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  "There's no more poison." Gao Jin said abruptly, but Rong Jingze and the Emperor both understood. There was no more poison; all of it had been given to the Emperor to eat.

  Although he had always been unwilling to believe that Gao Jin was sent by the other party, at this time the emperor could no longer continue to deceive himself.

  "Why, am I not good to you......" The emperor asked softly. Although he was already middle-aged, this was the first time he had loved someone so much that he wanted to give him the best and even take him as his concubine. But Gao Jin refused all of it.

  Gao Jin's reason was simple, he didn't want that kind of life.

  As for this, the emperor did not force him at all. Gao Jin liked whatever he wanted, and he didn't force him in the slightest. Even he felt that Gao Jin's love for him was not one bit less than his own.

  But the most impossible and unbelievable thing still happened. Gao Jin poisoned him.

  For the past month, Gao Jin had been frowning every day, feeling anxious and depressed, and could hardly eat three meals a day. The person he used to care for, who was as delicate as jade, had rapidly become thin and haggard.

  How could Emperor not care, even his own brother's big wedding, he just hastily went to drink a cup of wedding wine and then hastily returned.

  Gao Jin's change in attitude was quite astonishing, but the emperor didn't mind as long as he was willing to eat something, even if it was together. He just didn't expect that his soup had been poisoned.

  Despite this, the emperor still had no hatred in his heart. He even wondered if he was wrong about something, or if he was unwilling from the start.

  "There's nothing wrong with you, it's just that I shouldn't have come." Gao Jin cried in front of the Emperor for the first time. "We were not destined to be together, this life is a debt I owe you, and can only be repaid in the next life."

  "No, no......"

  "Fei'er, what's wrong with you?" Next to Rong Jingze was feeling the pulse and looking at his eyes, afraid that Yin Ruofei had been poisoned. Seeing Yin Ruofei wake up from his daze, he anxiously asked.

  "Master Uncle, Master Uncle..." Yin Ruofei grasped Yong Jingze's arm with a hurried tone.

  "What's wrong?" Rong Jingze saw Yin Ruofei's tension and became even more anxious. His imperial brother had already been poisoned, if something happened to Little Fei too, wouldn't that be taking his life?!

  "Master Shifu, Gao brother, Gao brother he is..."

  "Don't be in a hurry, what's wrong with Gao Jin?"

  "He, he must be my uncle's kid!" Yin Ruofei finally said, and the other two were stunned.

  "Your uncle? What do you mean?" The emperor's eyebrows rose, he knew that Gao Jin was an orphan, but wasn't Yin Ruofei's uncle the son of the Lin family? The Lin family's traitors had already been punished, the entire Lin household had been executed, if Gao Jin was a child of the Lin family, then...

  The emperor's face turned pale, "Are you going to avenge your father?"

  Three people looked at Gao Jin with tension, but Gao Jin shook his head in confusion, "I don't know whose child I am, and I have no relation to the Lin family. However, Xiao Fei you..."

  "Big brother, you must be the child of my uncle's family." Yin Ruofei breathed heavily. Before his uncle Lin Zhenzu died, he had two wishes: one was to take good care of his cousin Lin Yun'er, and the other was to find his eldest son who was taken away.

  Yin Ruofei has always been quietly searching, but when this child was taken away, there were no tokens on his body, nor any marks, and it couldn't even be confirmed whether the child was alive or dead. After all, those two illegitimate children of the Lin family are not good things. In order to seize the Lin family, cutting off the direct bloodline is not impossible.

  "Fei'er, are you certain?" If Gao Jin is indeed a descendant of the Lin family, then they would be relatives too. Moreover, back then, Lin Zhenzu had rendered meritorious service by exposing the traitor, and although he had taken good care of Lin Yun'er in the palace, if Lin Zhenzu had an heir, he couldn't let his line be cut off either. But Little Fei's reasoning here doesn't hold water.

  But his imperial brother was poisoned by Gao Jiong, this absolutely cannot be tolerated.

  "I only met my uncle once, and that was when he was emaciated and on the verge of death..." Yin Ruofei began to recount his experiences of entering the Lin family and conversing with Lin Zhenzu. To say the least, although Lin Zhenzu's contact with him was brief, Yin Ruofei always felt that the other party was truly a remarkable person, whose appearance may have been haggard, but whose mind was crystal clear, what a pity for this man.

  He remembered when he first met his uncle that year, and also felt a little familiar. Lin Yun'er and Father were Xiao Mu's.

  He saw Lin Zhenzu was thin and bony, while Gao Jin was in his youthful prime at the time, so Yin Ruofei thought this face looked familiar, but didn't think of Gao Jin.

  Now Gao Jin looks like this, no better than Lin Zhenzu back then. So when Yin Ruofei saw him at a glance, he was shocked to find that the father and son looked similar in appearance, at least 70% or 80%, it's just that he had never seen him before.

  "Really...?" Gao Jin's heart was also excited, who would want to be an orphan, who would want to not know who their biological parents are? "Am I really the child of the Lin family?"

  "This... I still want to ask you, what's going on here." Yin Ruofei just felt that the two of them looked too alike, and their ages also matched. When Lin's older cousin was taken away back then, he was only two or three years old, which made him exactly the same age as Gao Shixiong now.

  It's just a matter of appearance and age, although they can match up, Yin Ruofei cannot simply say that Gao Jin is Lin's older cousin, he needs to convince himself and also be able to convince Gao Jin.

  Gao Jin looked at Yin Ruofei for a moment, then looked at the Emperor.

  "Go ahead, I won't blame you for anything." The Emperor had never hated Gao Jin from start to finish and still spoke to him in a gentle tone.

  "Big brother, you don't look well, why don't you lie down first? Gao Jin, give me the antidote."

  "I don't have an antidote, I came here just to poison him." Gao Jin's face turned pale as he shook his head.

  "I'll go and ask the imperial physician to decoct another bowl of medicine." The previous bowl had just been drunk, and the emperor's complexion had obviously improved a lot.

  "Alright." Rong Jingze nodded, and Yin Ruofei flew out to instruct someone before turning back. "Big Brother Shifu, quickly tell us what's going on. If you're really Lin family's cousin, then you don't have any grudges with the Emperor, and you should even be thanking him. Quickly speak the truth, so we can find an antidote." Earlier, Yin Ruofei had also taken the Emperor's pulse, this poison was very sinister, his Shifu's medicine left behind couldn't cure it.

  "Alright, I'll speak." Gao Jin looked at the emperor's unchanging gaze and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He nodded and began to say everything.

  It turned out that Gao Jin was an orphan since childhood, and he didn't know his parents or relatives. He grew up in a small mountain village with several other children who were similar to him.

  As he grew older, Gao Jinna's innate temperament gave him the opportunity to read books, and at the same time, he saw that person, that high and mighty person.

  They called each other master, and this master gave them food to eat, drink, houses to live in, and even invited a teacher to teach them to read books, and invited a martial arts instructor to teach them martial arts.

  Apart from Gao Jin, there were several other children who also studied books, but most of them practiced martial arts. Among them, Gao Jin was the one who studied books the best.

  They have been instilled with a belief since childhood that they are the masters' people, destined to dedicate everything to their masters. They live for the purpose of helping their masters achieve great things.

  This indoctrination lasted until he was in his teens when Gao Jin went down the mountain.

  Life on the mountain was dull and hard to pass, accompanying them were either a ruler or a whip. Those who studied literature were better off, at most they would get a big ruler, locked in a woodshed without food or water. As for those children who practiced martial arts, they would be beaten with a board or whipped.

  A child familiar to Gao Jin was once flogged until his body was covered in blood and bruises for not meeting the master's requirements during martial arts training. Later, he died from lack of medical treatment. This made others tremble with fear, and they didn't dare say or ask much, but instead buried their heads in diligent study.

  Until he went down the mountain, Gao Jin's heavy heart finally relaxed a little. It wasn't until he met that group of friends that he truly walked out of the shadows and lived a fulfilling life.

  During this time his life was free, but every two months, someone would send him a letter and entrust him with some tasks, although at first they were simple, such as getting along with so-and-so.

  These are still simple, Gao Jin is a person who has always been very affable and has real talent and learning, many people are willing to come and go with him.

  He also cherished these friends, Sun Mr. who appreciated him, Yin Ruofei who regarded him as an elder brother, and Xiling Hao who helped him establish the academy together.

  He increasingly did not want to receive those letters, he was afraid that his master's mission would make him lose these friendships that had never been since childhood.

  Afterwards, he came in third and obtained imperial recognition, the two of them even...

  However, he was not let off, but instead was subjected to even more severe demands. Even because of his several times of resistance, the few companions he had in his childhood were all harmed. Forced by circumstances, he poured poison into the soup.

  They cannot live together, but they are willing to die together. Unfortunately, the emperor took a pill brought by Rong Jingze, which can eliminate some of the toxicity, thus saving the emperor's life. It was also because the emperor knew he had been poisoned that he knocked over Gao Jin's bowl of soup, preventing him from being poisoned as well.

  By this time, Rong Jingze and Yin Ruofei had fully understood that Gao Jin, the so-called master, was definitely Wang Wu. Only such a person would carefully plan to take their brothers' lives.

  "Brother, you must be the child of the Lin family." Yin Ruofei hugged Gao Jin tightly, tears streaming down her face. What kind of sin had the Lin family committed to have such things happen to them?

  "Are you sure?"

  "If you were from somewhere else, I wouldn't be so sure, but since you're in Lord Wang's hands, at least 90% of the hope is that you are indeed my uncle's child." Yin Ruofei wiped away her tears. "Do you know that a few years ago, the Lin family was completely exterminated? Those two illegitimate sons of the Lin family were actually Lord Wang's people, and it took him several years to gather all the evidence."

  Gao Jin nodded, the Lin family's affairs were so big that he naturally knew about them. He only knew at first that the two sons of the Lin family were treacherous officials who bought and sold official positions, acted recklessly without restraint, and even dared to assassinate the current crown prince.

  It's just that I didn't expect there to be another world inside.

  "My own father is..."

  "Your father is my uncle, they had only two children, a boy and a girl. They were persecuted by that family of scoundrels, the eldest son was taken away and sold, the daughter was imprisoned at home. My grandparents were also suffering from strange poison, living worse than dead." Yin Ruofei's eyes were filled with hatred, "And you, are the child they had taken away back then. But not as those two scoundrels said, sold, but sent to the rebel king instead."

  "How hateful! I've actually taken the enemy for my father!"

  "Big brother, our top priority now is to find an antidote as soon as possible. We can't let those who are dear to us suffer and bring joy to our enemies!"