The emperor walked up to Sahara and slightly nodded at her, then walked out himself. If he didn’t have to, he would prefer not to choose between his mother and daughter in law. Unable to do anything at present, he decided to wait and see how things played out…Yet again, patience was something he had to rely on…

Felix had watched this come about and wanted to do as Matthew did and speak back to the Empress Dowager, but…At the moment, he was a little bit scared of his Imperial Grandmother…

He had seen her quite a few times, but this was the first time that she was like this, and he didn’t know how to deal with it. If he didn’t follow after everyone else, he was sure it would be bad…Again, he found himself in a predicament of doing what he didn’t want to do…

Silently, Felix followed behind His Majesty and only gave Sahara a worried look, not even too sure on what he was worried about, as his young mind was not completely understanding what was going on…

“The rest of you can leave as well, if the Divine Healer needs assistance, I will call for someone.” The Empress Dowager stated, walking to the most comfortable chair within the room and leisurely sat upon it.

Eunuch Han, the Imperial physicians and maidservants left awkwardly, leaving only three inside the room…The Empress Dowager, the Empress and Sahara…

Sahara sighed once again and walked straight to the side of the bed and got up on it.

No time like the present to get this over with!

She remembered all her thoughts when being in this room recently and felt like she had wasted time. She had accepted the Empress’s life and had accepted her impending death…Now, she was the one that was going to bring her back from death’s door and…It felt wrong…

She really didn’t want to save this person, even though she felt like she needed to heal a lot more to equalize all the deaths that she had created.

“What are you doing!?”

I’m knitting a fucking sweater, you old bitch!

Sahara was desperately trying to not get angry and hot headed…

Sitting down, Sahara just wanted to dismiss the old hag!

“I asked you a question, you rude, little girl!”

Me rude? You’re the one stopping me from doing what you want! Geez, I don’t like you at all, you old woman!

Sahara looked at the Empress Dowager and bluntly said, “Do you want me to heal her or not!?”

“Should I threaten you with a decree, my child!?”

What!? All I want is for you to shut up and you take my words like that!? Maybe she’s that old that she’s forgotten how to think!? Senile alert!

Sahara glared at the Empress Dowager, not wanting to care if her words could have been misinterpreted, “I am sitting here because I’ll be quicker, I will also touch her. That is why I am on the bed. Now, can I continue?”

“…Don’t look at me like that, little girl! If anyone is to glare at another, it is I to glare at you!”

Sahara slouched and sighed...It looked to her like the Empress Dowager just wanted to make things harder and nit-pick on anything that she can find!

“Heal her! She is not to die! If she dies, I will have your head!” The Empress Dowager yelled.

There it is! There’s that threat! Hmph, did she even know what she just said? I can’t make the Empress an immortal you bloody idiot!

It was like Sahara had been waiting for that one line to be used, ever since first meeting the emperor…So, it hadn’t fazed her at all…

And due to the fact that Sahara looked somewhat bored or exhausted, the Empress Dowager got even more angrier, “You forcefully take the Princess position, you take my grandson away and keep him to yourself! You are utterly shameless, and I wished I had said something upon your marriage! I would not have let you join our family! You are a disgrace to our great name!”

By now, spouting out all of these words, the Empress Dowager felt better, letting out some of her anger from all this time.

Since the Empress had been bed ridden and unable to do her duties, the Empress Dowager had taken up a lot of her work, only giving a few tasks to the other Emperor’s consorts. In the last couple of weeks, the days had seemed endless and perhaps the Empress Dowager was feeling the effects of it now, as she rubbed her tired eyes.

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What may have been great, was the constant arrivals of people coming to see her when she had gone quite some time without many visits…But, it had become also taxing upon her old age…

The new granddaughter in laws were sweet and charming, but they did have a higher respect then that of this little, rude girl and the Empress Dowager had already planned all this out…All she had to do was to keep up with what she was doing!

The only thing that kept her from going further by making plans to have this girl abandoned, was that of the child within this girl’s body! Ah, she had already given this girl a chance the first time that they had met and only got treated poorly in return…It was a sufficient reason now to do as she wanted and treat her poorly in return!

Already having thought about the future of this little girl, the Empress Dowager was sure that she could only fall into line now!

This little girl will know that she is nothing!

It wasn’t like the Empress Dowager had not questioned why she was so angry at Princess Sahara. But, to her, the reasons seemed justified!

“A selfish girl like you…” The Empress Dowager mumbled.

“Are you finished!?” Sahara yelled back.

“…Ex…Excuse me!” The sudden yell from the little girl had surprised the old woman at great lengths! For many years, she had lived as an old woman to always be respected, to suddenly feel like she was a child and had done something wrong!

How was this fair! If anyone was to yell…Yelling at this old woman!

But, as the Empress Dowager wanted to start feeling like she has been put into a grievous position, she could not also help but be slightly affected by that tone of voice. It was…Like a mother’s call to a child that always whimpered over something useless…Like that of her late, younger sister a long time ago…And…This little girl sounded so natural at it, like she does it all the time!

Sahara got up from the bed and walked to be in front of the Empress Dowager, “You want me to heal…So, I try to heal…But I can’t do it when you are rambling on like an immature child! You tell me that I forcefully took the Princess position? No! I did not! Do you have any idea what Miss Haves even tried to do with Matthew? Uh? Do you know why she’s not around anymore!? How about you ask the right questions instead of listening to some stupid rumor that probably started from someone who was jealous! And me, keeping your grandson to myself!? Well, he is my damned husband for crying out loud! And we had never approved on him marrying anyone else! Not only that…He’s also a great helper in Purple Haven! He keeps those little shits in control! And you know what!? Right now, I’m really upset that the family I married into, is a family that wants to continuously make things difficult for me! So, if there’s something shameless going on here, it’s the royal family not accepting what has already happened! I’m married to Matthew, and we will be together! How about you guys get over it!”

Sahara let out a large breath in frustration, then lowered her voice, to attempt to look as though she had calmed down, “So…How about you stay quiet now and let me do as you had asked me to do!?”

The Empress Dowager was wide eyed, and her mouth was hanging opened in complete shock. There were a few things there, from what this girl had said, that really did make things different…Things that she might have to think about…But, having her talk to her like this, the first words that came to mind were…

“How dare…”

“Not another word! I don’t give a shit about this dirty woman on the bed, and if you want to ‘behead’ me I will just leave and won’t come back to Green Haven! Do you understand!?” Sahara spoke back firmly, she was telling the absolute truth, because she was completely fed up with what was going on!

Why the hell is this old woman like this!? When they had first met, she had been a lot nicer!

Having had to spend a bit of time within her presence now, Sahara could only think that the royal family seemed to want to diss her and probably remove her as the Princess, but they had completely forgotten about one extremely important factor! And that was the Second Prince himself!

Like he would let a divorce happen! Or, if divorces didn’t happen, like he would let them do as they please to me! They seem to have no idea who Matthew was at all! Idiots!

The second most important factor…Is that they can’t take my family as hostages, to make me do as they asked…Not only did they not reside here in Green Haven, but one was a beast, one was a ranked eight cultivator, and another was their own Second Prince…Everyone else…Well, there was no one else…

“…Blashem…” The Empress Dowager started to say but stopped when she felt Sahara’s unbelievable cultivation base want to shatter her bones and internal organs!

This was against the law! Yet, did Sahara care!? The Empress Dowager going that step further to even curse her once again, yes, Sahara did not care! She remembered explicitly that one of her goals was to do as she wished and get away with it! How could she think of royalty being enough to not do as she just did when she was mad at them!? Especially when they treat her this way!

“Old women, like you, aren’t even alive in Purple Haven, you know that? Guess what happened to them!?” Sahara wasn’t able to help a deadly warning from escaping her lips…She was at her limits, she was doing all this when she wasn’t even asked nicely, and now she made a silent oath to not do this if this old woman continued to stop her!

This was the old woman’s last chance to save the Empress…Was she going to take it!?

Again, the Empress Dowager stared at Sahara with wide eyes. “…Well…”

Nothing else came out of her mouth and Sahara smirked, not just any smirk, a smirk that was like a devil, “…The elderly were simply not strong enough…”

Turning around and going back to the bed, Sahara sat down upon it once again, “If you don’t want to go to Purple Haven with me, then be quiet so that I can concentrate!”

Touching the head of the Empress, Sahara waited for a moment…Then started to heal her.

After the moment of silence, she felt like she still had to keep an eye on her surroundings, which was going to add more time into healing…But…At the moment, she didn’t trust anything or anybody!

Not only was Matthew put into a position that he could do nothing about, but so was she, and all because of one old woman!

Yes, Sahara was not happy! She was mad as all hell and she didn’t know what it was, but ever since the quiet words from her cousin, she’s felt like she’s stiffened up without being able to relax, and put on high alert…

This is so not cool! Perhaps I should have listened to Matthew and stayed in Purple Haven…

But one good thing did come out of this…And that was the silence of the Empress Dowager…But in turn, that meant that she was healing the Empress…

Can’t win em all uh! If only she had spoken, or speaks now…Come on old woman, say something! Then I could stop healing and leave!

But no more words were said…So, grudgingly, Sahara continued to heal the Empress…

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