Married To The Cruel Crown Prince

Ying Lili drank the water and handed the glass to the maidservant, who stepped back. Ying Lili rested her arm on the bolster and gazed at Wang Hao.

"Empress Dowager hasn't changed. She wanted to poison me. However, Brother Nianzu took the sweet in place of me," Ying Lili stated.

Wang Hao already knew about it, but he stayed quiet. He could not tell Ying Lili that Deng Hui sent someone to kill the Emperor. It would stress her out. So, he remained calm and listened to her silently.

"Your Majesty, since we have no clear evidence against her, I cannot imprison her either. It seems Empress Dowager hired this servant to take blame on his head," Wang Hao replied.

"Yes. That's why General Wang has to bring out the truth from him. Don't let him die at any cost and search for his family. I am sure Empress Dowager has threatened him with his family," Ying Lili concluded. She should not have trusted Deng Hui. She could have gotten a miscarriage because of all this.

Wang Hao bowed and left the chamber.

"Why did Your Majesty not punish Empress Dowager? She tried to kill the Empress." Eunuch Xing-Fu was furious and at the same time, worried thinking what would the Emperor think. Behind him, the Empress always fell into the pit of danger.

"I had told Her Majesty not to believe Empress Dowager. She has gotten insane. Because the evidence deviated, Her Majesty cannot even punish her," Court Lady Xu stated.

"Forgive me, Court Lady Xu, for not listening to you," Ying Lili apologized.

"Please, Your Majesty, do not apologize to me," Court Lady Xu said humbly. "I pray that the Emperor returns soon." She joined her both hands and closed her eyes.

Ying Lili expected the same. She stood up and gradually walked to the desk. The maidservant pulled out the chair for her, and Ying Lili sat on it. She spread the sheet on the desk and then the brush. The ink was already prepared, so she dipped the brush in it and started to write a message for Sheng Li.

When it dried, she asked Eunuch Xing-Fu to give it to General Wang. He stepped forward and bowed before taking the letter from the Empress. After he left, Ying Lili looked at the butterfly which she had made on her left wrist.

'I miss you. Badly. Are you good? Return home soon. We all need you,' she thought.

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Nianzu after getting acupuncture treatment for the last time thanked the Royal Physician, who started to pack his things to leave.

"Royal Physician, would you tell me what kind of poison was it? It gave me a dull pain in the lower abdomen and then I ended up puking… blood," Nianzu briefed him.

"Your Highness, the poison wasn't life threatening. It was supposed to give displeasure to the person for a certain time. However, as I heard earlier, if the sweets were supposed to feed the Empress, then Her Majesty could have undergone a miscarriage and other serious complications," the Royal Physician explained to Nianzu.

Chuntao brought her palms in front of her mouth as it was shocking to learn that a servant despite being such a high security tried to harm the Empress and put blame on Empress Dowager.

"Your Highness, pardon me for intruding in the middle. I have brought the sweets that were prepared by Empress Dowager which My Lord had ordered to throw away," Eunuch Chung said, showing a bowl to him.

"Can the Royal Physician find out which poison was used in these sweets?" Nianzu, with high hopes, questioned him.

"I am afraid, but it's tough to tell the type of poison," the Royal Physician politely refused.

"His Highness shall take a good rest. By the morning, His Highness will recover fully," the Royal Physician informed him. He rose to his feet, bowed and left.

Chuntao caressed the arm of Nianzu and said, "the servant tried to frame Empress Dowager in this."

"Chun, my mother tried to kill Sister Lili. I should have asked Brother Sheng to not show any mercy on her." Nianzu was infuriated to see that his mother stooped so low that she didn't even stop him from eating that sweet.

"A mother can never let her son eat the poison. Sometimes what we see isn't right," Chuntao stated.

"But what I saw is the truth. My mother was not this way. She became evil after having the power. Now, I understand why she never wanted me to leave the Palace."

Because Deng Hui wanted her son to be the Emperor. That was the reason she bore everything that Weng Wei did to her. She told Nianzu not to react inappropriately in front of Weng Wei and like a foolish son, he acted on her words. The biggest foolishness that he did was not revealing her true face to everyone.

Now, he felt guilty. He remembered how he accused Jian Guozhi when he stayed quiet for years for not stopping his mother. However, he was much braver than him. At least, unlike Nianzu, Jian Guozhi decided to end the evil.

Nianzu had decided that he would ask Sheng Li to imprison his mother or whatever the toughest punishment he could grant to Deng Hui.

He had decided that he would not stay quiet anymore.

"A wicked person can never be trusted, because it is unknown when the person will attack. No matter how much you forgive a wicked person, it will only want bad for you," Nianzu pronounced. "My philosophy master taught me this on the very first day of the class. It's the time when I shall implement his lesson."

He had decided that he would not let his mother's evil plans to succeed.

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