brought you roast duck from Phoenix Tower. Come and eat, or the skin won't be crispy when it gets cold."
Gan Qiongying didn't believe a word the Regent said and quickly followed Li Hua. As Li Hua turned to close the door, he gave the Regent a warning look in his eyes.
That one glance was enough to terrify Sima Rui, who dared not utter another word to Gan Qiongying.
In fact, Li Hua didn't use any particularly clever methods. He simply grasped the Regent's psychology, understanding what the Regent feared most and what he wanted most.
Li Hua told him that one of his concubines was pregnant. This concubine was someone the Regent had actually slept with. As for how difficult the process was and how many drugs he had taken, that was naturally not for outsiders to know.
Anyway, Li Hua used that concubine as leverage to torment the regent so much that he couldn't eat or sleep.
When the regent had a renewed hope that he would have an heir, Li Hua told Sima Rui that his concubine was having an affair with one of his guards.
Sima Rui has been left guessing whose child it is.
Sima Rui has been tormented by this matter these past few days, unable to definitively conclude that the concubine's child is not his, nor can he truly believe that the concubine's child is his.
He was so conflicted that Li Hua used this opportunity to help the Regent analyze whether the child was his every time he came.
He's taken so many medications, I wonder if he'll ever be able to have children again.
The regent appeared unharmed, but he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. He valued his offspring immensely, much like a eunuch values whether his manhood can accompany him to the grave. The more useless someone was, the more he wanted to prove himself.
The time when Sima Rui wanted to commit suicide was when Li Hua told him that the child was not his.
Just as the Regent was about to commit suicide, Li Hua changed the subject and said, "I caught that guard. In fact, according to that guard, there is a high probability that the child is yours."
The regent was tormented to the point of near death by him. Even if Li Hua used the Empress Dowager as leverage, the regent would not have done this.
But the child is the heir, something the regent had sought for so many years, something he finally obtained, only to watch helplessly as others held it in their hands and played with it repeatedly.
The torment involved is difficult for outsiders to understand and comprehend.
Even if someone explained it to Gan Qiongying, she would still find it hard to understand. As a modern person, she naturally couldn't comprehend why a man in a feudal society could value offspring to the point of surpassing his own life.
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