The Prince of Donghai's Estate, the bridal chamber.
Red candles burned brightly, and embroidered mandarin-duck quilts adorned the bed. Every window was covered with bright red double-happiness characters.
Lianshan Xin and Qi Shiyun sat side by side on the edge of the bed, their scarlet wedding robes gleaming in the candlelight.
If one ignored the contents of their voice transmissions, the scene was quite beautiful.
"A-Xin, did the Prince of Donghai drink that cup of wine just now?" Qi Shiyun asked.
"He did," Lianshan Xin confirmed. "I saw it with my own eyes. Jiang Buping's incense poison, plus Liu Chen's rather useless poison, will give the Prince of Donghai quite a bitter cup to swallow."
Qi Shiyun breathed a sigh of relief. "We shouldn't have let Liu Chen show off. What if the Prince of Donghai noticed something wrong?"
Lianshan Xin grumbled, "Liu Chen wanted to show off his skills. We couldn't stop him."
He was a Great Grandmaster, after all.
And one who used poison, at that.
It was hard to resist the temptation of experimenting on an imperial family bloodline.
In fact, Old Fei hadn't resisted it before, either. He had secretly administered all sorts of poisons to the Heir Apparent of Prince of Donghai.
Not one of them had worked, though.
"How much effect will the incense poison have on the Prince of Donghai?" Qi Shiyun asked.
Lianshan Xin was a little uncertain. "Hard to say. I can only be sure it'll work, but it won't kill Prince of Donghai on the spot."
"Didn't you use it on the Heir Apparent of Prince of Donghai once before?" Qi Shiyun asked in surprise. "You killed him on the spot last time." "That's different. There are tricks I dared use on the heir apparent that I wouldn't dare use