The mistress who remarried has returned.

Liu Shun ordered his men to arrest all the guards and take them to the east corner corridor for interrogation. They questioned them about their background, origin, origin, and recent whereabouts, repeating the interrogation several times. If their testimonies did not contradict each other, it was considered that there were no doubts.

After everything was arranged, he and Kang Yin followed Qin Huai toward the Crown Prince's main bedroom in the Eastern Palace.

Tables and chairs were scattered everywhere in the courtyard, flowerpots were overturned, and seals were visible on the walls. The once bustling East Palace, filled with talented people and filled with music, was now desolate.

After Su Yunxi entered the East Palace bedroom, she checked on the Crown Prince's condition. She checked his breathing and found it to be weak and not optimistic. She then lifted the covers to check the Crown Prince's legs. The moment she lifted the covers, a stench hit her. As far as she could see, the wounds were festering and rotting, a shocking sight.

She covered the prince with the blankets and said to him, "Your Highness, hang in there, the doctor will be coming into the mansion to examine you soon."

The crown prince simply relaxed his brows and slept peacefully, without responding to her words.

Su Yunxi felt heartbroken, thinking about how the Crown Prince's life was now uncertain, Empress Xiao's difficult situation in the Cold Palace, and how her younger sister was being raised and tortured by Consort Shu. Empress Xiao and Princess Zhou Yuan had been very kind to her in the past and got along very well with her, probably because she was the least flamboyant of the Crown Prince's concubines and did not pester him.

Su Yunxi came out of the house, stood under the corridor, leaned against the jade pillar, and eagerly waited for Qin Huai to bring the doctor.

As Qin Huai turned the corner of the corridor, he saw Liangdi standing by the railing. He was walking the same route the Crown Prince usually took home, and what he saw was the same scene the Crown Prince saw.

Su Yunxi also saw Qin Huai and his group and hurriedly went to greet them, "We've been waiting for you so long!"

Seeing that she was walking quickly, Qin Huai subconsciously raised his hand slightly.

Su Yunxi approached, but because he had pressed her about her family affairs in the carriage earlier, she was still heartbroken and didn't speak to him, fearing he might press her further about the Crown Prince's tragic situation and mock her. Instead, she went straight past Qin Huai and approached Kang Yin, politely saying, "Dr. Kang, this way please. I will show you the way."

Qin Huai's hand then fell silently down.

Liu Shun said with dissatisfaction, "I thought you were waiting for the general! It turns out you were hoping for the doctor to treat your husband! Once the doctor arrived, the general was nowhere to be seen. It was really a mistake to take you into the manor back then."

Su Yunxi did not respond, but hurriedly led the way to the inner room. She knew in her heart that Qin Huai had his own ulterior motives for taking her back to the mansion.

Qin Huai stared at Su Yunxi and Kang Yin's retreating figures, walking slowly, seemingly lost in thought.

As Kang Yin walked, he asked, "Since we're here, we must follow the general's orders and treat the Crown Prince. Is the Crown Prince still conscious? Can he speak or recognize people?"

As Su Yunxi led the way quickly, she said, "She was still conscious and able to speak the morning before last, but she has been unconscious for the past two days. She doesn't speak or move. I just checked on her, and her face is ashen, and her legs are smelling increasingly bad. Her condition is very serious."

Kang Yin's expression was quite solemn.

Su Yunxi hurriedly asked, "Lord Kang, is there any way to save him?"

Kang Yin followed Su Yunxi into the room: "Let's first take a look at the Crown Prince's specific situation."

Qin Huai walked behind the two of them, having overheard their conversation, but remained silent before entering the master bedroom.

Liu Shun couldn't stop complaining, "He's so nervous around the Crown Prince, he doesn't even know how to restrain himself in front of the General."

Kang Yin took out the medicine bag and acupuncture needles and began to take the prince's pulse and examine him. When he came to the bedside, he glanced at the prince's face and sighed, "Your Highness is so ill, yet there is still a sense of dignity between your brows."

Su Yunxi sat down on the edge of the bed and followed Kang Yin's gaze to look at the Crown Prince's face, and said sincerely, "The Emperor has more than a dozen children, but the Crown Prince is the one who looks most like him."

Qin Huai glanced at the Crown Prince's face, then at Su Yunxi's face, before turning his gaze back to the Crown Prince's residence.

For some reason, Liu Shun was filled with intense jealousy. The concubine's arrogant tone was truly infuriating. So what if the Crown Prince resembled the Emperor? He thought the Crown Prince wasn't even a fraction as handsome as the General! Enraged, Liu Shun kicked the threshold, his toe throbbing with pain. The concubine had clearly been the General's mistress, treating him incredibly well—it was all a lie! And now she was praising another man! ...

Kang Yin focused intently on examining the Crown Prince.

Su Yunxi lifted the blanket, and immediately the stench of rotting wounds wafted out. Kang Yin covered his nose and frowned. Su Yunxi said, "I'm sorry, Dr. Kang, this injury has indeed been delayed for too long. Look at his two legs, it's like the flesh was cut off by the executioner at the Meridian Gate Market."

Seeing that Kang Yin was covering his nose, but Su Yunxi was not, Qin Huai looked away.

Liu Shun couldn't stand it. The Crown Prince was rotten, yet the Consort still treated him like a treasure. Even his stench smelled good? Liu Shun was furious with dissatisfaction, but when he looked at Qin Huai and saw that Qin Huai had no emotion on his face, he felt very pathetic.

Kang Yin then put on gloves and reached out to feel the Crown Prince's legs.

Su Yunxi watched Kang Yin's treatment process, occasionally asking, "Dr. Kang, how is the Crown Prince? Is there any hope for him?"

Kang Yin focused on seeing patients and was used to seeing patients and their families ask about the condition eight hundred times in a quarter of an hour, so he simply didn't reply to Su Yunxi.

Liu Shun couldn't help but say, "How many times are you going to ask if there's any hope left? You may not be tired of asking, but we're all tired of hearing it."

Su Yunxi was so eager to save people that she did lose her composure and then quieted down.

Qin Huai sat down on a chair in the room and looked around at the furnishings. The large bed where the Crown Prince lay with a pale face had several of Su Yunxi's handkerchiefs by his pillow, a piece of Su Yunxi's clothing hanging on the back of the chair, and a hair ribbon that Su Yunxi used to tie her hair on the table. Every detail showed traces of life.

Opposite the bed was a screen, and when the screen was pulled open, there was a large bronze mirror.

Qin Huai's knuckles were white as he rested his hand on the table. He raised his hand and pulled his collar open slightly by half an inch.

After Kang Yin finished his diagnosis, he turned to Qin Huai and said, "General, I plan to administer acupuncture to the Crown Prince. I have only a 40% chance of saving his life. If I fail, he may die."

Qin Huai nodded, "Do your best and leave the rest to fate."

Kang Yin took out acupuncture needles and looked at the Crown Prince's two mutilated legs. "The Crown Prince has always been gentle and, as the heir apparent, could have inherited the throne. There was no need for him to take the risk of assassinating the emperor. General, do you think the Emperor has wronged the Crown Prince, or that the Crown Prince thinks the Emperor has lived too long and can't wait to ascend the throne?"

Qin Huai was rather dull in conversation, saying, "Just focus on getting better."

Kang Yin noticed that Qin Huai had been very quiet after entering the room. Usually, he would discuss the pros and cons of the court with the general, and the general would be happy to discuss and analyze the situation with him. But today, the general was very quiet.

I wonder what's wrong?