Who Cares

50

Chapter 50 Choice

Inside the Ganquan Palace, Ye Zhen’s face was pale, her lips were chapped while she was lying on the bed. If it wasn’t for the slight heaving of her chest, she looked like a corpse. The two palace maids knelt beside the bed to guard at all time, for fear that if they made a mistake, Jieyu niangniang would die.

After a while, Yong He came in with a bowl of soup medicine, and whispered, “Niangniang, wake up, it’s time to drink the medicine.”

Ye Zhen slowly woke up, her dispirited eyes unconsciously stared at the bed curtain, and it took a while to figure out when and where it was. With the help of the palace maid, she managed to sit up halfway, coughing, “Has the emperor visited This Palace today?” She was asleep for sixteen hours a day, afraid she missed that person’s arrival.

Yong He’s face darkened slightly, and she said cautiously, “Reporting to Niangniang, the emperor is busy with government affairs, and he doesn’t have any spare time. However, this servant have already sent the news that your condition is a little better. Presumably after this busy period over, the emperor should be here.”

“Really?” Ye Zhen smiled bitterly, “He won’t come when This Palace is terminally ill, and he won’t come if I gets better. Yong He, you don’t have to coax This Palace.” At this point, she waved her hand to dismiss other people, then continued, “Now finally understand the weight of This Palace in his heart. For seven years, even if you cover a stone, even if it’s not melting, you can still get a little bit of warmth. But he is good, saying that he will turn his face, he really turns his face. Indeed the monarch are ruthless. This Palace sacrificed her life to stay with him, but really don’t know if it’s right or wrong.”

“Niangniang, don’t let your imagination runs wild, it’s important to quickly raise your body !” Seeing that there was no one around, Yong He immediately took out a pale red pill from her cuff and stuffed it into her master’s palm. Ye Zhen shook it slightly, swallowed it while coughing with her head down, and then took a small sip of the soup medicine.

When the master took the antidote, Yong He whispered, “Niangniang, you are far from the point of hopelessness. The emperor has no children. If you give birth to the eldest son first, the Ye family will be able to recover. Therefore, your top priority right now is to prepare for pregnancy, when the remaining poison in your body is exhausted, this servant will prepare a few more decoctions for nourishing the womb, let you drink it every day, and in less than two months then you can conceive a child.”

After Ye Zhen drank the last sip of the soup, and said helplessly, “The emperor never touches This Palace, how can This Palace get pregnant?”

“Niangniang, you have never sleep together?” Yong He was so shocked that she almost shattered the medicine bowl. She only knew that the emperor never stayed in Ganquan Palace, but he also never stayed in other palaces. During the day, he often came, and occasionally let her retreat to talk to niangniang in the inner hall alone. As short as two to three quarters of an hour, as long as most of the day, it was impossible to do nothing, right?

Under the suspicious eyes of her confidant, Ye Zhen finally poured out the most embarrassing secret hidden in the deepest part of her heart, “This Palace and the emperor has never had a skin-to-skin relationship. Remember the day when he conferred Lord Marquis the marriage, when he patted This Palace’s arm? In seven years, it was the first time he touched This Palace.”

Yong He didn’t dare to ask any more, worried that she would not be able to hold such a huge secret. She thought that since Niangniang could successfully enter the harem and got such a high position, she should have held the emperor in the palm of her hand. But it turned out that the person had never even touched her, and the meticulous care for so many years was really because of that little life-saving grace.