When Ning Chen came out after washing up, everyone was talking in low voices. "What are you all talking about?" he asked curiously.

The woman emperor looked at him anxiously and hesitated. "The yang gu is in you too."

Ning Chen thought about it for a good while, then his face changed. "The yang gu, as in the Yin-Yang Gu?"

Mu Zhaozhao gave a slight nod. "That's right! Whoever planted the gu is very cunning. If they used a Yin-Yang Gu, they must have known the yin gu fears a tiger's presence—and you keep a tiger.

They exposed the yin gu on purpose to hide the yang gu... It was a clever move, I'll give them that. Even I didn't spot it.

This person doesn't only want to harm Her Majesty and my lord prince's other women. They want my lord prince's life."

Ning Chen's face darkened. "High Priestess, if you could get the yin gu out of me, surely you can get the yang gu out too?"

Mu Zhaozhao shook her head. "The yang gu and the yin gu are completely different. To get the yang gu out, you need someone whose vitality is even stronger than my lord prince's.

My lord prince has the strongest vitality of anyone I've ever met. Finding someone stronger than you won't be easy."

Ning Chen asked urgently, "And if the yang gu can't be gotten out, what happens to me?"

Mu Zhaozhao sighed. "At first, my lord prince will sleep too much, or be overexcited, and his memory will fail fast... Little by little, my lord prince will sleep longer and longer, until in the end his memories are gone, his vitality gives out, and he dies."

Everyone went pale.

Ning Chen was shaken. "My memories gone?"

Mu Zhaozhao nodded. "The yang gu is yang, and men are yang too. My lord prince's vitality is so abundant that the two together produce a yang poison... The poison deranges the mind and throws the memory off, until in the end the memory is wiped out completely."

Every face was grave.

Ning Chen was…