"Your Majesty, since they want to see us now, let them see us! Anyway, the Empress is under your control now. If you tell her to go west, she would never dare to go east!"
Lanqin nodded, but she was still worried. After all, the Empress disliked her so much. What if she didn't do as she expected and told the truth to the high-ranking officials...
Seeing that Lanqin was still hesitant, Cui Niang advised, "Your Majesty, please don't worry! The Empress is now completely dependent on her medicine. We can use the medicine to threaten her. If she tells the truth, we will stop supplying her with medicine and make her wish she were dead."
Lanqin thought it was a good idea. She knew the power of opium and had seen many TV dramas about families being torn apart and destroyed because of it.
"Cui Niang, when the Empress leaves Jingren Palace, remember to tidy it up perfectly. Don't leave a single trace or handle, understand?"
Cui Niang responded, and after Lan Qin finished explaining everything, Cui Niang left. Lan Qin sat alone in her room, lost in thought, wondering how she had come to this.
When she first transmigrated, she was always flustered and relied on others to handle everything. She didn't have many ulterior motives and was often deceived. But now she has become ruthless and feels no guilt towards anyone. Lanqin feels like she is the former empress, going further and further down the wrong path.
Inside Jingren Palace, the Empress tossed and turned on the bed, the food beside her spilled onto the floor. She kept muttering, "Give me medicine, give me medicine...please give me medicine, I beg you..."
The old nanny, who had lived in the palace for most of her life, didn't know what was going on. It didn't seem like she was sick, nor did it seem like she was having a tantrum. In short, she looked a bit delirious and crazy.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing? Don't scare us! If something happens to you, who knows what Cui Niang will do to us!" Two maids knelt on the ground, their expressions panicked...
"Go and fetch the imperial physician!" one nanny said to another. "No, Her Majesty said that no one is allowed to leave Jingren Palace!" The Empress's groans from the bed seemed to shatter eardrums.
The Empress had already gotten out of bed, her face pale. She grabbed a nanny by the collar and said, "Go and find Lanqin for me... I feel so bad, I feel so bad... Help me, ahhh...!" As she spoke, a tear or two appeared in the corner of her eye.
The captured nanny screamed in fright, and the Empress, at this moment, was like a rabid dog, pouncing on someone at any moment.
"Go quickly...go quickly, call Cui Niang over!" the nanny cried out, trembling. "Yes, yes...yes, I'll go right now!" another replied quietly and loudly, rushing out of Jingren Palace.
"The Empress is gone, she's gone!" The old woman pulled away from the Empress's grasp and quietly applied pressure to her back. Looking at the once arrogant and powerful Empress, now disheveled and unkempt, the old woman felt a pang of heartache.
The nanny helped the Empress sit on the bed. Hearing the nanny's words, the Empress calmed down for a moment, then leaned on the edge of the bed and breathed heavily. But her heart was aching as if bitten by ants, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead from the effort she was putting in.
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