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His Majesty walked towards a cabinet and slowly opened a drawer with trembling hands. He then took out a small box and handed it in her direction. "Ruo Ruo, this is for you. Also, you must remember where I gave you the things from the past.

She didn't know what the Emperor had given her in the past, but the Emperor took her hesitation in his eyes. "Why, you don't want my things?" As soon as his last words fell, the emperor once again began to cough darkly.

"Your majesty, quickly sit down and drink a cup of tea. You'll feel better if you moisten your throat, and you won't cough so much." She pulled the emperor to ask him to sit down, then hurriedly filled a cup of tea for the emperor.

"Ai, if Zhiruo is a sensible child, it's a pity that I …" With a sigh, the emperor took a sip of tea and pushed the items on the table towards Ruo Ruo. "This, you keep well."

"Your majesty, what's this?" Seeing that the emperor wanted her to accept this item, Ruo Ruo asked directly.

"Open it and you'll know. This thing is a death saving order. With it there, no one will dare to touch a single strand of your hair."

"Really?" Ruo Ruo's eyes lit up. This is a good thing.

"Yes, I only have this one brocade. I gift it to you, you have to protect it well …" Save... Keep... is..., it... Available... Can... On Off... Saved you in the nick of time... "Life …" With some difficulty, he finished speaking the last word. The emperor's body suddenly trembled, and then, his face turned ashen. With a tilt of his head, the emperor fainted on the tea table, no longer making a sound.

"Huang …" "Your Majesty …" Ruo Ruo became flustered. This is the current emperor of Xi Jin, not just some random cat or dog.

Ruo Ruo lightly pushed the emperor's shoulder, but the emperor didn't have any reaction. What should we do? "Your majesty …" If she continued to yell, she must wake the emperor up. Otherwise, there would only be her and the emperor in this room. At that time, she wouldn't be able to explain anything.

However, there was no response from the emperor. The order to avoid death that he had just taken out for a moment had already been thrown onto the table. Ruo Ruo carefully held the emperor's head, she wanted to see his expression, but when she looked over, she became terrified. It seemed to indicate that he had been poisoned.

How is this possible?

Although he was coughing previously, he had no other symptoms at all.

Tea.

He had only drunk tea before he was poisoned.

Ruo Ruo casually took out a silver hairpin from her hair. With a trembling heart, she placed the silver hairpin into the remaining tea for the Emperor to drink.

The silver hairpin turned black in an instant.

Ruoruo was greatly startled and panicked as she retreated. But just at this moment, a coquettish and tempting female voice came from outside the door. "Your majesty, it seems like Xi'an is coming. Are you alright?"

The voice followed her, and in the blink of an eye, Ruoxi entered the side hall. She didn't even have time to hide as she stared in the direction the empress had come from in terror. She didn't know what to do.

Everything in front of her was obviously a trap. A trap to lure her in, a trap to borrow a knife to kill two birds with one stone.

Kill the Emperor with her hands, then bring down the Emperor before framing her.

This plan was quite ingenious.

However, just like that, she had unknowingly walked into this trap. At this moment, there was no way for her to retreat.

"The Emperor …" After saying this word, the empress Yun Ruxi had already walked into the side chamber. She could already see Ruoxi, as well as the emperor who was lying on the table, spitting out white foam and bleeding from his seven orifices.

Yun Ruxi ran towards the emperor as if she was flying. "Your majesty, what's wrong? Tell me, what's the matter with you? " She shook the emperor's shoulders and exclaimed in a low voice, filled with boundless fear. It was as if she was frightened by the scene before her. Her pitiful eyes suddenly filled with tears.

"Empress Dowager, do we need to call for Imperial Physician Xuan?" A palace maid timely reminded Yun Ruoxi.

"Xuan, hurry, call all of the imperial physicians on duty here. If anyone is a step too slow, I won't forgive them." Ruoxi was shouting, giving others a feeling of chaos. However, Ruoxi, who was standing by the side, understood that she was just putting on a show.

Because it was impossible for the emperor to faint so soon. She came at such a precise timing! Even a fool would understand what was going on.

However, she couldn't be reasoned with. Even if she tried to refute now, no one would believe her.

The empress really didn't seem to like her, but she hadn't done anything to disappoint the empress, right? She really didn't understand why the empress wanted to put her to death.

Gently retreating, even though she knew that one of Ruoxi's goals was her, she still tried to quietly leave. However, just as she took a step towards the door, Ruoxi who had her back facing him said in a stern voice, "Block all the entrances and exits in this courtyard. Before the emperor finds out why he fainted, no one who has come into contact with the emperor is allowed to leave."

Ruo Ruo paused.

As expected, the empress, Yun Ruxi, had already set her sights on Ning Xuemo.

Soon enough, the palace maid Ruoxi brought with her began to search the entire room. After that, a deacon girl walked up to Ruxi and said, "To reply esteemed empress, in this room, aside from the emperor, this young lady is the only one."

"Who is it? Bring her to me. " When Ruoxi came in, she had clearly seen Ruoxi, but now she pretended not to see her as she spoke with a cold tone.

This was clearly an act.

However, the way she acted was very lifelike. Her teary eyes were filled with sorrow, as if her heart was already filled with extreme grief from what the emperor had done.

A palace maid rushed up to Ziruo and pushed her toward the queen.

Before he could even stand properly, a foot viciously kicked at Ruo Ruo's leg from behind him. "You bold servant, why aren't you kneeling down when you see the esteemed wangfei?"

Ruo Ruo's body leaned forward and she was forced to kneel down.

However, she was unwilling. One of her hands subconsciously grabbed the back of a carved wooden chair to support herself. Not only did she not kneel down, she stood firmly in front of Ruoxi, who had just turned around. Her fearless eyes stared at Ruoxi, filled with stubbornness.

If she knew that if Ruoxi intentionally wanted to harm her, then no matter how lowly she begged Ruoxi, Ruoxi wouldn't let her get away with it.

Therefore, she didn't ask for it.