Princess, she is the one who facilitated the extradition.

In order to provide Gui Yao with a place to entertain guests, Xiao Huaijin had people work day and night to build the restaurant.

Although the interior decoration and furnishing are not yet complete, the rooms for Guiyao to receive guests have been prepared in advance.

Li Deshun, accompanied by the imperial physician, met Gui Yao at the restaurant.

"Young lady, His Majesty has sent Physician Chen, who specializes in eye ailments, to examine you."

He conducted himself in an official capacity in front of Imperial Physician Chen.

The fact that De Shun personally brought the imperial physician showed that the emperor did not want to antagonize her, and that Gui Yao should know when to stop.

"Then I'll trouble you."

She stretched out her wrist, but the imperial physician couldn't find anything wrong when he felt her pulse. He then looked at her and saw that Gui Yao had that charming face again today, with her eyes dark and bright, without a trace of external injury.

Unable to find the cause, Imperial Physician Chen could only ask, "What symptoms does the young lady have?"

Gui Yao then told the imperial physician about the excruciating pain in her eyes, which felt as if they were being gouged out.

Physician Chen took her pulse again, but still couldn't find anything. He was at a loss and said truthfully, "The eyes are the orifices of the liver. Usually, when the liver fire is excessive, the fire evil rushes up to the eye meridians, or there is an external injury, the pain that you mentioned will occur."

But the young woman's pulse was normal, and she had no external injuries. In all my years of medical practice, I have never seen such a condition before, and I am at a loss for what to do.

He looked at Li Deshun, "Why don't we ask someone else to take a look, so as not to delay the young lady's treatment?"

Taking the opportunity, Li Deshun asked, "Does Imperial Physician Chen have any recommendations? Could you please go and invite him yourself?"

Imperial Physician Chen also wanted to know what had happened to Gui Yao, so he went there immediately.

When only the two of them were left in the room, Li Deshun hurriedly asked, "Why do your eyes hurt again?"

Gui Yao thought that she might need his help with her mental issues, so she told him what had happened.

"Whoever is so vicious, if I find out, I'll gouge their eyes out myself."

Gui Yao shook her head. "I don't know. I only saw that her fingernails and lips were bright red, so it must be a woman."

Seeing Li Deshun's face covered in tears again, and not wanting him to be distressed, Gui Yao changed the subject, "Deshun, in your opinion, will His Majesty allow the Crown Prince to lead the people in making a vow?"

To get her eyes back, she really needs more willpower.

"meeting."

Li Deshun rubbed his eyes haphazardly, gritted his teeth, and said, "This old servant will definitely make this happen."

He then told the Crown Prince about his idea of ​​returning to the palace, "His Majesty is currently refusing, but he is afraid that if the Crown Prince says too much, you will be too outstanding."

When emperors select women to enter the palace, it is not always for the sake of female beauty; often it is the result of weighing the pros and cons.

If the young master were not a princess, from the perspective of the royal family, this would indeed be a good idea.

It's hard to guarantee that His Majesty won't be persuaded by the Crown Prince.

Alas, I wonder when the letter from Nan Yao will arrive, and when His Majesty will be able to reunite with the young master.

"Let me into the harem?"

Gui Yao laughed, a chilling laugh.

"Is the Crown Prince afraid of dirt?"

Li Deshun was also very angry with the Crown Prince this time, and sold him off without thinking.

"He didn't have this problem before. When he was a child, he was playful and fell into a latrine. After that, he felt that everything he touched was dirty, and he even avoided His Majesty and the Empress."

"He can touch the princess without any problem."

Although Gui Yao was in great pain in the carriage, she was aware of the Crown Prince's actions. Coupled with the memories that surfaced in her mind, she vaguely guessed that the Crown Prince was testing her at the time.

Li Deshun nodded, his expression somewhat strange.

"What's wrong?"

Gui Yao asked suspiciously, "Is there more to this story?"

Fat Deshun seemed uncertain. "You really want to tell me?"

"explain."

If Gui Yao had known what De Shun was going to say next, she would never have been so resolute.

De Shun said, "It wasn't just the Crown Prince who fell in, but also the Princess. However, the Princess was less than two years old at the time and didn't know anything."

Perhaps it was because they shared a similar fate, or perhaps for some other reason, that the prince was unharmed when he touched the princess…

Gui Yao quickly raised her hand to stop him, "Your Crown Prince is quite mischievous."

De Shun nodded in complete agreement.

If His Highness hadn't been so playful and encouraged the young master to sneak out of the palace with him by hiding in a chamber pot, resulting in the two little ones mistaking the chamber pot for a water bucket...

But I won't tell the young mistress about these flavorful past events, lest she develop some kind of problem.

But the expression on his face was enough for Gui Yao to imagine some of the scenarios.

Therefore, after the other imperial physician also failed to diagnose the problem and could only leave behind a prescription for liver protection and eye health, Gui Yao secretly followed Li Deshun and sneaked into the palace.

Li Deshun truthfully informed the emperor of the diagnoses made by the two imperial physicians.

"Neither of them noticed the problem?"

"Yes."

Li Deshun reported, "But this old servant has had people inquire, and it is true that Miss Guiyao fell ill twice."

He paused, then tentatively asked, "Your Majesty, could there really be some kind of evil magic?"

The emperor glanced at his eyes, which were slightly swollen.

She's been crying.

He then looked at the Crown Prince, who was kneeling there, his whole body hunched over, as if his soul had left his body, and asked, "How is the search for the remnants of the Luo family going?"

Once Cheng Le's affair was exposed, he ordered people to take photos of the Luo family members. However, the Luo family members had received advance warning and left behind only some women, children, and relatives who knew nothing. The rest of them all ran away in advance.

"Still looking."

The crown prince seemed to have no strength left to speak, and the emperor was irritated by his cowardly appearance. "Go back."

These words were like a pardon to the crown prince, who hurriedly shook off the foot mat on his body and scrambled away.

With his return, the Eastern Palace was thrown into chaos.

The palace servants fetched clothes and carried water.

The prince was washed thoroughly from head to toe, inside and out, before he seemed to come back to life.

She took the handkerchief that was handed to her through a cloth, took a sip, and complained to her trusted eunuch, "My idea was clearly very good, why did Father Emperor get so angry?"

They even made him wear a doormat that had been stepped on by countless people. "That's too cruel."

The eunuch naturally tried to appease him, but after talking for a while, the crown prince felt that his breath was affecting the air quality in the room.

He then waved his hand, signaling him to leave.

"I have suffered so much; if I were to have to grovel before Gui Yao, wouldn't that be humiliating?"

When only the Crown Prince was left, he paced back and forth in the room with his hands on his hips. "No, I have to find a way to break her up with Xiao Huaijin and then bring her into the palace..."

Before he could finish speaking, a man carrying a burlap sack was shoved over his head. "Who goes there?"

The prince immediately became alert and tried to pull the sack off, but before he could, a rain of fists began to fall.

"Guards! There's an assassin!"

Gui Yao casually tore off a piece of tablecloth, wrapped it around his fist, and punched the prince repeatedly.

What a despicable thing! How dare he let her enter the palace to be his concubine?

She was punished by her father, yet she showed no remorse and even dared to try to break her and Xiao Huaijin up.

She couldn't kill him.

The prince was beaten and screamed, but Gui Yao had set up a barrier, so the people outside couldn't hear his voice at all.

Gui Yao showed no mercy, even though all indications suggested that her death might not have been caused by the Crown Prince.

But De Shun said that the night before she set off for Nan Yao, she was still herself, and the Crown Prince personally escorted her to the next city.

Even if the crown prince wasn't the real killer, there's still an undeniable connection between them.

She concealed her identity for five years, earning him prestige, yet he couldn't even protect her.

Although he couldn't remember what kind of person he used to be, Gui Yao felt that he couldn't be careless, since he was able to quell a world that had been in chaos for decades in five years, unless he was betrayed by someone he trusted.

All of the above made her want to beat up the Crown Prince, and he still dared to come up with that outrageous idea. Today, she'll settle both old and new scores.

Gui Yao didn't know how long she had been hitting him until the person on the ground stopped moving.

Seeing the prince's face swollen like a pig's head, Gui Yao went to the side room, found the chamber pot, and covered the prince's head with it.

The chamber pot was clean and contained dried flowers to mask the odor, but for someone with psychological trauma, it was the ultimate torture.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Crown Prince's miserable screams came from the Eastern Palace, and in the next instant, the entire Eastern Palace was thrown into chaos once again.

Meanwhile, some news also got out.

The crown prince was found with a sack over his bed and beaten until his head was swollen and his body was covered in bruises.

When the prince awoke from his coma, he found himself covered by a chamber pot and in a dirty sack. He screamed and fainted again.

After the imperial physicians revived him, the crown prince insisted on taking a bath and ordered the palace servants to bring him loofah and naan bread, as if he wanted to scrub the skin off his body. The bruises on his body were simply too gruesome to look at.

In an attempt to wash himself clean, he submerged his entire head in the water, only to faint from the suffocation...

When the news reached the emperor's ears, he cursed, "Useless good-for-nothing."

He paused, then instructed Li Deshun, "Keep it down, but don't let it get out and embarrass the royal family."

Li Deshun tentatively asked, "Should we investigate the assassin?"

He guessed it must be the young master, as she never hesitated to beat the crown prince.

The emperor scoffed, "He gets beaten up even while hiding in his room, what's the point of investigating? Don't you want him to be humiliated enough?"

Li Deshun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he would go out of the palace that night to ask the young master.

After leaving the palace, Gui Yao strolled over to Prince Jin's residence. Before she could even sit down, Zhao Mingyue came to her door.

"Gui Yao, something terrible has happened. Bai Daya got a knife from somewhere and cut her own baby out of her womb, killing both mother and child."

Zhao Mingyue's adopted sister, Bai Daya, who had an affair with Tong Qingyuan, was sentenced to death, and was to be executed after the child was born.

How could someone who is afraid of death commit suicide?

Gui Yao felt a sense of unease, just as Zhi Jian hurriedly walked in. "Something terrible has happened! Several death row inmates in the Ministry of Justice prison have committed suicide."

This is too suspicious. Gui Yao and Xiao Huaijin exchanged a glance. "Let's go take a look."