Chapter 89

89 Only God can help

” What do you mean by that?” When the Empress dowager heard Liu Hui Ying’s words, she couldn’t help but frown. ” What are you trying to say? That little minx from the Ji family will never be able to recover?”

” That’s right your majesty, after what happened to sister... I learned a little about physiology and poisons because I too hate the Ji family just as much as you do, and I can assure you that concubine Ji isn’t blessed to have a child, if you don’t believe me then you can ask the imperial physician.”

Earlier when she was facing Ji Yu, Liu Hui Ying has taken a good look at the facial features of Ji Yu. Even though Ji Yu was indeed very pretty, her eyes were slightly sunken and her cheeks were hollowed instead of full, to others she was pretty and cute but in terms of the mystic arts, she was born with a physique of a sinner.

Most probably she harmed a child in her last life and which was why she was destined to have no children in this life.

The Empress dowager and Liu Dong Ming exchanged a look with each other before Liu Dong Ming motioned the eunuch serving under him and asked him to bring the imperial physician.

Now that the Empress Dowager was calm she asked her mammy to serve some tea to Liu Hui Ying, earlier she was too agitated when she found out that they have lost such a great opportunity but now that she has lost some of her steam, she was calmer than before.

By the time Mammy Shi finished preparing the tea, the eunuch serving under Liu Dong Ming returned with the imperial physician.

” I greet, her majesty the Empress dowager, I greet, the royal left prime minister, and I greet, her highness, the Empress,” the imperial physician was dressed in a pale white robe with navy blue pants. He bowed his head in front of Liu Hui Ying and the others one by one before he cupped his hands and knelt in front of the Empress Dowager. ” Your majesty, this humble official is here to serve you.”

” There is no need for such a big greeting, you can be at ease,” Empress Dowager waved her hand before she blinked her eyes slightly and Mammy Shi went to stand outside the room together with the eunuch serving Liu Dong Ming.

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Only then did the Empress dowager turn to look at the imperial physician and asked imperiously, ” What is the condition of Concubine Ji’s womb, can it recover in due time?”

The imperial physician has been working in the palace for years and of course, he understood that the reason the Empress Dowager was asking this wasn’t that she wanted to know about the condition of concubine Ji but instead it was because she wanted to know whether or not Ji Yu will be able to recover or not.

” Answering her majesty, the womb of concubine Ji was harmed severely by the poison that was fed to her on daily basis,” replied the imperial physician with his head lowered and his hands cupped. ” The poison seemed to have been given to her from morning till night, so even though it was administrative in a relatively short amount, I am afraid it’s too late for concubine Ji to recover.”

” I see,” the empress dowager nodded as she waved her hand and excused the imperial physician who lowered his head, thanked her for her grace and walked out of the room.

No sooner did he walk out of the room, he was handed a pouch of something heavy by mammy Shi who nodded at him and said, ” You know what you need to do Physician Zhu, do not dare to betray her majesty.”

” I wouldn’t even dare to,” replied the imperial physician as he lowered his head and then turned around to leave.

The hush money was kept securely in his pocket.

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” Hahaha! This is what I call karma!” The Empress dowager smacked her hand on the table in front of her seat and guffawed loudly, she looked rather thrilled and amused by the confirmation. ” This will teach a lesson to those arrogant dogs of the Ji family, humph, they had quite fun when our family’s daughter was harmed by them. .. now it’s our time.”

She turned to look at Liu Dong Ming who was now silently slurping his tea looking leisurely as she said, ” You know what to do, don’t you Brother Dong Ming?”

” Don’t worry, your majesty,” Liu Dong Ming replied in a soft voice, his expression calm and serene as he picked up the snow cake from his plate and took a bite of it. ” Tomorrow morning at this time, the Ji family will rue the day when they killed our niece.”

And as she looked at the man who was sitting calmly without the oppressive air from before, Liu Hui Ying came to the conclusion, she has to stay away from this man at all costs.

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” What do you mean you cannot do anything?” Grand Dowager Empress shrieked in agony and frustration as she looked at the best imperial physician of the palace. ” You haven’t even tried yet how can you say that there is nothing that you can do huh? Do something before raising your hands in surrender!”

The imperial physician bowed his head and knocked it heavily on the floor. He knew that if he offended anyone present in this room, he will have to hand his head on a silver platter, so he was very careful in choosing his words. “It’s not that I haven’t tried, your majesty ...there is nothing to try left in Concubine Ji’s womb. It has been poisoned beyond the point of saving... I am afraid that at this point only some godly miracle can save her.”

Zhai Tianyu who has heard these same words over and over again, snatched the sword from Yu Lingyun’s side and then aimed it at the neck of the imperial physician and said, “Then why don’t I send you the god? You can ask for godly assistance from him them if you are this incapable.”

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Last update of this month can I get some gifts and powerstones Orz.