News of the Palace Maid Sha Li's death quickly spread throughout the palace.
She had gotten up in the middle of the night and soon after, slipped and fell on the steps, hitting the back of her head against the stone staircase. She fell into a coma and bled profusely. By the time she was found, she had already died from excessive blood loss.
Consort Qin was inconsolable with grief and experienced signs of a threatened miscarriage. She refused to let the Imperial Physician examine her and insisted on summoning Princess Consort Ling to the palace.
This was within the expectations of Jun Yuyan and Murong Jiu.
Sha Li and Sha Ya were both skilled, one excelling in medicine and poisons, the other in martial arts, and they were her trusted aides. With Sha Li's death being so timely, how could she be reconciled?
Upon quick reflection, she guessed that Sha Li's death was connected to Prince Ling's Mansion, so she urgently called for Murong Jiu to enter the palace.
