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  "Thanks to Father Emperor!"

  Nan Chengyao knelt down on one knee to thank him, while seemingly unintentionally casting a cold glance, the warning and chill in his eyes were self-evident.

  I took a deep breath and nodded along with him.

  Although the emperor did not explicitly mention amnesty, the relaxation in his tone was already very obvious. This matter will probably end like this without any further action being taken.

  And I have to kneel down and thank the person who is responsible for all of this.

  As I walked out of the Dingqian Palace, the bright sunlight was so dazzling that I could hardly open my eyes, and it also pulled out a long shadow of Nan Chengyao in front of me.

  I lowered my eyelashes and followed his shadow all the way out of the Zi Jing Palace.

  The curtains closed, and in the narrow space, there was only me and him left again.

  I took a deep breath and spoke up: "Your Highness, just as you said earlier, if it were treason, Yun wouldn't have returned to the capital with only two or three close attendants..."

  He interrupted me: "What's the big deal, as you just heard, Murong Zhi, as a military general, would be put to death for returning to the capital with his troops without permission from the emperor. What more can he do, since he never had a reason not to die?"

  "Isn't there any other way?" I asked.

  He looked at me with a hint of tenderness in his eyes and slowly said: "Qing'er, I don't care about too many things."

  "What about Yu'er then? She's just a concubine, and since everything has already been settled, keeping her won't make a difference. Your Highness, this is what you just said."

  I stared at him unblinkingly, I knew why he said that, and I also knew maybe I shouldn't, but I couldn't help it.

  "What I said does not represent what Her Majesty thinks," he continued to look at me quietly: "I can only guarantee that before the child is born, she will be fine."

  "What happened after the child was born?" I stared tightly into his eyes.

  "As the daughter of a guilty minister, without the title of crown princess to protect me, nor any achievements or popular support to rely on, I can only die once." His eyes were filled with complex emotions, and he reached out to grasp my hand: "Qing'er, I won't let anything happen to you, but as for others, I don't have the luxury of worrying about them too much."

  "Others?" I closed my eyes: "Perhaps to Your Highness, but to me, Lian and Ye, in this world, they are the only relatives I have."

  I raised my eyes and looked straight into his, asking word by word: "After returning from the north of the desert, did Your Highness deliberately let people know, even exaggerating, about all sorts of things regarding Murong Qing, was it just for today?"

  He grasped my hand and paused for a moment without saying anything.

  "Has Your Highness been planning for this day all along, then?" I continued to stare at him unblinkingly, and a hint of desolation and self-mockery suddenly appeared on my lips: "Your Highness destroyed my family with one hand, and now you're graciously allowing me to keep my life; should I be thanking Your Highness?"

  I pulled back my hand, he stiffened for a moment, but ultimately just slowly let go.

  Suddenly, in my heart, I couldn't help but think of the past, that period from my memory which had been erased.

  That year, he watched with his own eyes as I jumped off the cliff, ending all the entanglements of love and hate.

  Now he is trying his best to protect me, I'm not blind to it.

  But I don't know which one is truly cruel and which one is benevolent.

  At this moment, the carriage slowed down and stopped. The complex and melancholy emotions in my heart almost made me unbearable, but I still couldn't fall down.

  "Your Highness, Lord Fang, Lord Du and Lord Zhao have been waiting in the front hall for quite some time." Qin An stepped forward to speak as soon as our carriage stopped.

  I had no idea what was going on, and I walked into the palace alone. Perhaps it was at Nan Chengyao's behest, but Qin An escorted me all the way to the Guimeng Pavilion before leaving.

  I didn't say anything more at that moment, and my mind was in a mess. I told myself to calm down first, because only then could I figure out which way to go next.

  Under the current situation, I am very clear that if I take a wrong step, the price to be paid is not something I can afford.

  Returning to the Guimeng Pavilion, I didn't see Shuying after all. Hua Yi told me that she had just left the mansion as soon as we entered the palace.

  I figured she must have gone out to gather information because of her involvement with An Xiang, although I couldn't help but worry a bit, but I also knew that she was just an insignificant little maid who wouldn't get into any trouble. On the contrary, restricting her freedom and confining her to the mansion would only drive her crazy with anxiety and worry, given her personality.

  One side thought secretly, one side walked back to the room. There was no one else in the room, only Ling Mo wearing a white dress, sitting at the desk, playing with a note in her hand.

  As she saw me coming in, she didn't get up either, still holding that piece of paper, raised her eyes and looked at me with a hint of a smile: "Third Princess Wang, where did you get this prescription from?"

  I walked over, took the note from her hand, and only then did I realize that it was the prescription that Chun Yu had given me that day. At that time, I was too shocked and confused by Sang Muqing's affairs, so I simply handed the note to Shuying without paying much attention to it.

  Later, I left the mansion and went to Xieyigou. A series of changes almost exhausted my heart, and I completely forgot that there was such a prescription. I don't know where Lianmeng found it again.

  "What's wrong?" I asked.

  She looked at my belly with a seemingly smiling yet not quite smiling expression: "The princess probably hasn't used the prescription on this sheet of paper yet, that's fortunate."

  My heart skipped a beat as I took another close look at the medicine on the list, but still couldn't find anything out of place.

  Liu Mo smiled and said, "Princess, you can spare yourself the worry. The number of people who can produce this prescription is extremely small in this world. Apart from Young Master, probably only Chun Yu Yi, Xiao Sheng Yin, and a few others have this skill. You've looked at it, but it's all in vain."

  I looked at the prescription in my hand and recalled Mr. Chun's words: "This prescription was indeed written by Mr. Chun for me, and he told me that if I wanted to keep the fetus in my belly, I should take the medicine according to his formula every day."

  Liu Mo smiled: "What you said is not wrong, it's just that one word was left out. If the third princess doesn't want to keep the fetus in her belly, she can take this prescription every day."

  My heart sank, and Lian Miao continued to smile with a hint of mockery: "This prescription is really clever, even the imperial physician in the palace might not be able to detect anything unusual. These medicinal ingredients seem warm and nourishing, and when combined, they won't harm the queen at all. However, as for the fetus in her womb, it's hard to say... Looking at this prescription, it specifically emphasizes that 'decoction should replace water', truly a painstaking effort. It wants to abort the child while also avoiding harming the queen's precious body, how interesting."

  A chill spread through my heart, and I struggled to prop myself up against the desk, but before I could react in any way, the sound of Xiao Ying's sobbing had already drifted in from outside the door.

  "Miss, miss, what can be done now? Young Master Yun is about to be executed at the Meridian Gate, the execution date has been set, just three days from now..."

  Still remember the shocking swan's reflection (harem)