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The Queen raised her eyebrows and looked over. Gu Danyan was thin, and her face was covered with some rouge to hide her fatigue.

Gu Mingyan saluted before sitting by Duan Chengxuan's side. Once she sat down, he sighed in a nearly inaudible manner. Duan Cheng Xuan noticed that her breathing was unstable and there was a thin layer of sweat on the back of her neck.

"Then Princess Jing should rest well." The empress chuckled and the two palace maids behind her brought in two boxes of items. Then, they looked at Gu Daiyan, "On the day of your wedding, neither I nor the emperor have come to bless you. It has been a while since I last saw the prince bringing along his wife to the palace. Only then did I make a trip over here with some gifts."

"Thank you for your concern, my royal sister-in-law." Duan Chengxuan stood up.

Lady Xu immediately waved her hands, revealing a kind expression, and continued, "Prince, no need to be so polite. It's just that the Emperor told me to ask a few more questions, and that ever since you got married, you haven't been able to come to court. Do you need the emperor to send doctors for your highness? "

The reason why they had stayed in court ever since the wedding was because of Su Yuwan's body and the blood in Gu Danyan's heart. Then, because the rumors spread that they had made a great contribution, they decided to make the mistake and stay in the mansion for a long time without going to court.

"To tell you the truth, due to my many years of war on the battlefield, I have a hidden illness. The doctor told me to take good care of my body and recuperate. In addition, there were seasonal changes a few days ago." Duan Chengxuan smiled helplessly.

The empress had nothing to say to this, so she hastily spoke a few sentences before shifting her gaze to Gu Danyan, "Princess Jing is the direct daughter of the prime minister and the descendant of the Yun clan. Prince, please do not neglect her."

"Of course." Duan Chengxuan stood up as well.

Gu Danyan stood up. He thought to himself, "I actually forced her to come here because of those boring words. What bad luck!"

The empress had walked to her side at some point and patted her hand gently, "Yan'Er, you and I have not met for a long time. Why don't you bring me around the prince's mansion?"

Gu Danyan didn't remember that he had met the Queen, but he could only accept it.

It was a pity that she didn't know anything about the prince's mansion. Instead, Duan Chengxuan had long since realized what was going on and asked the maidservant to bring the two of them to take a walk around the manor before instructing the maidservant, "Take care of Princess Hua-Yang."

"Yes, Your Highness." This maidservant was also very shrewd. Even though Gu Danyan had never seen her before, she knew clearly about Gu Danyan's and the empress's preferences, and even brought them to the back garden at a leisurely pace.

The Queen let out a long sigh, her steps easing up as she turned her head to look at her, "Yan'Er, I didn't think that the Prince would be so concerned about you. It's your fortune."

"Esteemed Empress …"

"Now, with the two of us adding on a servant girl, you should still call me Sister Xu." Lady Xu was smiling happily, but Gu Mingyan's mind was blank.

Why was the face of the Xu absent from the original owner's memory?

She revealed a puzzled expression as Lady Xu lightly patted her hands, "If it weren't for your father's help, I wouldn't be able to sit in the empress's seat now. If Yan'Er has any problems in the future, she could come to find Sister Xu anytime."

The empress was concerned about the life between her and Duan Chengxuan, but she had skillfully rounded over it. After taking a few steps, the dizziness caused by the poison made her feel weak, so she could only helplessly say, "Elder sister Xu, Yan'er is not feeling well …"

"Then you should go back and rest as soon as possible. It's just that you need to hurry and take care of your body. Don't let the concubines in the Prince's Mansion climb up." Before Lady Xu left, she lightly left these words by her ear before leaving with the palace maids.

Gu Mingyan originally wanted to leave early and go back to rest, but Duan Chengxuan rejected her suggestion. "The empress came here to test us out. If you return to your crappy courtyard at night, the empress will know that we're not on good terms."

"It's normal for couples to not be on good terms with each other. So what if they know about it?" Gu Liuyan swallowed another pill, half supporting himself on the armrest of the chair, half rubbing his forehead to ease the pain.

"Everyone in the royal family knows that the Emperor has the most respect for the descendants of the Yun family. If they knew that you and I were at odds, they would think that Wan'er bullied you."

"In that case, it is for Lady Wan-Er's sake. Your highness is really infatuated with her." Gu Daiyan laughed and stood up, patting her body. She walked straight to Phoenix Cry Garden and prepared to sleep for the night.

As soon as she entered the room, she collapsed on the bed.

The poison in her body had yet to dissipate, so she was unable to think about so many things at the moment. She could only fall into a deep sleep and listen to the steady breathing coming from inside the room with her eyes closed before leaving Phoenix Cry Garden and arriving before Duan Chengxuan. "Princess, you've returned to your room and went to bed to rest. It looks like you've been poisoned."

"What about the empress?" Duan Cheng Xuan looked at the kneeling servant girl.

"The empress seemed to express her goodwill towards the wangfei and even told her to be careful of her concubines, but the wangfei didn't seem to care at all, and the palace's spies came to report. The emperor seems to have communicated with Lady Yun in the past few days, and Lady Xu once proposed to the emperor to annul the engagement between the prince and the wangfei. It's just that the emperor didn't agree." The maidservant also carefully spoke out.

Duan Chengxuan put down the book in his hand. He had only married Gu Mingyan for the sake of Wan'er's illness, but he hadn't expected that all sorts of powers would covet them.

The emperor, as his royal brother, had always believed in him, but the empress was afraid that he would steal the throne from her, so from the beginning to the end, she didn't agree that he should marry the descendant of the Yun family. Now that the dust had settled, the empress naturally wanted to rope in Gu Liuyan.

When he thought of this, he felt more and more displeased with Gu Mingyan: "Look after Gu Danyan, and don't let her interact with the empress too much. After Wan'er's illness is cured, although she won't be of any use, she still can't be won over by anyone else."

"Yes." Cheng Yi and the servant girls said in unison and left.

Gu Daiyan was awakened by the pain. She covered the mark on her collarbone and sat up from the bed. Her back was covered in cold sweat and her face was contorted in pain. She panicked and wanted to take out the pill, but found that it was empty.

It was all weird that he was urging her to hurry up! She had only brought with her a small jade bottle of pills, and had eaten more than half of it just by walking with the empress.

"Damn it." She cursed in a low voice. This place wasn't her small courtyard. If she wanted to concoct ingredients, then the only place would be Doctor Mu Qing's courtyard.

After hesitating for a while, the pain in her body finally overcame her suspicions towards Mu Qing. She got off the bed, changed into a set of clean clothes, and walked towards Mu Qing's courtyard.