Father...
Before tonight, Chu Qianli never dreamed that the father she had been searching for was actually Chu Jiangnan.
The Emperor of Nanming!
When she saw Chu Nan’s face clearly in the ice pool, she almost collapsed.
Chu Qianli finally understood that blood ties truly caused the heart to tremble.
That night, when Feng Yexuan used her and made her sleep in the dragon bed under everyone's gaze, she had despaired to the point of wanting to die.
It turned out that there was already a predestined recognition in her blood.
As the daughter of the Emperor of Nanming, a princess of Nanming, she had actually slept in the Emperor's dragon bed.
Royal scandals, regardless of truth or falsehood, were treated as true once they spread.
Her path to recognize her kin had been completely severed by that scoundrel Feng Yexuan!
Walking to the bedside and looking at the peerlessly beautiful but pale man on the bed, Chu Qianli’s long-held tears finally couldn't help but roll down.
"Xiao Li'er..." Chu Wang's heart stirred, not understanding why she suddenly shed tears.
Weren't she and the Imperial Brother fake?
The man in the Imperial Brother's dragon bed that night was clearly Xiao Xuanzi, he knew this!
However, the way Xiao Li'er looked at the Imperial Brother held no trace of admiration, but rather... filial affection.
If people didn't know, they would think that the one lying sick in bed was her own father.
Chu Qianli closed her eyes, raised her hand, and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"I am merely lamenting that a wise ruler has been harmed to this extent by those treacherous and villainous people."
When she opened her eyes again, there were no longer any emotions on Chu Qianli's face.
She reached out, her long fingers landing on Chu Jiangnan's wrist.
The pulse was very chaotic; the balance of the two previous poisons had been broken.
"What did His Majesty eat and use tonight?" she asked.
"Miss, everything His Majesty ate and drank tonight was personally prepared by this servant. This servant dares to stake his life on it, there will be absolutely no problem."
Xiao Shunzi knelt by the side, his face full of worry but without any trace of guilt.
"I just want to see if there's any conflict between certain substances."
"The medicinal meals were all prepared according to the list I wrote," Liu Jin said softly.
Chu Qianli nodded.
Since the list was written by Liu Jin, there would definitely be no problem with what His Majesty ate or drank.
"Where did the third poison on His Majesty's body come from? Who else has had contact with His Majesty?"
"The third poison?" Liu Jin and the others were suddenly startled.
Liu Jin's face turned ashen: "I... I didn't notice..."
"It's because it's very similar to the second poison's toxicity, making it easy to mix together and difficult to distinguish."
But having dealt with poisons for years, she could feel from the pulse that the toxin was not simple.
"...I'll try to separate it."
...Daybreak arrived.
The Emperor's sleeping quarters remained as quiet as usual.
From the outside, one could not tell that there were so many people around the Emperor.
Chu Qianli's experiment took nearly an hour. The third toxin she separated was Light Smoke Datura.
"But this... it doesn't look like the toxicity of Datura."
Liu Jin now understood how to separate toxins; it turned out to be such a simple and easy matter.
A few pieces of paper, some slender syringes, and some medicinal liquids.
However, these ready-made tools were all taken out by Chu Qianli.
It seemed easy, but without these tools, it would have been impossible.
"Light Smoke Datura is different from Datura. It has undergone refinement and smoking, and finally, when mixed with the taste of Schisandra chinensis, it becomes a floral scent."
Yang Xun, who was guarding the outer room, had a thought flash through his mind: "Floral scent?"