Chapter 548: Escape (2)_1
Luo Xue moved forward to support her, speaking comfortingly in a soft voice: "Do not panic, Your Highness, what Princess suffered was only extreme pain respiting from excessive shock. She then fainted. Her body has no serious harm. The bleeding from her wound has stopped after I tended the medicine."
"My poor child, you suffered so much..."
Empress Mo knelt on the ground, holding her deathly pale daughter, her heart breaking as if being cut by a blade....
Luo Xue softly said: "Your Highness, please don’t cry. Now is not the time to feel sorrow. The priority is to cover up this incident and move the princess away from here quietly."
Upon Luo Xue’s words, Empress Mo regained her composure. She wiped the tear stains from her cheeks and her face resumed its usual coldness.
"You are right. I momentarily lost control. Help the princess get dressed, get her back to her room. No one is allowed to spread word of this. If I hear anyone spouting nonsense outside, I’ll tear out their tongue and skin them alive!"
"Yes——"
The eunuchs and palace maidens in service nodded, answering with utmost piety.
To survive in the palace, turning a blind eye and deaf ear and keeping one’s mouth shut were basic survival rules. Even without Empress Mo’s warning, no one dares to gossip outside. Everyone wants to stay alive after all!
Just as Empress Mo had finished her orders, a young eunuch stationed outside suddenly rushed in, reporting in a panic.
"Your Excellency the Empress, the Emperor and Noble Consort Jin are here. The consorts from other palaces are with them. Please prepare to welcome the Emperor!"
"What? The Emperor...is here..."