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"Reason?" Marquis Xuanping turned his head to look at her.
Princess Xinyang did not look at Marquis Xuanping but instead gazed outside at the torrential rain. "I discovered he was ill, afflicted with a grave disease causing unceasing pain throughout his body. No one could cure him, from the imperial physicians to the wandering doctors of the streets, not even relieve the slightest bit of his agony. The imperial physicians declared his internal organs were all failing, and he would not live past a year."
"But a year has passed, and he's yet alive. Any ordinary man with such a severe illness would have long succumbed, but he cannot die even if he wishes to. Occasionally, I wonder if perhaps heaven is watching, and his retribution has come?"
