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Chapter 288 Convenient Setting

At the Spring Hunting Ceremony, almost all the princes and princesses were wiped out!
This shocking news was like a sudden tsunami, sweeping across the entire capital in an instant, shaking the court and the public! Inside the palace, there were even loud cries and wails everywhere. The concubines who usually lived a life of luxury cried their hearts out upon hearing the bad news.

Chu Lu sat in the imperial study, his face as gloomy as water.

He was almost 100% certain that this horrific tragedy was definitely planned by Xiao Jiu!

There are two reasons.

First, Chu Lu learned the whole story from the descriptions of the few surviving followers. At that time, the princes and princesses who were originally scattered all over the hunting grounds, chasing their own prey, gathered in a remote valley unknowingly, as if being pulled by some invisible force. Then, the overwhelming crazy beasts came from all directions like a tide, surrounded them, and launched a bloody massacre. The whole process was full of weirdness, and it was definitely not an ordinary beast riot.

The second, and most crucial point - among all the royal family members who died, only the Ninth Princess, who was newly married to Xiao Jiu, survived unscathed!
"Qin Su," Chu Lu asked, "Now, do you have any idea? Do you remember the corresponding plot?"

Qin Su's voice was a little confused: "Something is wrong... I do remember the details of the beast attack in the original novel, but that plot seems... different from the current situation. Moreover, that plot doesn't seem to have any direct connection with you, the emperor."

Chu Lu frowned and was about to ask further questions.

At this moment, a young eunuch hurried in with a panicked look, knelt on the ground with a plop, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, there is news from Kunning Palace... When the Queen heard the bad news about the Crown Prince, she was overwhelmed with grief and heartbroken... She fainted on the spot!"

Chu Lu was startled. The queen was in a coma?
Although he had no feelings for the queen of this world, there was such a big mess right now. As the master of the harem, if the queen had any more accidents, the situation would only become more chaotic.

"Go to Kunning Palace!" Chu Lu immediately stood up and gave the order in a deep voice.

Arriving at Kunning Palace, the palace was in chaos, with maids and eunuchs crying and making a mess. The queen was lying on the phoenix couch, her face pale, her eyes closed, and she was unconscious. Several doctors were standing around the bed, all with sad faces, helpless.

"How is the queen's condition?" Chu Lu asked the chief medical officer of the Imperial Hospital.

The envoy bowed quickly and answered respectfully in a hoarse voice, "Your Majesty, we have just carefully examined the Queen's pulse. The Queen was so sad when she heard the bad news about the Crown Prince that she became so angry that her blood rushed up and she fainted."

Chu Lu frowned and asked, "Is it serious? When can he wake up?"

The envoy bowed again, speaking in a more gentle tone: "Your Majesty, the queen's physical condition is not bad. Although it looks scary that she fainted this time, her life is not in danger. It's just that she was too emotional and damaged her vitality. As long as she rests well, we will use some soothing and blood-relieving soups and medicines to regulate her. When the queen's blood circulation is smooth, she will wake up naturally. We think that if it's fast, it will be one or two days, and if it's slow, it will be three to five days. But after waking up, you have to rest well for a while, and you must not be exposed to any major stimulation, otherwise it will be delayed for a long time and hurt your body."

Chu Lu listened and realized that there was no serious problem, so he breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded and said, "That's good. You must take good care of her, and there must be no mistakes in the medicine. If the queen makes any movement or if there are any changes in her condition, report to me immediately."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The hospital envoy and the imperial doctors present bowed in agreement.

Chu Lu turned around expressionlessly and left Kunning Palace for the time being.

Back at the Yangxin Palace, Qin Su's voice suddenly rang in Chu Lu's mind, with a hint of sudden enlightenment: "I understand! So that's how it is!"

Chu Lu was startled and asked in his heart: "What's going on? What do you understand? Tell me now!"

Qin Su seemed to be lost in thought, muttering to herself, "No wonder I couldn't understand it all at once. It turns out that she forcibly grafted two unrelated plots together! In order to deal with you, Xiao Jiu actually disrupted his own storyline to this extent!"

"Stop talking nonsense! What's going on!" Chu Lu urged irritably. Qin Su finally reacted and began to explain: "Well, I'll explain it to you now, but to understand the current situation, we must first explain the truth of the beast tide plot. In Xiao Jiu's original novel, she did plan a beast tide, using two special powders. One powder can greatly stimulate the ferocity of wild beasts, making them manic and irritable, and losing their reason; the other powder has a peculiar fragrance that can strongly attract all wild beasts within a radius of dozens of miles."

"Xiao Jiu's plan is to first quietly spread the powder that stimulates the beasts in some places where large beasts often appear in the hunting grounds. Then, secretly fumigate the clothes of the princes and princesses with the powder that can attract beasts. In this way, when the princes and princesses wearing clothes stained with the powder enter the hunting grounds, they will be like moving baits, which will immediately attract the beasts that have been stimulated to pounce on them crazily, thus causing the tragedy today."

"But!" Qin Su changed the subject, "In the plot of Xiao Jiu's original novel, the protagonist of this spring beast hunt is actually Sui Xianzhi, the male supporting character who was tricked by Xiao Jiu into becoming his lover!"

"The plan was originally intended to torture the male supporting role. In the original novel, the male supporting role wanted to show off his prowess in the Spring Hunt and gain the emperor's appreciation. Xiao Jiu naturally wouldn't allow that, so he secretly used this trick, which led to him being besieged by the frenzied beasts. Although he fought hard, he was ultimately outnumbered and severely injured, with blood all over his body."

"Afterwards, because the prince was also slightly injured, he arrogantly snatched away the few remaining life-saving drugs in the camp and insulted him, saying that a person of such low status was not worthy of using good medicine. As a result, the male supporting role could only watch his injuries worsen and suffered terribly. His body and mind were greatly damaged."

Qin Su paused and emphasized: "That's right. In the original plot, although the beast tide was dangerous, no one died. At most, they were just injured."

Chu Lu was even more confused when he heard this: "Why did Xiao Jiu go to so much trouble to change the plot like this?"

Qin Su then gave an answer that Chu Lu didn't expect: "She did this to make the queen heartbroken and unconscious from grief, thus activating the ending plot of the later part of the original story line - the emperor's sudden death!"

Chu Lu felt it was ridiculous when he heard this: "The emperor died suddenly? The queen fainted, why did the emperor die suddenly? Did he commit suicide for love? Did they have such a good relationship?"

"No." Qin Su denied it immediately. "It has nothing to do with feelings. In the later part of Xiao Jiu's original storyline, there is such a plot. At that time, civil unrest broke out in the world, and the prince died unexpectedly while leading troops to suppress the rebellion. When the queen heard the bad news, she was heartbroken and fainted on the spot. Although the emperor was also sad about the death of the prince, he was far from seeking death. The reason why he died suddenly was because of another setting - yes, it was poison."

"According to the original novel, the emperor's body has long been infected with a very secret chronic poison. The poison was personally injected by the queen, and it has been accumulated over a period of more than ten years. If this poison is taken with a special antidote every five days, everything will be normal, and it can even nourish the body. But if the antidote is not taken in the middle of the process, the poison will quickly take effect within a few days.

The symptoms are the same as those of death due to overwork, exhaustion and weakness. When the poison kills, even the most skilled imperial physician in the world cannot detect any signs of poisoning. This is one of the most secretive and vicious methods of killing.

"And the antidote has always been managed and prepared by the Queen herself. Now that the Queen has suddenly fallen into a coma and lost consciousness, naturally no one can provide the antidote for the Emperor. In this way, in a few days, the Emperor will suddenly die due to the lack of antidote. This is Xiao Jiu's real purpose!"

Chu Lu was stunned, and after a while he said, "Where do all these messed up drugs come from? No wonder you complained about the rampant female drug cheats. And is there something wrong with the plot? Why did the queen poison the emperor? What did she want? And, she's just unconscious, can't we just wait until she wakes up?"

Qin Su sighed helplessly: "Chu Lu, these settings, in Xiao Jiu's original novel, all popped up suddenly to force the story to end. It is pure deus ex machina, without any foreshadowing or rigorous logic at all."

Chu Lu was unwilling to give up and asked again: "If that's the case, can we save the queen? Or find the antidote she hid?"

Qin Su shook her head and said, "The plot of rescuing the queen or finding an antidote is naturally not in the original book. After all, the story was almost over at that time. So there are almost no relevant clues. I can't give you any help."

Seeing that neither this nor that worked, Chu Lu couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "What are these online writers doing? Can't they have a little professional ethics? For the convenience of the plot, they dare to write all kinds of messed-up settings! Shameless!"

Qin Su paused, and added: "Of course, it's not that there is no way out. After all, this is just the plot of the original novel. You are in the middle of it now, maybe you can give it a try, maybe you can really find some turning point."

Chu Lu heard this, thought for a moment and said, "Try it... Well, let's try it."

After all, he couldn't just sit there and wait for death.

(End of this chapter)