“You want to kill me.”
Concubine Dong instinctively took two steps back and looked at Ah Man with scrutiny.
"If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have to give you medicine. I would have just left you in this fire."
"But you are right. I fed you Zui Bei Chun. If you dare to go back on your word after you go out, you'd better die."
After hearing Ah Man say that it was Zui Beichun, Concubine Dong felt relieved. When she looked at Ah Man, she was much less guarded.
Ah Man approached Concubine Dong, raised her hand to drape the quilt over a corner of Concubine Dong, and pushed her towards the fire.
"No, it will burn me, and my face too. You have to protect my face."
Concubine Dong's screams could not be heard clearly in the fire. Of course, Ah Man didn't want to care about Concubine Dong's clothes and face, so she almost dragged Concubine Dong out of the fire.
Ah Man threw the quilt with flames on it to the ground, and Concubine Dong finally came to her senses. She touched her face and shouted, "My face is burned. Go find the imperial physician."
"Shouldn't the Imperial Concubine be most worried about Zui Beichun's poison?"
Ah Man couldn't help but remind the already confused Concubine Dong. Concubine Dong glared at her and stopped talking. She buried her hands in her sleeves and quietly reached towards her waist.
As soon as her hand touched the slightly cool little bottle, her wrist was held by Ah Man. Then, her soft little hand reached to Concubine Dong's waist and took out the white jade bottle.
"Give it back to me, this is mine." Concubine Dong shouted anxiously when she saw that Zui Beichun's antidote was held in A'man's hand.
Ah Man looked at Concubine Dong, and the smile on her lips blossomed in the firelight. She turned her head and ordered the eunuch beside her: "Take me to the third prince's bedroom."
“I dare not, I am from Zhuoyao Palace…” the young eunuch glanced at Concubine Dong who had a ferocious look not far away and said in a low voice.
"The Third Prince is waiting for this antidote to save his life. Are you sure you don't want to take me with you? If we delay, the Emperor will kill you."
"Miss, please spare me. If I send you there, the Imperial Concubine will kill me."
The young eunuch didn't even dare to look at Concubine Dong. Now everyone could see that Concubine Dong hated the woman in front of her who was dressed as a young eunuch.
Ah Man glanced at the palace maids and eunuchs around Concubine Dong and couldn't help but sigh. The palace maids and eunuchs in Zhuoyao Palace might have lost their conscience under the oppression of Concubine Dong.
Ah Man turned around and left. Without anyone to lead the way, she still had her mouth open, so she would always be able to find Murong Kai's bedroom.
But she had just taken two steps when she heard Concubine Dong shouting hysterically: "Stop her and take the antidote from her hand."
Concubine Dong was also poisoned by Zuibeichun, so naturally she couldn't let Ah Man take away the only antidote.
Ah Man looked at Concubine Dong in anger. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a majestic voice in her ear: "I want to see who dares to stop her."
As soon as the voice fell, the eunuchs, palace maids and guards, who were originally at a loss, knelt on the ground respectfully and shouted "Long live the Queen".
Dressed in a black brocade robe, with a soaring phoenix blazing in the firelight, she slowly walked up to Ah Man, smiled lovingly, and said softly, "My child, you have worked hard."
"Your Majesty, you shouldn't have come."
There was sincere gratitude in Ah Man's voice. She didn't expect the Queen to come. The Queen had helped her a lot before.
She told herself that Concubine Dong was once Concubine Jin's maid. The fire in the Zhuoyao Palace was caused by the Queen so that she could get the antidote smoothly.
She did all these things secretly, but now that she came out to escort me away, it was equivalent to standing against Concubine Dong.
She knew that the emperor doted on Concubine Dong. He had no principles and no bottom line. If the queen took any action, she would inevitably put herself in an embarrassing situation.
"I am the Empress of the Emperor, and I was conferred the title by the Grand Empress Dowager. If I can't even protect the Emperor's offspring, then what use am I?"
The queen smiled, and her expression was calm when she looked at the people around her, but the aura of the queen in her words was intimidating.
(End of this chapter)