Gu Youyou and Searcy dressed carefully the next day and followed Jin Liuying and the Fifteenth Prince into the Imperial Palace.
To outsiders, it was said that they were witch doctors invited by the Fifteenth Prince to pay tribute to the Empress Dowager.
The Fifteenth Prince was the youngest child of the Empress Dowager and the late Emperor, and he was especially favored. Knowing that his son and daughter-in-law had specifically invited witch doctors for her, naturally, she was delighted.
"Cough, cough, cough…"
Gu Youyou and Searcy had yet to enter the Empress Dowager's sleeping quarters when they heard her violent coughing.
That kind of incessant coughing, one after another, truly unsettled those who heard it.
Gu Youyou asked Searcy softly, "What illness does her coughing sound like to you?"
Searcy hesitated for a moment, then suddenly raised her head and said, "Throat inflammation?"
