Chapter 81: No Where Is Safe

"Yes, Mistress. I will ask them discreetly and make sure they don't suspect anything. Who knows if some of them did it willingly," Cuìyù said.

Mei Liang was not the only one troubled by this matter. The situation in De Fei's residence wasn't going well either. The First Princess kept having a fever and continued to cry—she had also been infected with the plague. Imperial Physician Chen, who was the one treating her, felt that his old bones would soon give up if he continued to run around like this.

Meanwhile, De Fei's internal injury from the emperor's kick had yet to heal. Hearing her daughter cry endlessly, De Fei felt both distressed and annoyed at the same time.

She was distressed because she had to watch her beloved daughter suffer through such an ordeal, and annoyed that she had been schemed against. Although the emperor hadn't announced the news publicly or named anyone, she wasn't fooled.