At this moment, I stand by Gu Xing's side, anxiously urging, "Your Highness, you have not eaten anything for a day. How can your body endure this?"

Gu Xing looked numbly into the distance, "It's been three months. Father still doesn't care about me. Do you think he really wants to depose me?"

"How could that be? The emperor is just temporarily angry. Once his anger subsides, he will forgive Your Highness."

But Gu Xing remained despondent.

After a moment, I tightly embraced him, "Whether Your Highness can leave or not, I will always be with you."

Hearing this, Gu Xing reluctantly looked up at me and gave a faint smile, "You're suffering because of me, Jinyao."

I shook my head, "Being able to accompany Your Highness is Jinyao's blessing. I am not suffering."

After saying that, I kissed his lips, eagerly offering myself to calm the turmoil in his heart.

Gu Xing became more dependent on my gentleness, while I became increasingly impatient with him.

Fortunately, the emperor could not truly give up on the crown prince. Ultimately, one month later at the empress's birthday celebration, Gu Xing was released from confinement.

But as Gu Xing took that step out of the main hall of the Eastern Palace, he suddenly collapsed to the ground, dead as a doornail.

The entire palace was in chaos.

Call the imperial physician, inform the empress, everyone was trembling with fear.

After the imperial physician's diagnosis, it was concluded that the prince died of a heart attack caused by overwhelming emotions.

The empress, grieving the loss of her beloved son, refused to believe this outcome.

But it was impossible for the crown prince to be poisoned since his meals were always tested by the palace eunuchs before consumption.

So... each time the crown prince was intimate with me, he would be slightly poisoned, as I had applied the poison my father had searched far and wide for on my lips. The poison was colorless and tasteless, causing the person to live in darkness for the rest of their life, instantly dying upon exposure to light.

The physician could only conclude a sudden death after feeling the pulse.

As for me, I had already taken the antidote long ago.

Epilogue:

After Gu Xing's death, all the women in the Eastern Palace were sent to the imperial temple to pray for the crown prince.

It's quiet in the temple, quite peaceful.

As for Feng Yu, in her third year of marriage to the King of Donghu, she was tortured to death, causing a stir in the court and among the people.

But during these three years, Daliang gained a respite and eventually, when its strength was restored, it launched an attack on Donghu, decisively defeating their forces.

Donghu retreated repeatedly and finally agreed to submit.

As for Ling Chong, after achieving my goal, I informed him about Yuanyuan's whereabouts.

Now, they must be living happily as well.

Although the years are peaceful, my life has been distant and far away.

(The End)