Jiang Shuyue: [But that half-baked Lan Ruoyue could botch even a gallbladder removal. Let her perform a craniotomy, and the Empress Dowager would definitely depart for the next world ahead of schedule. This time next year, we could all be dancing at her grave!]
Although none of them understood what that kind of dancing meant, it did not sound like anything good.
(Jiang Shuyue: No, that kind of dancing is loads of fun. Lan Ruoyue knows!)
Prince Huai sneered. "The Empress Dowager's person is worth a thousand pieces of gold. How could you touch her just because you said so?"
"All people are born equal. Even if the world sees the Empress Dowager as someone worth a thousand pieces of gold, in my eyes, she is still only mortal."
"All mortals are subject to birth, aging, sickness, and death. I can save her, yet Your Highness refuses. Are you going to let worldly prejudice make you disregard your own mother's life?"
Even Jiang Shuyue could sense the facial muscles of those in power twitching.
The Fourth Prince's gaze, in particular, had turned utterly sinister.
He had recommended Lan Ruoyue because both she and the Second Prince had sworn that her medical skills were astonishing and that she possessed many methods that would leave people awestruck.
More importantly, the Second Prince had guaranteed that she could foresee the future.
Lan Ruoyue had also revealed several secrets, earning the Fourth Prince's trust.
That was why he had risked recommending her today.
He had never expected her to spout such outrageous nonsense on an occasion like this.
What was this nonsense about everyone being born equal? An emperor and a commoner were unequal from birth.
Who was she trying to get killed with those remarks?
Jiang Shuyue roared with laughter. [*I never thought