Forensic Imperial Concubine by Erika Black

Chapter 568

"I've confirmed it with the imperial physician. The imperial physician said that Francis has long suffered from a serious chronic
illness, and his current condition is just a momentary improvement before death. Some days ago, he was seriously ill, and it was
doubtful that he would survive past New Year's Day. Strangely, he has become much better after leaving the Imperial Palace. He
even had the strength to ward off the sword which would have killed Father. His illness... Don't you think it's rather hard to
explain?" said Felix.
"I have also heard from the imperial physician that he was born a very weak body," answered the empress, her eyes lighting up.
"Mother, do you find it believable?" Felix was obviously unimpressed by what she said. If Francis was really born with a weak
body, how could it be possible for him to recover as soon as he moved out of the Imperial Palace? There must be something he
didn't know.
Holding her teacup in her hands, the empress fell into silence. She had guessed what was going on with Francis' body, but she
didn't have any evidence to prove that Francis' weakness was just a pretense. On her second thought, it seemed to her that
Francis could not possibly be a threat to her and her son. After all, a prince with so little time left to live surely couldn't be the next
emperor. However, she was still worried that the Bu Clan would be foolish enough to support Francis.
"What is the Bu Clan's position?" the empress asked in a contemplative voice. The Bu Clan held the greatest prestige among the
civil officials. If they supported Francis, then he would be competitive despite his poor health.

"The Bu Clan was summoned to visit Francis," Felix said as a surge of resentment arose from his heart. He was also the
emperor's son, and had been proclaimed to be the crown prince by the emperor himself. But over the years, the emperor had
shown him very little favor, and had even been on his guard against him. The two of them were not at all like father and son.

He and his wife treated me with extraordinary hostility," Felix said, gritting his teeth. He ached with resentment whenever he thought of the big pearl on the dog's neck. "Oh, really? What happened?"

that. She felt so provoked by that story that she immediately smashed the teacup in her hand onto the floor. The maids were so scared that they kneeled on the floor at once. Hearing the chaos inside the room, Nancy quickly came in, cleaned away the porcelain fragments from the floor, wiped up the tea on the floor, and then made another cup of tea for the empress. After doing all this quickly, she waited quietly outside at

"Mother, we can't just sit still and wait for death. When Hoffman offended Uncle Matthew before, Uncle Matthew partnered with
us to get rid of him. Now I'm afraid he has us in his target. If we just sit still, we'll be in trouble," Felix reasoned. "Francis is on
good terms with Uncle Matthew nowadays. If he wants to use Francis to deal with us, we will both be in danger."
The empress of course fully understood what Felix meant. Matthew was good at using the hands of others to get rid of his
enemies. And even if they were killed directly by Matthew, it was highly unlikely that the emperor would bring justice to them.
Maybe the emperor would even create an accusation of treason in order to assuage Matthew. In such a situation, they would be
totally out of luck and have no way to prove themselves innocent.

soon," the empress remarked after a long silence. "Father's birthday party will be held on the second of February. We still have more than two months to prepare," Felix said after a long, thoughtful silence. "Mother, what do you think?" "How about that certain person you have prepared?" the empress inquired softly, looking at

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