After being forced into a marriage with a wealthy family, the virtuous wife caused a huge uproar.

"I was afraid of scaring you." Gu Ce knew how crazy he could be when the poison took effect.

He remembered the first time he was poisoned, he happened to be out and about, and if Zhong Sheng hadn't knocked him unconscious...

He might commit suicide. That was the least severe case, and it was still unbearable, let alone now. If he weren't chained up, he might have died from the poison long ago.

Only then did he realize that the poison in his body had penetrated deep into his bones, and without an extraordinary stroke of luck, it would be difficult to find someone who could cure him.

Later, he sought out doctors from various sources, visiting more than a dozen doctors who were said to have good medical skills, but none of them could solve the problem.

Rong Yingluo was speechless; it was indeed quite frightening.

If she hadn't been a healer and hadn't been well-informed and experienced by her master, she wouldn't have been completely terrified. If she had been an ordinary young lady, she would have surely fallen ill from fright.

Rong Yingluo carefully took his pulse again.

"Tonight, bloodletting temporarily relieved the poisoning, but it's only temporary."

There are at least a dozen kinds of toxins in your body. Over the years, they have interacted and balanced with each other, which has changed the toxicity. I don't have a way to completely detoxify you for the time being.

"If you suffer another attack of the poison later, I can only alleviate your pain by bleeding you out." Rong Yingluo was a little frustrated.

The poison in Gu Ce's body was really too troublesome.

If one of them is solved, the other will gain the upper hand, immediately causing an imbalance, and he will die even faster.

It's even more impractical to prepare medicine based on each type of poison. When decocting the medicine, the various antidotes would mix together, and the resulting changes would be completely uncontrollable.

She didn't dare take that risk.

"No rush, take your time to study it. I've gotten used to it after all these years." Gu Ce closed his eyes.

He only carried a sliver of hope that Rong Yingluo could completely cure him of the poison, but he did not place all his hopes on her.

It's already quite remarkable that a sixteen-year-old girl possesses such abilities.

It's already a great achievement that we were able to suppress the onset of the poison tonight.

At this moment, Zhong Sheng came in with some things.

"Zhong Sheng, you clean up for your master. I'm going to examine that cup of blood." Rong Yingluo stepped aside.

The two are not actually husband and wife.

"Young Madam, why don't you take care of the young master?" Zhong Sheng thought that Rong Yingluo's presence here tonight showed that she cared about the young master.

Perhaps the young mistress has already developed romantic feelings for the young master.

As a loyal subordinate, he naturally had to consider his master's needs.

"You should do it. You're his personal servant, isn't your job to take care of his daily life?" Rong Yingluo declined, not giving him a chance to say anything more, and went directly to the table to sit down and began to study it seriously.

Gu Ce glanced at Zhong Sheng and shook his head.

He was indeed not worthy of Rong Yingluo taking care of him.

Since she married into the Gu family, he has not treated her well.

He never expected Rong Yingluo to survive from the beginning, and marrying her was a last resort.

Only after getting to know him did I realize that he had married a woman, but she didn't want to marry him. She had someone she loved and was just waiting for a divorce so she could elope with her lover.

Later, he wanted to recruit her as a subordinate and use her for his own purposes, which is why he signed that agreement.

At this moment, Gu Ce was very confused. He didn't even know what his feelings for Rong Yingluo were.

All he knew was that this woman was very attractive to him.

Zhong Sheng worked tirelessly to wipe Gu Ce's body and change his clothes.

"Young Madam, everything is ready," Zhong Sheng reminded her.

Rong Yingluo then looked up.

Gu Ce's face was pale, clearly due to blood loss.

"This underground chamber isn't suitable for you to recuperate. Why don't you go upstairs and sleep in the bed?" Rong Yingluo suggested.

"Okay." "Gu Ce is very obedient."

Zhong Sheng carried Gu Ce on his back.

The three of them quietly entered the study, and Rong Yingluo closed the hidden door as before.

She discovered the biggest secret in this courtyard, and she didn't know if Gu Ce would have any objections.

Upon hearing the noise, Yinghong immediately got up.

"Miss."

"Yinghong, light the lamps," Rong Yingluo instructed.

Yinghong lit the lamp and saw clearly that the prince was lying limply on Zhong Sheng's back, as if he had been seriously injured.

"Miss, what's wrong?" Yinghong asked worriedly.

"It's nothing, the young master is sick. Please bring out another blanket and cover him with it."

"Yes."

Zhong Sheng carefully placed Gu Ce on the bed, and Ying Hong brought a blanket to cover Gu Ce.

"Zhong Sheng, I'll write a prescription now. Go get the medicine after dawn." Rong Yingluo immediately wrote a prescription to replenish blood.

Zhong Sheng took the prescription and left.

Yinghong also consciously withdrew from the inner room.

Rong Yingluo found a porcelain bottle and collected the blood, planning to study it more carefully tomorrow to see what poisons Gu Ce had been poisoned with.

I washed my hands and went to bed.

Gu Ce turned his head to look at her: "How did you discover the underground chamber?"

That mechanism is very well hidden.

"When I got up in the middle of the night, I heard faint screams coming from underground. Although the sound was very soft, even Yinghong heard it."

I took your pulse before and guessed that you would have a flare-up of the poison once a month, so I made that guess about you.

You usually sleep here, but tonight you made an excuse not to come, which made me suspicious.

I just didn't expect you to be in so much pain when the poison took effect. I thought you would at most be a little weak, or have a headache or chest tightness, or at most have pain all over your body, but it wouldn't be too serious.

After all, you said you always managed to detoxify yourself, but the residual poison wasn't completely removed. Who knew it would be this serious? I suspect the doctor who detoxified you was a mediocre doctor.” Rong Yingluo was very skeptical of the doctor's abilities.

"It was my father who hired the doctor for me; he used to be a military doctor on the battlefield," Gu Ce said truthfully.

"A military doctor? No wonder. Military doctors are good at treating external injuries. Didn't the Gu family hire an imperial physician for you?" Rong Yingluo knew she had said the wrong thing as soon as she finished speaking.

How could the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion not invite the imperial physician? But the Duke's mansion is managed by Madam Su. How could she allow Gu Ce to be completely cured? It was she who poisoned him. It was just for show. She probably bribed the imperial physician long ago.

"Doesn't your grandmother care about you either?" Rong Yingluo asked, puzzled.

Gu Ce is the eldest grandson of the Gu family, and should be the most important heir, so he should be taken better care of.

The old lady gave her the impression of being a nice elderly person, which shouldn't be the case.

"My grandmother wasn't close to me, and I don't know why. But as the eldest son and grandson of the main branch, I enjoyed everything I was entitled to."

She just didn't love me as much as other grandmothers doted on me. She was slightly better to her other grandchildren than to me, but only slightly. She tried her best to treat them all equally.

This sounds reasonable; older people don't necessarily have to dote on younger generations.

She had seen too many grandmothers who did not love their grandchildren. Whenever their grandchildren disobeyed or showed the slightest disobedience, they would beat them severely until the grandchildren begged for mercy or were bleeding from their heads before they would stop.

If you can't figure it out right now, then don't think about it anymore. At least the old lady is still good to her. She's even willing to give up her imperial edict, which is something few people can do.

The conflicted old lady.

"Did you dig that underground chamber?" Rong Yingluo discovered such a big secret, but Gu Ce didn't seem to care.

"No. The Gu family's house was bestowed upon them by the late emperor after my great-grandfather made unparalleled contributions."

It used to be the residence of a prince, but after his rebellion failed, it was taken over by the Imperial Household Department and brought into the possession of the royal family.

The Silver Willow Courtyard was the residence of the eldest son of each generation of the Gu family. The grandfather and father both lived in this courtyard before inheriting the title.

I was invited to be named the heir apparent, so naturally I will live here as well.

The secret room must have always been there; my father also told me how to get in.

When I was fifteen, the poison started to take effect, and my father told me to go to a secret room each time to wait out the effects, so that no one else would know. So each time, I would go down there to get through that period,” Gu Ce explained.

"How long do you suffer each time the poison flares up?" Rong Yingluo thought of how he had suffered when the poison flared up before.