The room is not well ventilated and the bitter medicinal smell is strong.

As the palace maids left, only Yingying and Yan Jihua were left in the bedroom. Yingying approached the bed a few steps and saw that Yan Jihua's face was pale and skinny, and she could no longer see the appearance of Princess Huale in the past.

"...I was still thinking just now, would you come after you came before you finished a bowl of medicine?" Yan Jihua said several times, her voice was low and hoarse, and Yingying needed to rely on her to hear her clearly.

I have to say that Yan Jihua in front of you made Yingying feel very uncomfortable. She felt for no reason for her but felt that there was no friendship between the two. She couldn't even get up and down. Finally, she went straight to the point: "I have never harmed you, and I have never poisoned you, why did Liu'er slander me?"

Yan Jihua sighed softly. She did not answer Yingying directly, but said with a wry smile: "You should have heard that the reason why I was rejected by Your Majesty is because Your Majesty discovered traces of Nanyin's contact with Prince Qing and secretly participated in the war in the northwest."

Yingying naturally knew it, she nodded, "But there is no evidence."

I don’t know if Prince Qing did a good job in keeping secrets or if Nanyin Kingdom had the means, although Qin Rong found that Nanyin Kingdom had two sides, he could not find any evidence of its betrayal of the Northern Region Covenant.

Yan Jihua laughed softly again. Her current physical condition could not hold back her great sorrow and joy. Just a few laughs made her cough. She sighed: "Yes, no evidence was found, Your Majesty directly convicted me."

"Even if I found evidence, I married into the Northern Region and was alone and helpless. Why should Your Majesty punish me for Nan Yin's mistake?"

She is just a useless chess.

Closed his eyes, Yan Ji Huaping recovered for a moment before speaking again. She stated a fact with extremely calm emotions: "Actually, you guessed that Nan Yin was ambitious to betray the alliance with your Northern Territory, that is, it was controlling the war in the Northwest, and it was to annex your Northern Territory."

Yingying was stunned for a moment and said nothing, but she didn't expect Yan Jihua to tell Nan Yin's secret so directly.

"Why did you tell me this?"

Yingying vaguely smelled something wrong. She took a step back and looked at Yan Jihua vigilantly, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell these words to the third brother?"

Yan Jihua blinked twice. After she got sick, her cheeks were thin and the size of a palm, making her eyes look big and hollow.

She still said in that calm tone: "Can't Yingying see it yet? No matter whether you say these words or not, they will not change the result."

"You ask me why Liu'er is slandering you, because you are the princess of the Northern Region, the legitimate daughter of Gu, who is powerful in the court and the prince Qinrong's heart. So what if she slanders you? As long as this Northern Region is still in the hands of Prince Qinrong, he will not ignore you. As long as he is willing to protect you, Nan Yin will have reason to tear up the covenant."

To put it bluntly, Nanyinguo just wanted to find a reason to break up with the Northern Region, and Yingying was the one who was pulled out by innocent people.

Yingying still felt something was wrong. She endured the discomfort in her heart and continued to ask: "How can the two countries' alliance be destroyed just by saying it. Let's not talk about how Qin Rong chose in front of her children's love and the Northern Region, how can you be sure that this Northern Region will protect me?"

Yan Jihua covered her mouth and coughed a few times, correcting Yingying's words: "It's not us, it's them."

"I am different from them. They are not me who want to tear the covenant. They are not me who want to tear the covenant. They are not me who slander you. They are them. I... will never be him."

After listening to Yan Jihua's first half of the sentence, Yingying was asked before she could ask, but she was attracted by her second half of the sentence: "Is it the poison caused by Liu'er? Didn't you say that you wanted to take it yourself and seek death from poison?"

Yan Jihua shook her head: "I told the public that I wanted to accept it myself. I sought death from the poison, but to save you."

"Then why do you want to save me?"

"Probably because..." Yan Jihua paused for a moment, looked up and looked at Yingying seriously. She bent the corners of her mouth and replied lightly: "I have been a chess piece for many years. I always have to live for myself. I can't be squeezed out by them before I die."

Yingying asked tentatively: "Who are they?"

Who is always controlling all this behind the scenes? What Yan Jihua said is true. Yan Jihua is a chess piece, Prince Qing is a chess piece, and even she has become a chess piece.

This is related to the secret of Nanyin Kingdom. Yingying didn't expect Yan Jihua to tell her, but Yan Jihua really said that, and she gently spit out a name: "Who is it?"

"Of course it is Yan Ning, the prince of Nanyin Kingdom."

The beginning and change of all major events came from Princess Huale's arrival in the Northern Region.

"...Yan Ning?" Yingying was stunned when she heard the name.

I couldn't help but recall the man who held a cat and smiled slightly in the past. She could not associate him with 'them' no matter what. Yingying didn't believe Yan Ning would do such a thing. She resisted and said, "Impossible, you must be lying to me!"

Yan Jihua's eyelashes trembled, and she was not angry at Yingying's distrust. She even bent her eyebrows and showed a very clean smile.

"Don't Yingying believe it?"

Yan Jihua seemed to have to break Yingying's favor for Yan Ning. She said one after another: "It's terrible. Yingying, the Yan Ning you saw before were all fake. He is not the real Yan Ning."

"The real Yan Ning is really scary. He is a man-eating monster. As long as you have value to him, he will chew it. Crush your flesh and suck the blood in your body. You struggle and you cry. It's useless. I am his real sister. I was born with him. It is said that he should be the closest existence, but see what he has turned me into?"

"Yingying, he is really scary."

Yan Jihua's fear really existed. When she mentioned Yan Ning's name, she kept muttering the words she said as if she was crazy. She was really afraid, and Yan Jihua's hands and feet were cold and her whole body was shaking. Her body, which was sitting on the couch, was unable to slide down. She had been struggling for a long time but couldn't sit up.

"Can Yingying help me?"

"I really don't have the strength."

Seeing that she was really uncomfortable, Yingying paused for a moment and walked to the couch and put her hand on her shoulder.

There is no softness that a girl should have. Yingying's tentacles touched her shoulders, as if she was so thin that she only had a skeleton left. Yan Jihua was still trembling, her eyes were empty and unconscious, and her face no longer covered her before.

"Yan Jihua, why did you become like this?" When Yingying helped Yan Jihua up, the question that hovered in her heart still spoke out.

In her memory, Yan Jihua, with a golden fan and red dress, and her beautiful eyes were confusing, and she always looked tall and arrogant.

This sentence probably really stimulated Yan Jihua. She suddenly collapsed and burst into tears, and she repeated Yingying's words: "Yes, why did I, Yan Jihua, become like this?"

"Yingying, please hug me, okay? I feel so cold."

Yingying hugged her tightly into her arms amid her crying. At that moment, Yingying's mind was blank, and only Yan Jihua's crying was left in her ears...

After coming out of Yan Jihua's room, Yingying felt heavy and uncomfortable.

What made her even more uncomfortable was that when she pushed the door out, she found a palace maid standing very close to the door. The palace maid was tall and slightly lowered her eyelashes. When she heard the sound of pushing the door, she didn't hide or mess, but just lowered her head.

This is the palace maid who just fed Yan Jihua medicine.

Yingying thought about what Yan Jihua had just said to her, and for a moment she began to wonder if the person in front of her was Yan Ning's person. Her steps were empty, and Yingying deliberately walked towards the direction of the palace maid. The palace maid reached out to support her in time, and her voice was low and slightly heavy: "Grandmaid, be careful."

Yingying took this opportunity to see the appearance of this palace maid clearly.

She had been obsessed with Yan Jihua before, but did not pay much attention to this beautiful palace maid. Now, after taking a closer look, Yingying found that this palace maid was not just beautiful, but her long narrow eyes were beautiful and deep. The most important thing was that Yingying always felt like she had seen these eyes.

"Who are you?" Yingying asked directly.

The palace maid narrowed her eyes slightly, and she naturally took back the hand that was placed on Yingying, and saluted and replied: "I am the palace maid sent by the Nanyin delegation to serve the goddess."

Yingying asked where she came from. She knew that the question she had just asked was ambiguous. She paused and asked again: "What's your name?"

The palace maid looked at Yingying again, and something seemed to be flowing in her beautiful black pupils. She curled her lips and replied, "I call Xue'er."

...Xue'er, a palace maid from Nanyin Kingdom.

Yingying thought for a while, but she didn't remember whether there was such a palace maid named Xueer by her side when Yan Ning was still living in the Northern Region Palace. Before she could think about it, Xueer took the road intimately, "I will send the empress back."

"No need." Yingying was so upset that she called Xiaodai who was waiting on the side and went back to the East Palace.

“…”

Since meeting Yan Jihua, Yingying was extremely confused that night, but Qin Rong had something to do in the study and stayed in the middle of the night without coming back.

When she fell asleep in a daze, Qin Rong turned over and hugged her in her arms. Before Yingying hugged the person and told him about the daytime incident, a knock on the door outside, "Empress, Mu Hua praising someone to pass on a message, saying that Empress Hua wanted to see you."

Yingying rubbed her arms in Qin Rong's arms and said in confusion: "Now?"

It was already the hour of Yin, and it was dark and quiet outside.

Yingying was in a bad mood, so she just wanted to get tired of Qin Rong's arms and didn't want to move. Qin Rong saw this and hugged her tightly, kissed the corner of her eyes and said, "It's getting late, if Yingying doesn't want to go, she won't go."

At this time, Yan Jihua was not just the Empress Hua of the Northern Region Kingdom. With the Nanyin envoy being suppressed, Yan Jihua was also under the identity of Prince Nanyin's sister.

Yingying didn't want to go, but she was worried that if she didn't go, she would let Nan Yin catch her. In the end, Xiaodai woke up Yingying's hesitation with just one sentence. Xiaodai said: "I'm afraid that Concubine Hua will not be able to last tonight."
Chapter completed!