Episode 3 recap: At dawn, Fusha was sent to Qianyu Guards.
The Emperor came to the Empress's chambers, and he suddenly expressed his guilt and remorse towards her with deep emotion. He ordered someone to bring a table, intending to paint a portrait for her. It was actually Xiaoqiangzi who had specially suggested this, hoping the Empress would lie down to pose for the painting and fall asleep. But as they waited and waited, the Empress did not fall asleep, and the Emperor himself fell asleep first.
The waiting Fusha was found by a masked woman, who gave her a packet of medicine and instructed her to drug the Emperor with it. The woman also said that if Fusha did not detoxify the poison on her arm, she would die from it.
Afterwards, Fusha confronted the Imperial Physician, questioning why he had lied to her about it being just heatstroke when she was actually poisoned. The Imperial Physician accidentally revealed that Yan Zhang Yun was the one who had supplied the information.
Fusha had the medicine the masked woman gave her checked, and found it was a drug to induce lethargy, not poison. Just as she was debating whether to give it to the Emperor, Daogu came and mistakenly drank the drug, then tearfully claimed that Xiaoqiangzi was his benefactor.
Guessing that someone did not want the Emperor to have an heir, Fusha decided to give the Emperor just a little of the drug. On her way back, she encountered Yan Zhang Yun, who deliberately tripped Xiaoqiangzi into the water.
When the Empress arrived at the Imperial Physician's, he immediately presented a tonic, guaranteeing the Emperor's future vitality.
Yan Zhang Yun brought Xiaoqiangzi before the Emperor, and this time he recklessly knocked the Emperor down multiple times while sparring with him. To help the Emperor win, Xiaoqiangzi had put the enervating drug in Yan Zhang Yun's water, but was discovered and had the water forced down her own throat.
Afterwards, Fusha tearfully appealed to the Emperor, claiming Yan Zhang Yun had beaten her badly and the Emperor had not shown her any favor. At this time, a eunuch delivered a nourishing soup the Empress had personally brewed, which the Emperor directly rewarded to Xiaoqiangzi. After drinking it, Xiaoqiangzi became abnormally feverish. The Empress, waiting in vain for the Emperor, came and saw the Emperor's intimate behavior with Xiaoqiangzi, flying into a jealous rage and ordering Xiaoqiangzi expelled.
The disoriented Xiaoqiangzi went to Yan Zhang Yun's palace, seeing his heroic bearing and embracing him, only to be knocked unconscious on the spot. To make Xiaoqiangzi leave the Emperor, Yan Zhang Yun deliberately spread the news of their intimate behavior to the Empress Dowager, so that the now-isolated Xiaoqiangzi had no choice but to seek refuge with the Qianyu Guards.
At dawn, I woke up and went to the emperor's palace, saying that the rumors outside were just gossip, there's no way the two of them could be involved. Just as I finished speaking, my eyes were blinded by sand, just as the emperor was blowing the sand away from my eyes. The empress dowager happened to come to the palace and came across the emperor cradling the face of the eunuch Xiaoqiang. The empress dowager immediately ordered Xiaoqiang the eunuch to be executed. The emperor pleaded with the empress dowager to show mercy.
Just as I was stabbed by the white silk at dawn, I vaguely recalled some past events. I instinctively hurt the people around me, when Yan Zhang Yun came to prove that Xiaoqiang was actually a secret guard of the Qianyu Guard, tasked with protecting the emperor. In order to save Xiaoqiang's life, the emperor had to hand him over to the Qianyu Guard in front of the empress dowager.
That night, the emperor dreamed that he was bound by the prime minister and the empress dowager, and watched helplessly as Xiaoqiang was killed. To alleviate the emperor's nightmares, the empress sent someone to fetch Xiaoqiang. On the other hand, Yan Zhang Yun ordered Xiaoqiang to stay in the same room with him tonight, and even provided a grass mat for him. Xiaoqiang made all kinds of excuses to leave, when a eunuch suddenly said the emperor was gravely ill and forcibly took Xiaoqiang away. Xiaoqiang then administered medicine to the emperor per the empress' orders, and was again taken away by Yan Zhang Yun afterwards.
At dawn, I analyzed the current situation - the emperor was gravely ill, I had offended both the empress and the empress dowager, and the only one I could rely on now was Yan Zhang Yun. Yan Zhang Yun gave Xiaoqiang an antidote and asked if he still resented the emperor, since the emperor didn't save him and almost got him executed. Xiaoqiang said the emperor had no choice, and expressed a lot of sympathy for the emperor, which made Yan Zhang Yun agree with his perspective.
At night, Xiaoqiang took the opportunity to escape, but was immediately caught by Yan Zhang Yun. Since he couldn't escape, he decided to secretly take the antidote while Yan Zhang Yun was asleep, and pretended to be just tucking him in when he was discovered.
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