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Emperor Duan Cong was the Seventh Prince of that year. It was all thanks to the empress dowager's ruthlessness and his own ruthlessness that she was able to climb to her current position.

After all, there were only four brothers left over from that year, and the other three had all been disgraced for countless reasons. Moreover, one of them had been demoted to a concubine early on, and if it wasn't for the magistrate's annual notification, it was likely that he wouldn't even know that he was still alive.

At this moment, Duan Cong was sitting on the pleasure boat with her with a smile on her face.

The pleasure boat docked but did not swim in the lake. The eunuch beside Duan Cong made her sit on the soft couch.

"I wonder why the Emperor called me here?" Gu Daiyan coughed a few times and took the soup from the eunuch's hand. The other imperial physician knelt beside her soft couch.

"You have some connections with my princes, do you know the eighth prince?" Duan Ku took the glass by his hand.

With this sentence, Gu Danyan understood what Duan Cong meant and said helplessly: "I don't have any relationship with the eighth prince. If the emperor suspects that the eighth prince is causing the spread of the plague, then we can send someone to investigate."

"Since that's the case, do you know that the fourth prince was poisoned by a parasite?"

"Gu poison? When did this happen!? " Gu Liuyan sat up abruptly. The imperial physician beside her quickly grabbed her wrist to prevent her from falling off the bed.

People wouldn't lie when they are surprised and worried. Duan Cong intentionally brought up the topic at the end in hopes that the incident from before would weaken Gu Danyan's defenses. But now, it seemed like Gu Danyan really didn't know what was going on.

However, after Gu Mingyan was surprised, she already had a guess in her heart.

If it wasn't for the poison that Litchi Bay had given to the Fourth Prince, only Litchi Bay's mysterious master would be left.

But now, in front of the Emperor, it had become a question whether he should say it or not.

"Could the Emperor take me to the fourth prince's estate? I'll do my best to cure the fourth prince's poison." Gu Liuyan thought about it and decided it would be better if he went to check it out himself.

However, when he looked at Gu Liuyan now, his heart still felt uneasy: "No need, I will send someone over. On the contrary, as the Crown Prince's wife, if you don't take good care of yourself, it won't be good for Yu Chenxuan and the Yun clan."

"But if the poison in the fourth prince's body …"

"I have my ways. As long as you behave, don't let the Yun clan cause any more trouble." Duan Cong interrupted Gu Qing Yan and looked towards her father-in-law.

The eunuch whispered to his men to send Gu Pingyan back unharmed. There was nothing else to do.

Since the emperor mentioned the eighth prince's matter, he also wanted to probe out the situation. Since he knew that she was helping the Jing King, perhaps the matter of the Sunset Water Stronghold helping out with the plan had reached the ears of the emperor, making him afraid of the future of this sinful subject's daughter.

Furthermore, the Emperor feared that there might be an intelligent person who would work for Prince Jing.

When he returned to Phoenix Cry Garden, he sent the girls out to see the situation of the plague while he pulled Phantom Demon over to the side of the bed and looked at him. "I only noticed today that the Emperor doesn't seem to be that good to Duan Chengxuan."

As she spoke, she recounted everything that had happened today.

Phantom Shadow also understood Gu Pingyan's meaning: "You mean, the Emperor is afraid that someone as smart as you will serve by his side. Furthermore, the Emperor is beginning to suspect that Prince Jing used some tricks in the fight."

"Of course. Now that I think about it carefully, the most terrifying thing about the Emperor is that he protected almost all of the princes by himself, right?" The princesses normally never show their faces unless it's a ceremony held in the palace. To him, it seems like the most important thing is to have his son. " Gu Liuyan finally reacted.

According to theory, regardless of which dynasty it was from, countless princes would die, leaving only a few people.

In this place, almost all of the princes, from the large to small, who had died due to lack of vitality, or even the princes and princesses who had died due to their mothers, had stayed behind. There were still eleven princesses in the palace, but they were not well-known and were in the hands of Duan Cong.

Moreover, before the Sixth Prince had become the enemy of the country, the Emperor had also allowed him to conceal his identity, and now that the Sixth Prince had died in battle, there was some suspicion that the eighth prince was usually smart, but now, it turned out to be a huge mistake. Moreover, the fourth prince had also been infected with the insect poison. With a clap of his hands, the ghost finally understood the secret of this technique.

Gu Liuyan nodded seriously: "So the person he suspects now is still Duan Chengxuan. After all, it's not easy for the Sixth Prince to be kicked out of the battlefield, and the King Jing previously had sole authority over the army."

"In addition, the fourth prince is so close to Prince Jing that he's easy to deal with." Phantom also nodded seriously.

The two of them stared at each other in silence for a long time, both of them feeling that the Sacred Heart was unfathomable.

"Not only that, the Emperor didn't ask me to go over this time to warn me at all, and he did it to trick me when I was sick. It's a pity that I kept all of this a secret, so I don't know whether it was actually Duan Chengxuan who did it or not." As he said this, Gu Danyan rubbed his forehead with a headache.

Phantom also stretched out his hand to rub her head. "If the emperor really cares about kinship and affection, if he knows what His Highness has done to the Sixth Prince …"

"It's still my fault." Gu Liuyan heaved a heavy sigh. If it wasn't for the Sixth Prince's sincerity towards him, Duan Chengxuan might not have made things so bad.

After a while, he said, "This is not your fault. A few years ago, when the Sixth Prince showed off his strength, His Highness had already decided on everything. When the Eighth Prince was eleven years old, His Highness had already come up with a plan to deal with him."

"What …" Gu Liuyan raised his head in disbelief.

"If not for the wedding ceremony, the eighth prince would have died a long time ago. The prince's plan was to frame the eighth prince and win over the officials, embezzling taxes and taxes, everything would have been settled by now. However, he had no choice but to stop when he obtained the Yun Family's medicinal formula in order to protect Gu Cheng, who had wanted to frame him." The ghost helplessly smiled. "At the beginning, I still thought that Your Highness was right. As long as Your Highness takes the throne, everything can be sacrificed."

Seeing the loneliness in Phantom Demon's eyes, Gu Pingyan could only stretch his body and pat his shoulder, "It's good that you know it now. Besides, I don't feel guilty anymore. All this was chosen by Duan Chengxuan himself. We can do it ourselves."

Phantom rubbed his eyes and nodded like a child.

When both of them had calmed down, Gu Daiyan then instructed the ghost lightly, "If you have a way, you can go to the fourth prince and get the medicine and blood tonight. I still don't feel at ease."