The empress dowager smiled faintly, but her eyes remained rueful. “I’ll go with you, but I have a request: Please take care of Juanzi for me after I pass away!”

Juanzi’s expression crumbled into one of despair. “If Your Majesty passes away, Juanzi will not linger in this world!”

“Silly girl, you’re still young. You have a long future ahead of you!”

Lin Haihai was touched by the master and servant. She turned to Zheng Feng and said, “Hire a horse carriage. I’m taking them with me!”

Zheng Feng left without a word. Lin Haihai sat down and said, “Please don’t give up before the moment of your death comes. Would you tell me who poisoned you?”

Lin Haihai wanted to know what kind of a person would cultivate such a terrible gu.

“It’s the consort of Rong’s regent.” The empress dowager looked out the window with deep sorrow. “She’s from Miaojiang and cultivates gu for a living. She’s vicious and malicious. Everyone knows what she’s capable of. He is the only one who believes her to be a gentle and obedient consort!”

Lin Haihai was stunned. She could tell there was more to the story, but it was still an atrocity for the regent’s consort to use such potent poison on a woman. She looked at the elegant and beautiful empress dowager. She couldn’t possibly...