Ever since Liu Mingxin transmigrated into this book, she had decided she wouldn’t be that cannon-fodder supporting female character.
She hadn’t wanted to get involved in the lives of the male and female leads either.
But who would have thought that even if she didn’t provoke these people, Ye Shaohua just had to keep shoving herself in front of her again and again.
The Emperor was naturally very concerned about the Empress Dowager’s condition. He had also looked into Liu Mingxin’s background. The main reason he had sent Consort Xian down to Jiangnan this time was for Liu Mingxin’s sake—who would have thought Consort Xian would bring Ye Shaohua back instead.
Now, hearing Liu Mingxin mention a cerebral hemorrhage, he didn’t understand what that meant, but seeing how confident Liu Mingxin looked, he simply let her go in and followed her inside himself.
Ye Shaohua frowned. Liu Mingxin’s assistant and maid, Jiu’er, walked over and shoved Ye Shaohua aside, even throwing her a smug look.
Ye Shaohua was speechless.
Cerebral hemorrhage? Bleeding caused by the rupture of blood vessels within the brain tissue, not from external trauma.
What was there not to know about that?
In modern times, this illness required cerebrospinal fluid tests, routine blood tests, and neuroimaging exams—not to mention specialized research and discussion by several experts—before a conclusion could be reached.
Liu Mingxin had only gone by what she had seen and heard, and she was already making a rash judgment about the Empress Dowager’s condition.
Never mind whether it was a cerebral hemorrhage—even if it were, the success rate of such surgery in modern times was extremely low. In ancient times, was she really going to crack open the Empress Dowager’s skull and drain the blood out?
Hearing Liu Mingxin’s lofty words, Ye Shaohua nearly laughed out of sheer anger—but she really couldn’t bring herself to laugh.
Because she had discovered that the poison the Empress Dowager had been stricken with was very similar to what Chu Yunmo and the others had.
This poison was extremely aggressive. One or two people would have been one thing, but even the Empress Dowager had been poisoned with it—this had to be a premeditated political coup.
And Ye Bozhong had become the sacrificial victim of this coup.
Meanwhile, Sima Mingchen, who had recommended Ye Shaohua, saw that the Emperor wouldn’t even glance at her. His expression shifted. He knew how superb Ye Shaohua’s medical skills were—just look at his mother and his fourth brother.
But those eunuchs and the Emperor simply didn’t trust the daughter of Imperial Physician Ye, who had once made a mistake before.
Sima Mingchen wanted to say something, but his status in the palace was too low—he had no right to speak at all.
If not for his fourth brother, whether he and his mother could even stay safely in the palace would be questionable.
Even after all these years, he had grown used to it.
But seeing Ye Shaohua standing there, he still felt terribly uncomfortable.
Little did he know, Ye Shaohua wasn’t worried at all.
Liu Mingxin had already been inside the Empress Dowager’s bedchamber for some time. At first, she had indeed been full of confidence. Although the Empress Dowager’s cerebral hemorrhage surgery was difficult in the eyes of others, she wasn’t particularly afraid.
Because she had a secret—after transmigrating, she had gained a cheat ability: a spatial spirit spring.
This spirit spring was incredibly useful. It strengthened the body and could make a person recover quickly. This was also why she had always looked down on Ye Shaohua’s wound medicine.
But she knew this spirit spring couldn’t appear in front of others, so she only gave it to her son, Liu Lin.
She had also instructed Liu Lin not to tell anyone else.
Her son naturally listened to her—he hadn’t even told Sima Mingxuan.
Liu Lin had indeed grown into a genius. Otherwise, how could a five-year-old child have quickly become such a powerful martial arts master?
But after she horrifyingly cut open the Empress Dowager’s skull, she found that she couldn’t see any of the internal details at all.
Her hands couldn’t help but tremble.
This… how was this possible?!
At the same time, she noticed that the Empress Dowager’s pale complexion was beginning to turn a blue-black color.
Her main specialty was cardiovascular medicine. She had no knowledge of ancient poisons whatsoever. Actually, she didn’t need to study them in modern times either—because no matter what poison it was, you just took it to the hospital for testing and you’d know.
Modern times were just too convenient.
And that had caused those doctors to gradually forget some of the things their ancestors knew.
Ancient physicians could tell what poison someone had been afflicted with just by looking at their complexion and taking their pulse. They had the properties of poisons and herbal medicines right at their fingertips.
Liu Mingxin was no exception.
Things had gone beyond her expectations, and she was naturally shocked. Although the Empress Dowager’s wound had the spirit spring, it still left a terrifying gash, and the snow-white cloth was stained with glaring blood.
The Emperor certainly wasn’t comfortable letting Liu Mingxin be alone, so he waited outside the screen. There were also several imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Academy inside.
The moment they saw the Empress Dowager’s condition, they immediately panicked.
“This… the poison has attacked the heart!” The imperial physicians remembered Ye Shaohua’s words. Now, seeing the Empress Dowager like this, they went to check her pulse and put their hands near her nose to check for breath.
After checking, their legs gave out.
Seeing the Emperor rush in, they didn’t say a word and knelt down, utterly exhausted.
“Your Majesty, this humble servant deserves death ten thousand times over!” The imperial physicians knocked their heads against the ground, their eyes completely gray. “The Empress Dowager was indeed poisoned, just as Miss Ye said. The poison has already attacked the heart. We… are powerless.”
Although they weren’t the primary physicians, they had followed Liu Mingxin inside. Now that the Empress Dowager had ended up like this, they would naturally be caught in the Emperor’s wrath as well. They likely wouldn’t survive three days.
They only hoped the Emperor wouldn’t vent his anger on their families this time.
Although Liu Mingxin’s spirit spring was good—it could heal the Empress Dowager’s wound and speed up her blood circulation—
She didn’t realize that faster blood circulation, in the case of other illnesses or a cerebral hemorrhage, would have left the Empress Dowager perfectly fine.
But unfortunately… the Empress Dowager had been poisoned. The poison that had originally been stagnant in her body was carried by the unimpeded blood circulation directly into her vital organs!
“Thud—”
The Emperor knelt before the Empress Dowager’s bed, his eyes already red. “Mother… Mother!”
Originally, although the Empress Dowager had been in a coma for the past few months, she had at least been stable. But now… it had come to this.
“Someone! Drag them all out for me!” The Emperor clenched his fists and looked at Liu Mingxin, his expression completely distorted.
Everyone knew that not a single imperial physician present today would escape.
Such was the heart of an emperor.
Unfathomable.
“Starting to lash out again, are we?” Just as the imperial guards were about to drag Liu Mingxin and the imperial physicians away, a voice suddenly came from outside the door.
