A guard came in from the courtyard when he heard Old Lady Fang’s instruction. He placed a small porcelain bottle beneath Lingzhi’s nose.
An acrid scent filled the room.
Concubine Yuan watched the scene from where she was kneeling on the floor through the cracks in her fingers.
It looked like there was no more child. Lingzhi would be cast away like a worn-out shoe. When she was with child, she ate food personally prepared by Lady, but without a child, they wouldn’t even call a doctor when she was bleeding.
Old Lady was merciless and callous, but that was nothing.
Concubine Yuan couldn’t help but shiver.
Lingzhi sneezed violently several times as she slowly came into consciousness.
But the newly awoken Lingzhi only had a moment’s time to be distracted. When she saw the blood beneath her, she recalled what had happened. Alarmed, she screamed.
