"Your condition has been neglected for too long, so treatment will be slow. Take these medicines home and start with them, then return to see me in a month."
"A… a month?" Du Concubine's face turned pale as she saw the long list Gu Youyou had written, and she stammered, not daring to take it.
Gu Youyou pushed the list into her hands and said, "A month is nothing. You're still young, Du Concubine. Perhaps after taking the medicine for a year or two, you could recover. But if you were older, it would be even more troublesome to treat."
"Ah…? One or two years?" So a month really wasn't a long time.
"Yes, this is about the important matter of having children. You can't be careless. Take it three times a day, without fail. Otherwise, you might never be able to have children in your lifetime."