Yu Xiaocao clutched her stomach as she took out a jade bottle from her embroidered pouch. Then, she poured out two sparkling and translucent jade white pills and stuffed them into her mouth like she was eating jelly beans. She chewed the pills a few times before swallowing it.

“You...are you stupid?! If you have the antidote, why didn’t you take it right away? Are you waiting until you see the King of Hell before taking the antidote?” Zhu Junfan was angered to the point where he started laughing. Just what kind of person was she?! 

Yu Xiaocao smiled weakly at him and said, “Your Imperial Majesty, can you scold me later?   Can you give me a cup of boiled water?”

When the empress heard her request, she immediately ordered her most trusted personal maidservant to fetch a pot of boiled water from the small kitchen located in the Kunning Palace. She was still afraid that something was wrong, so she used her treasured parrot to test whether the water was poisonous or not. Parrot: ‘...is the life of a bird, not a life as well? I’m getting implicated in this when I just happen to be present here!’ 

The empress personally helped Xiaocao up, then she took the cup of boiled water from her trusted maidservant to feed Xiaocao. Xiaocao expressed her nervousness as she endured the pain from her stomach——if she drank directly from the cup, how could she let the little divine stop release...