Physiognomy with No Bad Reviews

"He was unconscious for twelve days, with six sets of nine needles in him!"

Medical Officer Chunyu's Nine Needles Technique became a means of hanging on to life from its third stage onward. By the sixth stage, it was essentially a last-ditch attempt to treat a dead horse as though it were alive.

The Grand Empress Dowager had given up hope of Zhang Xuezhou surviving days ago. If Medical Officer Chunyu had not yet finished applying the Nine Needles Technique, he could already have been dragged out and buried.

He had finally regained consciousness, which was a good thing, but the Grand Empress Dowager could not bring herself to be happy.

It was far too different from what she had predicted.

She had once believed Zhang Xuezhou was dead, which would have put to rest the treatment involving opening her skull and cutting into her body.

But, of all things, Zhang Xuezhou had come back to life.

The way he had survived, however, made the Grand Empress Dowager deeply uneasy.

"If you undergo the treatment, Mother, your good fortune will surely be much greater than this Gongche Sima Commandant's," Grand Princess Dou reassured her.

"Only after gambling with my life would I know just how great that good fortune is!"

The Grand Empress Dowager replied.

She said neither that she would accept Medical Officer Chunyu's treatment nor that she would refuse it.

It was indeed a difficult choice for the Grand Empress Dowager.

If she accepted Medical Officer Chunyu's treatment, she might escape the pain of being entangled by Sha Qi for a short time. Or it might be a final burst of vitality, and she would perish a few days later.

If she did not accept Medical Officer Chunyu's treatment, the Grand Empress Dowager would be left with endless