Forensic Imperial Concubine by Erika Black

Chapter 35

Denny had the medical bath prepared soon. When the guards carried the bath barrel in, they caught sight of Harper quickly
pulling out the needles from Matthew's body. His face turned from dark to ashy from the great amount of blood loss.
"Put him in." Wiping the sweat off her forehead, Harper pulled out a porcelain bottle from the pocket of her waist and rattled out
three red pills. Without another word, she tilted Matthew's chin up and made him swallow them all.
There was a smell of blood from the pills that made Denny wrinkle his nose. "What are those?"
"Blood-generating Pills," Harper explained, discontented by the fact that she had to use them already. "His Highness already lost
too much blood. It's too slow to make up for the lost blood by taking nourishing food, and this would be a quicker way. Alas! He
has eaten as much as three pills at a time."
Looking at the pained look of Harper, Denny couldn't help but choke back a laughter. If any other woman was placed in her
position, she'd surely do everything in her power to save Matthew. Harper, however, cared about her pills more than Matthew.
Denny shook his head incredulously.
"Can I have one?" Denny asked cautiously. He could tell from the expression on Harper's face that the pills were very rare and
hard to come by. Were these pills really that effective? He was curious.
Unexpectedly, Harper gave him a pill without hesitation. "It's used as a last resort in dealing with excessive amount of blood loss.
I used a lot of herbs to make only ten of them." She shot Matthew a look. "His Highness just wasted three."
'Wasted?' Denny hid a smile, and couldn't help but admire the woman in front of him. Only she would think feeding these pills to
Matthew would be a waste. If it were any other physician, it would've been their honor to serve the prince.
"What herbs do you need? You can ask His Highness to compensate for your loss once he wakes up," he suggested.
"Of course His Highness will. If I wasn't planning for this, I would've already left," Harper scoffed, looking at Matthew as if she
was looking at a treasure chest. She obviously needed money to run her store. Money was hard to come by, so she wasn't going
to throw this opportunity out of the window.
When Matthew finally woke up, the first thing he saw was a pair of shiny eyes. The surprise and delight that shone from them
really confused him. Was she really that happy to see him wake up?
"Your Highness, you're awake!" Harper sighed in relief.

Matthew blinked, not at all used to her bubbly attitude. He simply replied with a nod of his head and kept silent.
"Your Highness, please don't tell your guard to bring me here like that again. The way he carried me on his shoulder made me
throw up," Harper complained pouting her lips.
"Okay," Matthew agreed easily.

Another smile spread over Harper's face. Without another prompt, she quickly handed over a piece of paper. "This is the bill for
the treatment I've given you, Your Highness."
Denny almost fell off his chair. The woman actually dared to ask Matthew for the medical fee. 'Do you even know who he is?
How dare you demand payments from him!' he thought to himself.
Matthew, however, didn't look at all fazed from her request. Instead, he took the list from her and scanned it closely. The paper
was well organized, listing the cost of each item, the amount of medical herbs it contained, and even the total price he owed her

his hand, only for a servant to move towards him. "Go get her 1, 000 taels of gold and pack whatever herbs she has listed, and give them to her." Matthew didn't even bother to bargain before waving the servant away. Harper couldn't help but feel flattered. After she returned to her house, she glanced at the 1, 000 taels of gold and the large bag of herbs that she had just acquired. It was as if she was in a dream! 'If I can make money out of this for a few more times, I'd be rich as hell. No wonder so many people would want to be physicians; it's where the money is, ' Harper thought, placing the gold

stretched out his hand, meaning to poke him, but he retreated it at one look at Matthew's face. If he did it, he might just find his arm lying on the floor. "I won't die." There was no expression on Matthew's face, as if God had sent a robot in the place of a person. His eyes were shut when Harper touched him, but he was conscious. He couldn't help but recall the feeling—it was different from when he was touched

"What do you think of Harper, Denny?"
"She loves money, and she's incredibly stingy. All she did was talk about money and the herbs. She was even afraid that you
wouldn't pay up," Denny scoffed, shaking his head.
"It's good to love money, which makes her a person that I can use," Matthew said slowly, but he didn't think Harper loved money.
He had already sent someone to investigate her, and he'd had an idea on what she liked, what she hated, and who else she had
met. "Do you know she's good at martial arts?"
"Impossible. I've seen her, and from what I can tell, her strength is subpar." Denny denied it without any hesitation. From how
she had behaved, he found it difficult to believe that she'd be good at martial arts.
"The other day, she dressed up as a man and met Hansen in the Spring Restaurant. I saw she launch a sneak attack. She was
swift and Hansen didn't find that."
"Do you want somebody to test her?" Denny made a gesture by drawing a straight line over his neck. If Harper was a spy for
Charles, then they should kill her.
Matthew shook his head. Charles didn't care for his daughter, and Harper felt the same way. She'd been subjected to many
faithful "accidents" orchestrated by her own father. If there was one thing he was certain about, it was that the two weren't in the
same boat.

an imperial physician. I want to know who taught her the methods of autopsy, given that its technicalities and fundamentals are far from treating patients." He remembered the way

she was brilliant enough to have fooled them all! "I have to investigate her," Denny said. "Women are always known to be good at acting. Moreover, they also have the fair share of killing men due

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