The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

The Queen did not know of the existence of the system, but she was always smart and knew Concubine Xu's life experience in detail. She had some vague guesses when she saw that the other party was able to produce a life-saving medicine whose specific ingredients even the imperial physician could not identify. She guessed that Concubine Xu might have had an encounter like some people who met immortals in history.

She was grateful for Concubine Xu's rescue, so she kept the imperial doctors silent and told outsiders that it was Concubine Xu who presented the precious medicine, which happened to be the right medicine for the disease, which led to such obvious effects.

Today, when the queen heard Xie Yuzhen come up with a flawed excuse to use what was probably the same medicine to save the child who had never been conscious, she refused without a second thought.

Just as she said to Xie Yuzhen, possessing a rare treasure without the ability to protect it will bring great disaster to the person who holds it. While the Queen was grateful for the sincerity of these two people towards her, she couldn't help but worry about Xie Yuzhen's careless attitude of presenting the treasure in front of others. If it was only to herself, it would be fine. After all, she no longer had any extra hope for this child, for this life...

But what if she was not careful for a moment and revealed her true colors to those people with ulterior motives, and they became obsessed with her and plotted against her in various ways? What should she do then?

The queen in turn held Xie Yuzhen's hands, pulled her aside, and ordered the imperial doctors to treat the prince as usual. As a mother, how could she not know how poor her son's health was?

Even though the imperial doctors and palace maids witnessed the death of the Fifth Prince today, they cannot be blamed for the responsibility. Just do your best without worrying about it. Don't ask for perfection, just try your best.

The Queen gently comforted everyone in the Fifth Prince's room, and despite Xie Yuzhen's hesitation to speak, she pulled her out of the room: "Although you are usually lively and outgoing, you are usually cautious. Why are you so reckless today?"

Xie Yuzhen's mouth sank: "My queen, don't you really want me to give it a try? His Highness..."

"Even if he can survive now, what does it matter? Who in this world doesn't experience the separation of life and death?" The Queen's shoulders, which had been upright all this time, suddenly slumped. She said, "It's not that I'm not heartbroken, but... can your medicine instantly turn Jiushou into a healthy and normal child?"

But this is not possible.

After scanning the physical condition of the Fifth Prince, the Miracle Medicine System informed Xie Yuzhen that although the medicines in its medicine storehouse could temporarily keep the Fifth Prince alive, they could not make up for the innate defects in his genes. This was a restriction set by the Lord God when he created him. Those miraculous medicines that could change fate could only be exchanged directly from the Lord God after applying to him. Now that the Miracle Medicine System had separated from the Lord God, there was naturally no way out.

Xie Yuzhen, whose mind was not clear to begin with and who only wanted to save the Fifth Prince's life because he was temporarily useful to him, could not help but remain silent.

The queen saw her hesitation and slight guilt and uneasiness, but she didn't care. Instead, she understood her worries: "Once you have seen the beautiful scenery in this world, it is hard to let go. If you are used to reaching out and getting the rare treasures of time, what you get in return is often not gratitude, but even more greed."

"I am just an ordinary woman. But perhaps, compared to other mothers, I am more cruel and cold-blooded. I gave birth to him with a glimmer of hope, and kept him in this world with greed to endure the pain. Now I am finally ready to send him away... I gave birth to him and I will kill him. This is the decision made by me, an unkind mother. You don't have to think too much."

Xie Yuzhen looked at the queen. The face of the woman opposite was still calm, so calm that Xie Yuzhen could not help but feel fear: "Your Majesty is deliberately making things difficult for me. I have never been a good woman. What I said to Your Majesty today was just out of my own greed. I want to use the life of the fifth prince to make Your Majesty grateful to me and miss me. From now on, you will have to hand over all your power to me because of this favor, so that I can become the uncrowned queen and do whatever I want in this inner palace..."

She stared into the queen's calm eyes and said, "You know my ability to stir up trouble. When that happens, there will be no peace in the harem. I will punish those who dare to compete with me for my favor and those who I don't like every day!"

The fifth prince couldn't tie her down.

Xie Yuzhen suddenly realized it.

Given the queen's temperament, she would not fail to love the child she had given birth to with great difficulty. However, although this child who was born in misery did not consume all of the queen's maternal love, it did make her think that rather than letting the child suffer more and more in this world, it would be better to let him enter reincarnation before he develops self-awareness.

Xie Wei really couldn't judge this kind of maternal love that seemed both open-minded and cold-blooded, and more like a kind of maternal love that had to be resigned to despair.

She tried to understand the Queen's thoughts, but she only felt more and more the heavy deathly aura from the Queen. Unwilling to sit and wait for death, Xie Yuzhen decisively changed her perspective and began to threaten her with other people and things that the Queen absolutely cared about.

The queen just looked at her like a naughty sister at home: "If you are just an uncrowned queen, it will be difficult for you to interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty."

Because no matter what she did, those who opposed Xie Yuzhen in the future would repeatedly bring up the queen, who was superior to her in terms of status and etiquette, to fight against them.

Xie Yuzhen's heart skipped a beat.

The Queen looked away and gazed at the dark sky: "Although the Dongxiang Palace no longer exists, I can still understand some of the tracks of the previous dynasty through the changes made by His Majesty to internal and external personnel. Since he intends to cultivate you, you just need to take it. I know you have some ambitions."

"How can a person live in this world without ambition? It is a very lucky and remarkable thing to have ambition and goals, and to have the environment and ability to achieve them."

"I know you care about me." The queen suddenly turned around and raised her hand to push up the messy hair that Xie Yuzhen had dropped on her forehead. "I know you only talk viciously, but you won't bully the weak for no reason."

"People's hearts are fickle. If Your Majesty doesn't stay to watch over me and protect me, how can you know what I will become in the end?" Xie Yuzhen's voice began to tremble.

The Queen held her hand and pushed a string of agate Buddhist beads from under her sleeve to Xie Yuzhen's wrist: "Then I will just say that I made a mistake again."

This answer made Xie Yuzhen completely choke up, and after a long while he spoke again: "Xian Fei is just thinking badly..."

"That's because I trust her, so she has the power to do so many things." The queen said, "If it wasn't for me, she would have become the queen. It's reasonable for her to blame me. There are only a few things a woman can care about in her life. What she can see and get is pitifully small. How can she not care, not pay attention, and not... get stuck in a dead end?"