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With Gu Danyan's dull personality, he was a good match for Duan Chenxuan.

After a moment, Su Yuwan walked over and sat down on the left side of Duan Chengxuan. Her left hand should have been the master's seat, but unfortunately, Gu Danyan's heart was completely focused on reading the Book of Virtue.

He was born into the imperial family, so even though he was obedient to Su Yu Wan, he couldn't easily change the imperial family's rules. If the Emperor saw Su Yu Wan acting like this, then just the title of disregarding the imperial family would be enough for her to go to the Sky Prison.

He grabbed the medical book from Gu Daiyan's hands, causing her to jump in fright. She turned her head to look at him, stretched out her hand to grab the book, and Duan Chengxuan only put the book further away.

"Hurry up and give me back the book. This is Teacher He's favorite book. If it gets dirty, you'll have to scold me." Gu Ming Yan half-propped up the table to snatch the book, then arranged it like a treasure.

"Change seats with Wan-Er." Duan Chengxuan helped Su Yu Wan up with a gentle gaze.

Su Yu Wan secretly gritted her teeth. She originally wanted to sit here and reveal her position, but she didn't expect that Duan Chengxuan was still working for the Emperor.

The two changed seats, but Gu Danyan didn't dare to take out the ancient medical book. He poured himself a cup of water and drank it. His fingertips were still trembling, so he put a pill into the wine and drank it.

"Big Brother Xuan, it's almost noon. Why hasn't the emperor come yet?" Su Yuwan took a sip of the cold soup. Even though it was in the middle of the day, it was still a bit hot in the spring.

"Lady Wan-Er's words are timely." In the distance, a line of people had already walked in, and the emperor was sitting on top of the carriage. From afar, he looked well-built, but his age was much older, and the line of princes had all gathered around the emperor to pay their respects.

Duan Cheng Xuan stood up and brought the two of them to pay her respects.

The Emperor raised his eyes to look at them and saw Su Yu Wan, who was beside Duan Chengxuan. He frowned but didn't say anything and only waved his hand. "Rise. The little ones should let go of today's hunt."

The Emperor had an amiable expression, but Gu Daiyan couldn't help but take a few more glances at him. He saw that the Emperor had a sickly expression, but when he looked closely, he looked rather similar to Duan Cheng Xuan. The emperor had obviously seen her and brought Empress Xu over to the head of the table. He waited for the eunuchs to complete their etiquette.

Since Duan Chengxuan wasn't going to hunt with his injured body, Gu Liuyan naturally didn't have to face Su Yu Wan. She only ordered the people beside her to bring in more food, and Qing Dai, who had rushed over, couldn't help but remind her, "Princess, we still have to roast some prey later, don't eat too much."

"No problem." Gu Daiyan blinked at her, but when she came up with the food, she realized that there was one less bag on her waist.

She felt around, wondering if she had dropped it while riding in the woods.

"Yin Gou, go to the stables and ask them to find my medicine bag. Qing Dai, I gave the wooden box to a young master. Take another box from the carriage and give it to Commander Xiao." Gu Daiyan instructed softly.

Su Yu Wan listened attentively. The embroidery at her side looked at her from afar and bent down to point out a direction.

On the other side, the Assistant Minister of Revenue and his son, Guangxian, were sitting there. Guangxian's eyes were fixed on Gu Danyan, while Su Yu Wan only raised the corner of her mouth, thinking about the people who came to report yesterday and the conflict between Gu Danyan and Guangxian in the restaurant, she shot a look at the brocade, nodded her head, and quickly left.

In a short moment, the three girls beside him had all left. Gu Danyan was eating her pastries as she watched those people riding away. She wanted to ride on her horse and gallop away. How comfortable that would be.

An eunuch walked to his side at an unknown time. "This servant pays his respects to Crown Prince Jing and his consort."

Duan Chengxuan waved his hand. This eunuch then walked to Gu Daiyan's side and passed a piece of paper to her. "Crown Princess Jing, this is the one that the Empress has ordered this servant to bring over. She said that you will understand once you see it."

"Alright." Gu Mingyan took the paper and frowned. "I'll have to trouble eunuch to tell esteemed empress that this will be difficult to resolve. That descendant of the Yun clan is just a fake name, but I haven't found such a good formula."

"Crown Princess Jing is too modest. This servant will return to report to the Empress now." The eunuch looked disappointed.

Gu Danyan rolled his eyes, but still called the eunuch over and continued, "Eunuch, please help me with a message. This matter is not possible now, but it is possible in the future. Empress, please calm down."

"With Princess Consort Jing's words, I'm sure the empress will feel a lot more at ease." The eunuch was immediately beaming with joy as he hurried back to report.

As soon as her father-in-law left, the empress on the seat of honor gave her a slight nod.

Gu Danyan responded with a chuckle, and then passed the list to Duan Chengxuan under the table.

Duan Cheng Xuan flipped through the note and returned it to Gu Xuan Yan's palm, then she coldly looked at her.

"Prince, don't look at me like that. I just want to add some chips for myself, I'm not really prepared to help the empress." Gu Liuyan crumpled the paper into a ball and put it into his sleeve with a smile.

What the empress wanted was a secret formula to prolong the Yun Family's lifespan and protect it from all sorts of diseases.

Even though Gu Danyan had already found out about the secret recipe from his grandfather, it was also the trump card. Naturally, he had to hide it well now, and even Duan Chengxuan didn't know about the medicinal ingredient on the Hundred Herb Cliff.

Furthermore, she gave this piece of paper to Duan Chengxuan to convince him. In the end, she told him to pass along the words to make the empress believe that she was still useful to him, so the empress would definitely become her backing for the sake of the medicinal formula.

"Before this, Empress Xu Shi completely approved of the idea of marrying this duke." Duan Chengxuan looked at her coldly.

"Of course. Lady Wan'er has no power or influence, so after marrying you, she has lost a lot of connections. She naturally can push her own son to the top." "But now, the direction of the wind has changed. Your highness, please consider it for yourself." Gu Danyan also returned the same way.

Now, as long as she had the secret formula in her hands, no one in power would dare to touch her.

However, if she could one day cure Su Yuwan of her illness and retreat from the Royal Mansion in one piece, she would still need to diligently learn medical skills. The reason she was staying by Duan Chengxuan's side was only for these convenience.

"You're quite open-minded."

"Of course. Besides, if I comfort the empress like this, the empress will surely mention me to the emperor. That way, Miss Wan-Er will be in much less danger." Gu Danyan raised her eyebrows at Duan Chengxuan. Su Yu Wan tightly gripped the corner of her clothes and did not say a word.

Duan Cheng Xuan felt that these words made sense. However, how did Gu Xuan see that the Emperor was extremely dissatisfied with Su Yu Wan?

Gu Liuyan seemed to have already known why he was asking this. She said in a low voice, "Qi Lin is the Heavenly Flame One Tyrant. He told me that the Emperor had sent someone to assassinate Lady Wan'er the night before you took her back from the sect."