As Li Zhanting had predicted, once the madwoman saw that no one was stopping her, her kowtowing and constant apologies gradually subsided, and she eventually chose to faint.
When Miss Mei came out with the tranquilizer, the madwoman had already collapsed on the ground, blood seeping from the wound on her head, looking horribly gruesome.
"Sigh..." She sighed and, with Li Zhanting's help, lifted the woman onto the sofa.
“You won’t get anything out of her by asking like that. This woman’s episodes are unpredictable. Sometimes she seems to understand what people are saying, but other times she suddenly goes crazy. I didn’t sleep well all night last night because I was taking care of her!” Miss Mei sat on the sofa, rubbing her temples wearily. This was even more of a headache than when she was doing those extremely dangerous missions.
"Asking like that won't get you anything out of her." Li Zhanting was already certain that the woman was faking her unconsciousness.
He stood up, walked to the woman's side, and looked down at her:
"The royal family of Country Y is in chaos and internal turmoil. Everyone says that the Queen's personality has changed drastically since her serious illness. Two days ago, I even discovered a human laboratory in the royal prison. Do you really intend to choose to live a life of ignominy, let someone else take your place, and plunge your people into misery?"
Li Zhanting's words caused Miss Mei, who was standing to the side, to look at him in shock.
Gu Momo, however, looked at the man in front of her with a smile. She knew that if the Queen was really the kind and courageous queen she had met before, she would not choose to endure humiliation after hearing these words.
So she stood up and stood beside Li Zhanting. "Queen, losing once is not terrible. What is terrible is that you are afraid to face it again. Now you can only help you take back your rightful place and restore peace to Y Country."
Mei became increasingly confused as she listened, so she ran over to the two of them and asked, "You don't think she's pretending to be stupid, do you?"
As soon as she finished speaking, the madwoman, who had been keeping her eyes tightly closed, opened them and slowly sat up from the sofa.
Her previously numb and confused eyes suddenly became clear and bright. She looked up at the handsome man and beautiful woman standing in front of her. "Sure enough, nothing can escape Master Ting's eyes."
Mei was truly shocked by what she saw. Although she had suspected that the woman might be faking her madness, she acted so convincingly that she felt too embarrassed to doubt her.
As expected, it has to be Li Zhanting!
“Your Majesty, we have plenty of time today and can listen to you slowly, but let’s treat the injury on your head first,” Gu Momo suggested.
Miss Mei immediately took out the medicine box containing the sedatives.
"Let me do it." Gu Momo took the first-aid kit, sat down next to her, and simply cleaned her wound.
Her movements were very gentle, as if she were afraid of hurting the Queen, and the Queen looked at her careful actions with delight in her eyes.
"Miss Momo, you are still the same as before, you haven't changed at all."
"Really?" Gu Momo chuckled.
"However, the only change is that you now have someone by your side who can protect you." As she spoke, the Queen looked at Li Zhanting beside her, her eyes full of admiration.
"Your Majesty, you're joking," Gu Momo chuckled.
After treating the Queen's wounds, Miss Mei brewed a pot of hot tea, and the group sat down formally.
"Your Majesty, what has happened to you all these years? And who is that person in the palace now?" Gu Momo had too many questions she wanted to ask her.
As the Queen recalled the past, her hands clenched and unclenched involuntarily.
“You all know that I am the Queen, but what you probably don’t know is that my real name is Shao Siran, and I am the eldest daughter of the Shao family in the capital. Back then, my father had a deep friendship with the King of Y Kingdom, so he betrothed me to the prince at the time, and I was renamed Princess Danis. Later, the King passed away, and my husband inherited the throne and became the King, and I became the Queen of Y Kingdom.”
"It's just that our children were still young when the king passed away, so I had to ascend the throne! Do you know how many eyes were on this throne on the eve of the king's death, and how many people wanted to take his place! If I don't ascend the throne, my children will become puppets of powerful ministers, and then the entire palace will no longer be under our control!"
So was she wrong? She was never wrong!
She always put the country first, but some people wanted to seize power!
It doesn't matter if her body is injured, but what about this country!
If she were to hand over her people to another, how would she face her king in the afterlife?!
Gu Momo and Li Zhanting were deeply surprised. The Queen of Y Country was actually from the Shao family in the capital.
The Shao family has many descendants. Because the Shao family requires the continuation of the family line, each son carefully raises daughters. It is said that the most outrageous candidate for heir actually had twelve children.
Aside from the three children born to his wife, the rest were all born to women outside the marriage.
Gu Momo already found it outrageous enough. It's not like the Shao family has a throne to inherit, so what do they need this Feng family feud for!
Unexpectedly, even the royal family of Country Y has members from the Shao family!
And who is this queen to the Shao family?!
"Who is that one in the palace?" Miss Mei couldn't help but ask.
"Her name is Shao Mengying, and she's my younger sister." Shao Siran looked at the blinding sunlight outside the window, her thoughts drifting back to forty-five years ago.
The sun that day was just as bright as it is today, seemingly melting everything in the cold winter. Her nanny took her, then five years old, to play in the snow. She remembers wearing a pink princess dress, and each step she took on the snow left a shallow footprint.
"Young Miss, please be careful, don't run too fast and fall." The nanny followed behind her, panting, afraid that she might accidentally fall.
"Nanny, come quick! The snow here seems even thicker!" Five-year-old Shao Siran turned around and waved happily, but unexpectedly, she actually fell to the ground the next second.
"Ah~" Shao Siran frowned, turned around and saw the person lying on the ground, and screamed in fright.
"Young Miss, did you fall? I told you to slow down. Did you hurt yourself?" The nanny muttered as she rushed over. When she saw the person lying on the ground, she was so startled that she fell on her bottom.
"My God, how... how can there be someone here? Miss, let's go, let's go quickly." The nanny was so frightened that she couldn't speak coherently, but she still forced her trembling body to get up, picked up Shao Siran, and started running.
But before they had even taken a step, the "corpse" let out a weak cry, "Help me...help me..."
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