Chapter 111: Strings of fate entangled together?

"Huh?" Xuan Cheng blinked and then her eyes opened again in her bedroom. She saw how Maid Qu was looking at her weirdly. "What's wrong?" she asked in a puzzled tone.

"Your Highness said that you were hurt...?" Maid Qu replied, still shocked as before.

"Am I not?" Xuan Cheng could not understand her and questioned confused. "But Her Highness, you said as if you were some other person speaking about yourself." Maid Qu said in a manner that made it more complicated.

"What?" Xuan Cheng exclaimed. She could not figure out what Maid Qu was trying to explain. She shook her head and then commanded her, "Prepare for my bath."

Maid Qu blamed herself for speaking too much and annoying her sick master. "Yes, Your Highness," she bowed her head and lift the room.

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- Palace of Dignity-

Sitting at the left side of partition, Zhao Ming was reading a scroll to take his mind off the matter of his uncle Zheng.