After Qianxia finally finished treating Nan Zhiyun's wounds, Nan Zhiyun drifted off to sleep again, feeling dizzy and disoriented. Having developed a high fever, Nan Zhiyun was somewhat disoriented.

In a daze, Nan Zhiyun seemed to hear the imperial physician saying something like, "Your Majesty, Consort Nan's high fever just won't go down..."

She desperately wanted to wake up, but she felt like she couldn't open her eyes, and her body alternated between feeling cold and hot.

Meanwhile, Yu Jingchen's visit to Ya Jing Ju today has caused quite a stir in the harem, especially after it was said that Yu Jingchen personally executed some people who had neglected Nan Zhiyun, and also sent someone to find the imperial physician, who has been staying there without coming out.

This has caused a lot of speculation in the harem. Logically speaking, Yu Jingchen should dislike Nan Zhiyun very much, after all, she was sent to the Shenxing Division for ten days on some fabricated charges.

Nan Zhiyun was punished with fifty bamboo lashes for such a trivial matter, and her back was covered in blood. So they didn't quite understand why Yu Jingchen had gone over there again.

Was it another deliberate act of torture? But the symptoms and the manner didn't seem right. If it was out of pity, that was even more unlikely, since he had personally ordered these people to be punished. Or was he critically ill? After all, he had only been in the Censorate for ten days before being subjected to fifty more blows; he probably really didn't have much time left to breathe.

But surely His Majesty wouldn't go to such lengths? Even when punishing servants, he'd be there to stand guard; he's never one for such formalities. Another possibility is that the Empress Dowager is about to return to the palace. Nan Zhiyun was raised by the Empress Dowager and has always been favored, so His Majesty is perhaps considering her feelings? But aren't His Majesty and the Empress Dowager always outwardly friendly but inwardly at odds?

The concubines in the harem couldn't understand it, but no matter what the reason, they didn't think that Nan Zhiyun would pose any threat to them. As long as she was still a member of the Nan family, Nan Zhiyun would basically have no chance of turning her life around. So no one was afraid of Nan Zhiyun because of this.

But just when everyone was taking it all for granted, an imperial edict arrived, catching them completely off guard. Yu Jingchen had promoted Nan Zhiyun to the rank of Jieyu and moved her to He'an Palace. This made the concubines in the harem even more confused.

"Consort Min, what does His Majesty mean by this?" A palace maid beside Consort Min asked while fanning her.

"I underestimated Nan Zhiyun. She can even get promoted after being punished," Min Jieyu said disdainfully. She had disliked Nan Zhiyun since she was a young lady. In the eyes of the high-ranking officials in the capital, she and Nan Zhiyun were the most outstanding women.

But she always felt that Nan Zhiyun was superior to her in every way. Wherever Nan Zhiyun was, no one else could see her.

She liked His Majesty, so she went to great lengths to climb to the position of Jieyu. But Nan Zhiyun entered the palace as one of the four consorts. Why? Was it because she had the Empress Dowager's protection? But even with the Empress Dowager's support, so what? His Majesty still disliked her.

In just one year, she went from being one of the Four Consorts to a mere Talented Lady. She had finally gotten the chance to step on her, but instead, she resorted to these despicable means. In her eyes, all of this was nothing more than Nan Zhiyun's self-inflicted suffering.

Min Jieyu clenched the handkerchief in her hand tightly. One day she would climb over Nan Zhiyun's head, and at that time she would repay Nan Zhiyun tenfold or a hundredfold for all the humiliation she had suffered. Today was just the beginning.

"Nan Zhiyun, you just wait!" Consort Min's face was contorted with rage. Of course, outsiders wouldn't know what was going on here, but the other concubines in the harem wouldn't take Nan Zhiyun seriously either.

It was already dark, and Nan Zhiyun's fever still wouldn't go down, causing Qianxia great anxiety. The imperial physician was also covered in sweat, because Yu Jingchen's face was now... frighteningly dark and gloomy.

Because the fever wouldn't go down, Yu Jingchen sent people to the Imperial Hospital to find many imperial physicians, but none of them could help Nan Zhiyun bring down the fever.

Just then, someone outside announced that the Imperial Concubine had arrived. Yu Jingchen had never established an Empress, and the Imperial Concubine held the highest rank in the harem, so she handled all matters, large and small.

In his previous life, he didn't come to see Nan Zhiyun. In the end, he had no choice but to have Nan Zhiyun's maidservant kneel directly at the entrance of the Imperial Concubine's palace.

After learning of this matter, the Imperial Concubine came to see me. In truth, even if I hadn't gone to investigate at the time, he was aware of some of the happenings in the harem. However, he merely said coldly, "It's up to the Imperial Concubine to decide."

Afterwards, the Imperial Concubine sent someone to summon the Imperial Physician. Yu Jingchen remembered that when the Empress Dowager returned, Nan Zhiyun's health was not yet fully recovered.

There is still more than a month before the Empress Dowager returns, so you can imagine how serious Nan Zhiyun's illness is.