After sending off the imperial physician, Madam Wang ordered hot water with countless petals and fragrant dew to wash her son twice. She did the same for herself, scrubbing from head to toe, yet still felt there was a lingering smell.
Emerging from the cleansing room after scrubbing away a layer of skin, her son was still in a deep sleep. Madam Wang's heart trembled. If she hadn't seen his chest rising and falling, she would have thought the child was no more!
She even reached out to check his breathing, feeling the warmth, the wildly beating and chaotic heart, slowly calming down.
"Madam, the Old Madam has arrived!" Nanny Wei, having changed her clothes, reported carefully.
Madam Wang had already heard her mother-in-law's loud voice, a flash of disgust and hostility in her eyes.
"Yuyu, how is Yuyu?" Old Madam Wu, supported by her trusted nanny, rushed in. Seeing her precious grandson's face as pale as a sheet, she staggered, letting out a sharp cry of his name.
