When I came back from washing, I saw him, who had changed into his close-fitting clothes, sitting on the bed, reading with a book in his hand, and when he heard my footsteps, he looked up and patted the place next to him, and asked me to go to him.

Han Yunduo and the others retreated with interest, the door creaked shut, and only me and him were left in the room.

Since he sent Mina away, I have been separated from him for three months, and during the day when I am in front of people, I have always shouted at him, and told him that at night, we will sleep in the same bed, and we will be separated by a great distance, back to back.

Tonight, his action made me hesitate.

In the past three months, he has never been like this, he has not explained, he has not flattered, and he has not shown weakness, and the gentleness like tonight has made me a little unaccustomed to it.

When he saw that I was standing still, he got out of bed, picked me up by the waist, and laid me on the bed first, and then he himself lay down.

A thin quilt, wrapped by two people, is still a little crowded, and even a little hot.

"It's too hot!"

I tried to push him away, but he hugged him tighter.

"You have suffered today!"

He put his arms around me and didn't let go, and the face-to-face position almost suffocated me.

"I've suffered something, I'm just, it's—"

But what? I don't even know what to say about the rest of the story.

"Whatever you hear in the queen's palace, don't believe those words!"

Yu Xin suddenly said this.

I wanted to ask why, but these three words were swallowed by me, because before I could speak, Yuxin told me by himself:

"That girl, the child in her belly, is not a normal child."

"Do you remember the soul under this skin?"

Yuxin let go of me and asked softly.

"Concubine Zhen?"

I'm not so sure.

"That's right, she's the same as that girl."

Yu Xin nodded.

Why did the children in the capital die young, and why couldn't they be saved? Ordinary people may really be closed because of the so-called door of life and death, but the royal family and nobles are because of demon blood.

Demon blood can make people gain great energy in an instant, and some of this energy is a good reaction, and some of them are fatal.

At the beginning, the royal family did this to make themselves strong, but once, after giving demon blood to a pregnant concubine, the child was born in just over three months, and it was ahead of others to grow into a talent. This thing has become a trick for the nobles to treat those concubines and side rooms.

Keeping the small but not the big, on the condition of sacrificing the mother, supplemented by the nourishment of demon blood, to achieve a talented and intelligent child.

At that time, because the first emperor had died, the emperor was unwilling to see the child, so he deliberately let the imperial doctor do his hands and feet, targeting this poor woman.

As a result, perhaps because of the dose of demon blood, Concubine Zhen and the child were indeed two lives, but it was this death that made her immortal soul and burrowed into the child's body and stubbornly survived.

Evil spirits will devour flesh and skin, although she found the turtle clan to help her, but she devoured the blood and bones of her child, but did not stop, this Yuxin's skin, not stolen by her, let alone peeled off by her, but really, really, from her flesh and bones, grown up, but the flesh and blood inside have been devoured by her.

Even if we don't kill her, it won't be long before her whole skin festers until it's completely gone, and it can no longer wrap her soul.

She approached me as Yuxin and teased me for my body, as long as she ate my heart, she could stay in my body, until in the end, I was the same as Yuxin, only a human skin remained.

It's just that she doesn't have a chance.

Mina was in the same situation as her, except that the dose of demon blood that Mina took was several times that of hers.

The normality in the mouth of the imperial doctor has always referred to only the fetus in her womb, after taking too much demon blood, the mother's body will quickly decline, and the same problem will occur mentally.

Convulsions, night sweats, nightmares, can't tell the difference between reality and illusion, can't see what is past and present.

As babies grow older, this situation will get worse, and at this time, someone will keep telling stories in their ears. They will think that they are living in such a story, and the truth is what is described in the story.

This kind of trick was used by many people when the harem was competing for favor, but the current emperor prefers a demon, which makes other people in the harem have no chance to take advantage of it.

Yuxin told me that no matter what Mina said, it was not her real memory, nor was it a real fact.

The queen mother invited me over, but when the child in her womb had absorbed enough demonic power and was ready to break out, she remembered to let me go, and arranged for me to see her for the last time and witness her tragic death.

If you think about it, isn't this just a conspiracy?

Her first son, the sister-in-law who was conceived in October, because I died in the mountains and forests of the frontier, and after so many years, the bones have not been returned, how can she not hate me?

Before Yuling, where did he really want to marry me, he was just a pawn of the queen's mother, thinking about taking me back, and after bringing me to the palace, he secretly did something to kill me to avenge her son.

"Tranquility, hearing is false, seeing is believing, these eight words, you should know."

Yuxin let me lean on his shoulder, one hand on the back of my head, rubbing it for a while.

"I know."

I was really relieved to be so persuaded by him, and I felt that what he said seemed to be very reasonable.

But when I think of the scene of Mina's tragic death, that scene begins to drill into my mind as soon as I close my eyes, I am so frightened that I don't feel sleepy at all.

Who should I trust?

Seeing is believing, how can we see it to know the truth?

How can we distinguish between the truth and falsehood in those words?

I always thought I was a smart person who could hear the truth of other people's words, but when I encountered something, everything changed.

I seem to be the stupidest one, even if a fool talks to me, I can't tell the truth from the fake.

"Then don't think about it, okay?"

He asked softly.

"Why are you rubbing my head?"

I nodded, grabbed his hand, and looked back at him, a little puzzled.

"I'm afraid that Han Yunduo's palm will make you stupid!"

So, is this rubbing my beaten place?

"I don't even remember!"

When he told me this, it dawned on me, oh, it seems that I fainted because someone hit me.

"Look, isn't that stupid?"

Yuxin pulled me into her arms again, rubbed it silently, and said while rubbing:

"I will accompany you, you don't have to be afraid, those nightmares will pass!"