Reborn to marry the regent and seize the throne as queen

Seeing Yan Xiuchen's resolute look, the old man took out a medicine bottle from his arms and threw it at him.

“Eat it right away.”

Yan Xiuchen looked at the medicine bottle but said nothing. He held the golden bronze fan in one hand and the medicine bottle in the other, and staggered onto the horse.

The old man looked at the disappearing figure and sighed to Bai Ge, "It turns out that only Gu Yanbai can cure the poison of the Heart-Eating Gu."

"Go check to see if what he said is true or false. If it is true, Gu Yanbai... don't kill him yet."

"Yes, sir, I'll have someone check it out right away."

The old man nodded, looked into the distance, and waved to Bai Ge with a somewhat uneasy look on his face, "Follow him and send him back safely."

"Yes, sir."

When Yan Xiuchen returned to the palace, it was already dark.

The night was hazy, with a breeze accompanied by a wisp of mist and rain, and a thick humidity shrouded everything.

Yan Xiuchen was wet, his face was pale, and he looked like a broken man. He walked into Beiyuan in a panic, holding a medicine bottle in one hand and a golden bronze fan in the other.

"Godfather...you're back."

Hearing Jiu Ye's shout, Jiang Qingwu suddenly stood up from his chair and walked towards the door.

"Yan Xiuchen, you're finally back. You trapped me here, you..."

Jiang Qingwu's scolding voice stopped abruptly the moment he saw Yan Xiuchen.

"What's wrong with you? You...you look so ugly, did you fight with someone? Are you injured?"

Jiang Qingwu asked repeatedly, and just as he reached Yan Xiuchen, he fell down.

Jiang Qingwu subconsciously tried to support him, but he couldn't bear his weight and they both fell down.

"Yan Xiuchen...Jiuye..."

“Godfather, godfather…” Jiu Ye shouted and ran out in a hurry, “Imperial Physician, go call the Imperial Physician…”

"Yan Xiuchen, don't scare me, what's wrong with you?"

Jiang Qingwu was so scared that she almost cried. She looked Yan Xiuchen up and down but couldn't find any injuries.

"My plan failed...Shen Wanrong was released by him!"

"but……"

Yan Xiuchen felt a tightness in his chest, not knowing whether it was because of that palm strike or the repeated failures and powerless resistance.

After hearing these words, Jiang Qingwu understood something. Looking at Yan Xiuchen's dim eyes and pale face, all she felt was heartache.

"But what?"

Yan Xiuchen was somewhat dazed, mumbling weakly, his voice becoming smaller and smaller.

"But I told him that the Heart-Eating Gu's poison can only be cured by Gu Yanbai... only Gu Yanbai can cure it."

"He should... not kill him again..."

Jiang Qingwu's heart tightened slightly, her eyes instantly turned red, and she gently hugged Yan Xiuchen.

Although she didn't know how deep the love between them was, she knew that Yan Xiuchen cared about Gu Yanbai very much.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have joked with his own life again and again.

When the imperial physician arrived, Jiang Qingwu and Jiu Ye had already sent the patient to the bed.

Yan Xiuchen was drowsy, as if he was asleep, but also as if he was not.

Jiang Qingwu took the medicine bottle from Yan Xiuchen's hand, looked at it carefully, and poured out small black pills from it.

"Your Highness has suffered internal injuries..."

"Imperial Physician, this medicine..." Jiang Qingwu murmured in a trance and walked towards the imperial physician with the medicine bottle.

The imperial physician looked at the pills, smelled them, crushed one, examined it for a long time, and hurried over to Yan Xiuchen.

"I poured a few pills and put them into Yan Xiuchen's mouth."

"Imperial Physician, can this medicine cure him?" Jiang Qingwu asked puzzledly.

The imperial physician nodded and handed the medicine bottle back to Jiang Qingwu.

"This is an extremely rare heart-protecting pill for treating internal injuries. You can't find it in ordinary pharmacies. It should be... in the palace. Even the palace may not have this medicine."

The imperial physician said, then came to his senses and said, "I will immediately boil the medicine for Your Highness..."

Seeing that the imperial physician was hesitant to speak, Jiang Qingwu did not say anything else and gestured to Jiuye, "I will go with the imperial physician to boil the medicine, you keep an eye on him."

It was not until they left Beiyuan that Jiang Qingwu looked behind him and made sure that no one was following him before he spoke to the imperial physician in a low voice.

"That medicine must be a precious elixir that is not passed on to outsiders in the palace."

The imperial physician hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly and said, "Yes, the recipe for the Heart Protection Pill had been lost when the late emperor was alive."

"The remaining medicine is gone. No one has seen it since your majesty ascended the throne."

Jiang Qingwu was thinking about something, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Then according to the imperial physician, who should have this medicine?"

"It's hard to say. In the past, this medicine was kept by the late emperor himself."

"Now, if Your Highness doesn't have it, I'm afraid no one else will have it."

Hearing this, Jiang Qingwu sighed helplessly.

It was kept by the late emperor, but the late emperor has passed away. He can't take the medicine into the imperial mausoleum.

……

The next day, when Jiang Qingwu woke up, it was already bright.

She was originally sitting beside the couch, but when she woke up she found that she was sleeping on Yan Xiuchen's bed.

But Yan Xiuchen had long disappeared.

"Yan Xiuchen..." Jiang Qingwu shouted and hurried out of the house, but found that there was no one around.

Not to mention the maids who served him, even the personal guards who usually patrolled the place were nowhere to be seen.

Just as Jiang Qingwu was preparing to leave Beiyuan with his cloak, he happened to meet Tan Xi who was walking towards him.

"Where is His Highness? Why is there no one in the yard?"

"Young lady, His Highness has gone out. He told her to have a good sleep and not to be disturbed."

"Go out? Where did he go?" Jiang Qingwu asked, but the answer suddenly came to his mind.

Six Shan Tang in Xicheng.

When Yan Xiuchen pushed open the door, Gu Yanbai was still sleeping in the room, lying in a grass nest, hugging a floral quilt.

The ropes on his hands had been untied, but his feet were still tied with chains.

Yan Xiuchen opened the lock of the chain and threw it on Gu Yanbai.

"Stop pretending and get up." Yan Xiuchen shouted sternly.

Gu Yanbai sighed secretly, stood up sleepily, leaned against the wall, and rubbed his ankle.

"Needless to say, that girl must have been discovered by you."

"It was you who asked her to go."

Gu Yanbai sneered and sighed helplessly, "It really wasn't me. I told her to let me go and I'll follow her."

"You will definitely find out about her lightness skills."

When Jiang Qingwu and Yan Xiuchen arrived at Liushan Hall one after the other, Jiu Ye was having breakfast with Qizi and the others.

They were talking and laughing, and didn't even notice Jiang Qingwu following them, and went straight to the backyard.

The backyard was even quieter, and it seemed that Yan Xiuchen had deliberately sent people away in order to talk.

As soon as he entered the yard, Jiang Qingwu heard the two people's chattering and couldn't help but slow down his pace.

And Yan Xiuchen inside seemed to be angry.

"You actually have the guts to involve her in this, do you want to die?"

Yan Xiuchen grabbed Gu Yanbai's collar fiercely and scolded him angrily.

However, Gu Yanbai looked fearless and let out bursts of sneering laughter.

"You've taught me this countless times for her."

"Do you care about her so much? I'm really curious, Yan Xiuchen."

"If one day, we are faced with a life or death decision, and only one of us can survive...who will you save?"