The Empress dowager blinked then shakily said, "I want to be alone."
Song mama knit her brows and wanted to protest but the Empress dowager frowned at her and ordered, "Leave." So she hesitantly let her be and waited outside the doors, listening for any commotion.
The Empress dowager has been quite unstable recently. She always got angry whenever she met with the monks. Although she had become more controlled since the whipping incident and did not lash out like that anymore. She thought she was finally getting better until a few weeks ago when she found the Empress dowager collapsed in her room after taking one of her own poisons.
