"Is there anything that can't be said in private?" The Empress Dowager still appeared impatient.
Zhao Junyao smiled faintly.
"There is much to attend to today. The Empress Dowager might as well bear with it."
Having said this, he glanced at Luo Manman.
"Repeat what you just said in front of the Empress Dowager!"
Luo Manman turned pale upon hearing this, trembling and kneeling, stammering.
She seemed afraid to speak, yet even more afraid not to, as if she dared not offend anyone.
Zhao Junyao remained utterly unhurried.
The Empress Dowager, however, felt an inexplicable panic.
"What exactly was said? Speak quickly!"
Luo Manman, terrified, could no longer hesitate and directly spilled out the truth.
"Responding to... the Emperor, it was... Wanxin by the Empress Dowager's side who gave me a bottle of poison, instructing me to find an opportunity to administer it to Your Majesty while attending to you!"
