Seeing that Li Chengxiang had awakened, Yan Wanqing ceased speaking.
Opening his eyes, Li Chengxiang immediately tried to rise from the Imperial Consort's couch upon seeing the Empress and Yan Wanqing behind her, only to be firmly pressed down by Yan Wanqing.
"Lie down, the medicine has not yet been fully applied."
Tears filled Li Chengxiang's eyes, and she nodded, choking back sobs as she lay down to let the Palace Attendant continue to apply the medicine.
As for the girls outside the door, who could not hear the sounds within, they knelt under the fierce sun, and soon, some started to sway from lack of strength.
Some even fainted outright, collapsing to the ground.
Seeing this, an eunuch by the Empress's side didn't even bat an eyelid before he instructed a Palace Maid to fetch a pot of tea. He began pouring the tea onto the face of a girl who had fainted, who screamed and opened her eyes as soon as the tea touched her.
