"Mother, what is that?" Felix asked, feeling a bit confused.
"Your father's poison!" the empress exclaimed. "He has killed countless people with this poison all his life, and now I would like to use his own poison to end his life. It would be a decent way to die even for someone like him."
Hearing this made the emperor's blood boil. As soon as he woke up, he heard how the empress egged on Felix to kill him. And as if that wasn't bad enough, Felix actually agreed to it. Now, the empress was even planning to use his own poison to kill him. If he continued to stay in a coma, he would most certainly die. But if they were to find out that he was awake right now, that would also mean death for him!
At that moment, all the emperor could do was to pray that someone else would come here so that he could wake up. The empress mentioned that she wouldn't kill him until three days later, which meant he still had some time. However, his chances of making it out alive would be very slim if the empress were to begin poisoning him from here on out!
"Your Majesty, it's now time for His Majesty to take his medicine." A maid walked in and brought the medicine to the empress. This made the emperor's heart leap to his throat. After all, taking medicine was just about the last thing he wanted to do right now.
Without delay, the empress took the bowl, beckoning her maid to leave. Seeing this, the maid left the room at once. After putting down the bowl, she opened the vial, poured a small amount of poison into it and stirred it. "Felix, help your father up. I will feed him myself."
"Yes, Mother."
Felix immediately helped the emperor up. At that moment, the emperor was so scared at his wit's end that he didn't dare to move a muscle. He desperately wanted to grit his teeth as the empress fed him the medicine, but he couldn't risk making the empress suspicious. Feeling so helpless, he had no other choice but to drink it. That being said, he tried to spit out as much as he could.
After a while, the empress finally finished feeding him the entire bowl. Although a lot of the medicine had been spilled, the emperor had still drunk a considerable amount. This had put the empress in a good mood. If she continued mixing in a little poison in the medicine every day, the emperor would be dead in three days. No one would be able to find out that it was her who had poisoned the emperor!
Watching the emperor lying motionless on the bed, Harper almost couldn't hold back her laughter. The emperor had a habit of poisoning people. Now, he finally had a taste of his own medicine. To make matters worse, it had been fed to him by his own wife, the empress. Harper was so eager to find out how the emperor felt.
As he looked at Harper who was trying to hold back her laughter, Matthew couldn't help but smile silently. Those who had done wrong always got their just deserts. The emperor had just been given a dose of his own medicine. However, the empress and Felix would get themselves in trouble this time.
"That should be enough for now. The show is over. It's time for us to leave." Wrapping his arm around Harper's waist, Matthew left the Tranquil Hall with her in silence.
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