Chapter 2 (1/2)
”Ahh, so it was like that”
”Yes, I heard that hat the doctor saw that upon entering”
Maomao listened intently as she sipped her soup There were several hundredhall It consisted of a soup and a cereal porridge
The h she was lea with curiosity
”It was the same with Gyokuyou-sama and Rifa-sama too”
”Woah, those two as well It has been half a year, and three ht?”
”That's right It has to be the curse”
The names mentioned were the favoured consorts of ees of their respective children
The rumours spread quickly in the inner palace They were hottest stories about the court ladies picked by the e and prejudice
“I guess so Otherwise there's no reason for those three to pass away as well”
The ones passed aere the consorts' children, in other words, those ere chosen in the future as successors When the emperor was the crown prince there was one, now as the eh it is obvious that thethree children froe
As of now, only Gyokuyou and Rifa’s children are left
“Could it be poisoning?”
Maomao reached a different conclusion as she clutched the hot water
A those three children, two had been princesses While only boys can be bestowed succession rights, there were no reasons to kill princesses
The two sitting in front of her continued to speak curses and cala their chopsticks
(I said already that there is no curse)
This thing could be boiled down to a single word, pointless Mao of an entire clan just because of a curse was pretty e she could assert her basis on
(What kind of illness? Could it be genetic? How did they pass away?)
It was then the quiet and unsociable maid spoke to the talkative maid
The regret fro that happened a little while later
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”I don't know the details but, apparently they all gradually got weaker”
The talkative maid, Shaoran who spoke with Maomao had an interest on the topic Afterwards she also told her about the rumours
”I thing it's worse fro her more often”
She said as she wiped down thefra dust-cloth
”What about Rifa-sama herself?”
”Mother and child both”
The fact that the doctor is seeing Consort Rifa ests that it was the crown prince that was sicker Consort Gyokuyou's child was a princess
The emperor favoured Consort Gyokuyou ender of the children as the more important one
”While I don't know the specifics of the sys like headache, stomach aches, and nausea”
After Shaoran spilled everything she knew to her hearts content, she went to her next job
Maoratitude It was es of the courtyard It had a strong sweetness The maid who rarely tasted sweetness was overjoyed from that
(Head ache, stomach ache and nausea…)
As she recalled the symptoms, she could not form an answer
Her dad had always severely taught her to never uess
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