Chapter 1349: Chapter 1349

The Empress Dowager’s illness has greatly improved, and the Emperor of Nanzhao held a family banquet in the harem to celebrate. The Empress Dowager was in good spirits today and praised her youngest son for his filial piety, saying he found a good witch doctor for her. But at this moment, the fifteenth Prince jumped out to challenge this notion.

"Mother, it’s not your son’s fault, there is something your son has kept from you."

The Empress Dowager was pleased and didn’t pay much attention, smiling as she said, "Yanzhong, what is it? Even if you have kept something from me, I know it’s for my own good, isn’t it?"

The fifteenth Prince nodded repeatedly, saying, "Indeed, I was afraid it might affect your treatment, so I did not dare tell the truth. Now that your illness has improved, I feel uneasy keeping it from you any longer. I plan to reveal what I’ve been hiding."

The Empress Dowager laughed heartily and said to Jin Liuying, "Look at this silly child, sincere at heart. He kept it from me out of consideration, and now he decides to speak out, also for me."

The Emperor of Nanzhao squinted towards the fifteenth Prince, as he probably guessed what he wanted to say, but showed no intention to stop him.

As the saying goes, when fairies fight, mortals suffer.

Much like what he said before, between Jin Zijin and Yu Jizi’s confrontation, he was merely an innocent bystander, content to watch without getting involved.

But the sudden intention of his fifteenth brother to help them left him puzzled.

It seemed out of character as he wasn’t one to meddle, but it appeared to be related to the Princess of Zhuzhao Country.

The Empress Dowager beckoned the fifteenth Prince to her side and said gently, "Little Fifteen, tell me, what have you kept from me?"

The fifteenth Prince wore a gentle smile and said, "This matter isn’t too big nor too small. Actually, the person treating your illness was not a witch doctor from Nanzhao, but a doctor from Zhuzhao Country. She also has another identity as the eldest daughter-in-law of Zhuzhao Country and Liuying’s sister-in-law."

The smile on the Empress Dowager’s face froze instantly, leaving her speechless.

Everyone was stunned, and they began whispering among themselves.

"How could the fifteenth Prince find a doctor from Zhuzhao Country to treat the Empress Dowager? She despises doctors and only trusts witch doctors." Official source is NovelHub(.)net

"Indeed, the fifteenth Prince is too bold, this is the Empress Dowager’s treatment, what if something goes wrong?"

Jin Liuying was annoyed by this talk and said, "My sister-in-law happened to be here, invited by the Prince, to treat the Empress Dowager. It’s because your witch doctors couldn’t cure her that she willingly took the risk to save lives.

You say she wants to harm the Empress Dowager? If she pretended not to know how to treat, wouldn’t it be easier not to intervene at all? Why make such a fuss? And the Empress Dowager’s illness is now cured, isn’t it? Everything is before your eyes, how can you still talk nonsense here?"

Most people here outranked Jin Liuying as they were the Emperor of Nanzhao’s concubines.

Hearing Jin Liuying speak to them in such a tone made them indignant.

Someone remarked snidely, "Oh, Princess of a great country, looking down on our witch doctors, aren’t you? If you didn’t look down, why did you marry into our Nanzhao Country?"

"Exactly, since you’re married, you’re no longer a princess of a great country but the wife of the fifteenth Prince. Mind your identity, this is not the place for you to flaunt your power."

Jin Liuying, being impulsive with the mindset of a young girl, couldn’t out-argue these women.

She looked at the fifteenth Prince with a bit of grievance.