On the other hand, at first, the Empress Dowager did wonder about what Sahara had stated earlier.

Was that really the case? I had thought that Miss Haves had been put into a dungeon because of the Princess, but really, what had she done then to my dear Matthew?

The main reason known to others, was that Miss Haves had gone against a royal decree and was lucky to keep her life, so, many did not know that she had even tried drugs upon the Second Prince.

It had been kept a secret, due to the fact that others may think that the sexual deed could have been done, when in fact it hadn’t. To stop people to think upon false truths and spread rumors, the truth of the Second Prince being drugged by Miss Haves had never come out to the public…So, Miss Haves was still being held inside a cell within Matthew’s estate having been the cause to her family's downfall…In the last six months, they had gone from the richest family in Green Haven, to that of a normal noble family that was now poor. Their house and other assets had to be sold as punishment to defying a royal degree but magnanimously, the emperor did not kill off their whole family. How could the emperor not take advantage of gaining a monopoly for himself uh!? Of course, he was ‘magnanimous’ and let them off! He was now quite the rich man!

Now, they had moved into the General’s home and that was another thing that had kept the General busy before having ventured into the wilderness towards Purple Haven, as he had to claim his rightful place as the head of his estate!

The Haves family were only getting a tenth of Sum to what they used to get, the women had to help with the work around the estate and the men had to look for jobs and could not have more than one wife, unless they had already been married to them beforehand.

And since the General was aware of the secret drugging to ‘the boy’, he was only treating them well enough as his wife wanted him too. Luckily though, she just wanted them to be comfortable, as she did work as well, she did not see it a problem that her husband had come up with these rules…

Sahara, not really aware that it was indeed a secret, had let information slip out…Actually, she wasn’t very good at keeping secrets, so the Empress Dowager would probably go forever not understanding the real situation if Sahara had not said this!

The Empress Dowager was thinking of a few things of what Miss Haves had tried to do, because she didn’t know the particulars, but those ideas were still relatively bad and decided that she will investigate further, before blindly following what she had heard from other people’s mouths first…Of course, the best possible way to find out, was through her son, the emperor himself!

Knowing that she had heard the rumors beforehand from that of her new daughter in laws, an interesting thought of ‘jealously’ that the little girl had stated earlier, did come to mind. If she does find that a daughter in law was using this to scheme against her own sister-in-law, then…

The other thought, before others were made, was the fact that the Princess completely expressed that she was trying to do as asked and that she, the Empress Dowager, was the one holding her back!

You could say that the Empress Dowager was conflicted, confused and even angered while she had been silent…

***

Since Sahara had finished, she saw that the Empress wasn’t waking up and noticed that her heart needed a bit of repair too…

Yes…She hadn’t healed much of the internal organs…She hadn’t wanted too…But what was the point of removing poisons, when she might die because of her heart…

Sighing, Sahara put a small amount of effort into repairing the heart and other organs, then stopped.

Wondering if she should take a pill, considering that her spiritual essence was now only a third full, Sahara shook her head. It had become obvious to her, now, that healing others was taking less spiritual essence then it used to…But, now that she had noticed, she zoomed into her dantian and realized that when one ranks up in cultivation, more spiritual essence is able to be stored. Upon seeing this, Sahara remembered about what she had read quite some years ago now, that when one ranks up to ten, it was when the spiritual essence was more denser…But…Seeing what she was seeing inside of her own dantian, Sahara was sure that as one goes up in rank, the spiritual essence may start off as more scattered in the first couple of ranks, but it already starts to go denser as the dantian doesn’t grow with your spiritual essence. So, it wasn’t like it suddenly becomes denser spiritual essence, it was more so it happened over time…Which made a lot of sense to Sahara….

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All in all, her one third full dantian now, was not like that of a one third full of a rank three cultivation base and so on…So, that was why she was able to heal more now than before. It was the same as being able to teleport more as well…

…Nonetheless, taking a pill now in this room, where two people hadn’t really liked her…It wasn’t a good idea!

And what was more in her thoughts…She hadn’t felt safe since the cousin said those words about her little man!

But, in the next moment, the Empress let out a noise and then opened her eyes.

Leaving the bed, Sahara wanted to teleport straight away, just not knowing where to go. “I have…”

“Silence!”

Sahara looked down and rolled her eyes.

The Empress is quick!

Yes, it was her that had interrupted Sahara!

“Imperial mother-in-law, why is she here!?” The Empress asked, sneering at Sahara.

“This old woman demanded that the Divine Healer was to heal you, I can now relax, to see that you have finally woken up and that you are no longer in a critical way.”

The Empress Dowager had grown a certain respect towards Sahara…But that didn’t mean that she now liked her.

Seeing the Empress stop looking like a dead person, with her own eyes, the Empress Dowager was elated and thought of Sahara as more of a legendary tool to use now instead.

To be able to accomplish something like this! Not even a pulse was read! Nor were ingredients used! Miraculous!

Having tried to come up with ways to obtain complete obedience of this ‘tool’, the further silence of the Empress Dowager, while Sahara was healing the Empress, was more so of this type of planning…

Sahara stood there, in somewhat a lazy bow, while the two old ladies conversed into a conversation like she wasn’t even there…

They spoke of happiness to her health, then of how Sahara did how she was told…But the Empress payed no thanks and stated that Sahara should do what she had been expectant of her anyway. They played with her title, stating that as a ‘Divine Healer’, she should heal, then used her role as ‘Princess’ to state that healing the Empress should be a given…

This made Sahara want to laugh out loud, really trying to hold back on showing this amusement!

Her life here really was strange! She had started off as a daughter of the Right Minister, then ended up as the granddaughter of the Right Minister, then to be a ‘Divine Healer’ and ‘Princess’!

If she had to be honest, she wasn’t all that upset when people were all calling her different titles…Because she can understand it herself!

But…This was a reason she didn’t like titles! They use whatever title they wanted to benefit them…Whereas Sahara missed Earth, wanting the only thing that people call her to be ‘Sahara’…

Ah, the olden days and titles…Well at least Matthew and the Emperor call me Sahara…It’s a small type of accomplishment I suppose…

Then the Empress spoke of Matthew’s other wives, bringing the Empress up to date of how respectful they are…

The Empress didn’t seem to say much about the cousin consort’s, by going quiet, but she really didn’t care. She had seen them, when they had come here to pay respects, but the Empress hadn’t been able to give them much attention.

They don’t pose a threat to her in any type of way, so the Empress didn’t have to care beyond showing that she was the Empress and that she will be obeyed!

But…As time went on, she did get involved a bit more in the conversation. Not only were they secretly agreeing with making Matthew getting him to marry a real, new Princess, but the subject that made rage fill up inside of Sahara, and that of what she had been waiting for…Was that of her unborn son!

“This old woman wants to see the child grow in the right environment and ask the Empress to help. Matthew’s consorts have accepted my idea of them taking the child and teaching respect and that of the royal ways. If the Empress, my daughter in law, can decree for the child to be given to the consorts for upbringing, I am sure this will benefit more than one person…”

The Empress Dowager had ignored Sahara all this time, now, she looked at Sahara and gave a smirk.

That’s right…It was an idea due to anger before…Now this idea will be their hostage…The Divine Healer will have to do everything they say now, or we will never let her see her son!

Even though the Empress Dowager had taken quite some time to come up with this idea, the Empress understood this strategy nearly straight away and couldn’t wait to say her approval of her Imperial mother-in-law!

Normally, the Empress Dowager did not involve herself in such things anymore…But now that she was…The Empress was going to use her to the best of her ability!

Sahara looks up and interrupts the Empress, who was saying to make it a decree as soon as possible, “Let me get this straight, just in case I misheard, are you talking about my unborn child right now?”

She was sure, positive! And…It all made sense now!

Of course, they were talking about her child!

“Yes, the little one will be taken and put into the Second Prince’s consort’s care after…” The Empress Dowager stated.

Before another word was said, Sahara walked towards her, silencing the two older women. It wasn’t like she had just thought of this or planned to act upon it either…But how could she not let some type of anger show with what she had just heard!

It was done! The Empress Dowager had gone too far!

How dare she think she could just take my child from me!

Something that was rumbled up, like it had been tossed aside, appeared in Sahara’s hand and then she roughly but it into the Empress Dowagers clothes, touched her on the head, and she disappeared!

Turning towards the Empress, Sahara glared at her.

“…What?” The Empress lost her contented look, to one of being confused and questionable…Obviously wondering where the Empress Dowager had disappeared too.

Sahara sighed, “Threats…”

The Empress glared at Sahara, “…Someone come! Sahara has taken the Empress Dowager hostage! Come!”

Sahara then took that moment to grab the clothes near the Empress’s neck and pulled her in closer to herself, “This is now my last warning to you too. Make me mad, I dare you…And I will also send you to Purple Haven! Oh…And there’s no royalty there…Ha…”

Actually, I can see you getting along with 'lagging ping'...

Roughly letting the Empress go, Sahara teleported out of the room, just before guards came in with the Empress’s maidservants...