Under Yu Qing’s treatment, the empress dowager had made substantial progress in her recovery and was able to take a few steps on her own. She would be able to walk properly with more physical therapy. However, she seemed to have aged several years over the past couple months. The sides of her hair were now peppered with white.

Lin Haihai held onto her hand with teary eyes, opening her mouth to reassure her, but the empress dowager shook her head and said, “Imperial Mother understands!”

She understood and accepted what would happen since there was no way for her to resist fate, but it didn’t mean that she wasn’t heartbroken.

On the day of the wedding, Lin Haihai’s body felt incredibly heavy. She had been in pain every day; she didn’t even have the strength to organize her own marriage. Guihua helped her put on her wedding gown, while Yu Qing applied makeup on her. Lin Haihai asked for heavier makeup since she looked too pale now. Yu Qing could only oblige her.

Everyone working at the plantation had been invited to the imperial city to attend the banquet, so were those from the Linhai Hospital. Moreover, the emperor decreed that a banquet would be held for the people of the capital for three days, organized by the lineage temples and paid by the imperial...