I insist

Chapter 260: Lessons

Seeing this scene out of the corner of her eye, Song Miqiu tried her best to suppress her laughter. She followed the emperor into the bedroom at the fastest speed she had ever been, and at the same time, she took the emperor's pulse very quickly.

After doing all this, Song Miqiu immediately took her medicine box back to the Imperial Hospital. She sat in a corner and made sure no one was around before she dared to laugh out loud.

But Song Miqiu's voice was not loud, it was very soft.

She was overjoyed. Every time Song Miqiu closed her eyes, all she could think about was the image of the Empress Dowager fainting when she saw the gifts the Emperor had given her.

She could swear she had never seen anyone so joyful.

Thinking of the Empress Dowager's discomfitured expression, Song Miqiu felt that she had been very successful in pretending to be weak in front of the Emperor. At least she had not only fooled the Emperor, but also punished the Empress Dowager.

But before Song Miqiu could even enjoy himself for half a day, an unbelievable rumor began to circulate.

She had just washed her hands when a royal physician suddenly ran over. He looked Song Miqiu up and down, his eyes filled with disbelief, but he dared not approach her to ask any questions.

After a few rounds, Song Miqiu became somewhat impatient.

She frowned at the person in front of her, tossed all the medicinal herbs in her hand into the bamboo basket, and impatiently questioned, "What exactly do you want?"

"There's something I want to ask you." Seeing that Song Miqiu had taken the initiative to ask him, the imperial physician glanced at the people around him and cautiously walked up to her. "Did His Majesty really fall in love with you at first sight?"

He made a gesture with his hands and whispered, "You and the Emperor really..."

Song Miqiu was speechless when she saw the imperial physician making two thumbs-up gestures to her.

With her hands on her hips, she glanced at the imperial physician's inquisitive expression and asked irritably, "Where did you get the idea that the Emperor and I could fall in love at first sight?"

If Song Miqiu hadn't looked in the mirror earlier, she would have wondered when the human skin mask on her face had fallen off.

"Oh!" The imperial physician immediately stood up straight. Seeing that Song Miqiu still dared not admit it, he quickly said, "Some people saw it all. They saw the Emperor punish the Empress Dowager for your sake! And he even bestowed treasures upon you!"

"And the Emperor, who had been staying indoors all this time, only stepped out of his bedchamber for you!"

The imperial physician's words left Song Miqiu speechless. She hadn't expected that the scene from yesterday had been witnessed.

She paused for a moment, then immediately tried to defend herself, “You’re wrong. I’m treating the Emperor because he’s showing signs of a stroke. If I don’t keep giving him medicine and taking his pulse, I won’t know how far his condition has progressed.”

"And the Emperor understood this, so he took the initiative to rescue me and treat my illness. What's wrong with that?"

"What about the reward you were supposed to give for putting the Empress Dowager in confinement?" the imperial physician continued to question, his face full of displeasure.

This left Song Miqiu speechless. She strongly suspected that the person who witnessed the scene had seen it later, otherwise they wouldn't have said such misunderstandings!

"The Empress Dowager wanted to kill me, but the chief eunuch couldn't stop her. The Emperor came out and calmed her down. At the same time, to appease me, the Emperor bestowed this treasure upon me."

Now the imperial physician had grasped another key point: "If the emperor doesn't like you and hasn't fallen in love with you at first sight, why would he need to appease your emotions?"

Song Miqiu was momentarily speechless; she didn't know how to refute the imperial physician's words.

But Song Miqiu knew that the emperor could never fall in love with her. Given her appearance, the only possibility was that the emperor was blind.

Too lazy to say anything to the imperial physician, she bent down and took away her bamboo basket of medicinal herbs.

Song Miqiu was idly strolling around the palace when he overheard people talking in a corridor. He wanted to leave, since eavesdropping was wrong, but then he heard his own name mentioned.

She paused, stood in a corner, and listened carefully to their conversation.

"Hey, what do you guys think? Are those rumors circulating in the palace these past few days true or false?"

"I think it's fake. After all, with Physician Song's appearance, how could the Emperor possibly bring himself to kiss her? If she can do it, then we can too!"

"But don't you think it was Physician Song who seduced the Emperor? If she's so old, she might not be able to resist her flirtatious nature and might use all her charms in front of the Emperor."

"According to what you've said, Physician Song's position and reputation have been rising steadily recently. Is that how he got to his position?"

They both laughed at what they had said.

"Perhaps, otherwise how could even the Empress Dowager be no match for her?"

Hearing this, Song Miqiu was furious. She never expected that these palace maids, who seemed harmless on the surface, would talk about people like this behind their backs!

Thinking of this, she coldly glanced at the group, strode forward, and argued with them sharply, "You don't know the whole story, yet you slander people so casually. You're really something."

The palace maids were startled by Song Miqiu's sudden appearance. They looked at each other, and seeing that there was no one else around, they immediately mocked, "Oh, you did something filthy and you don't want us to talk about it? Who knows if you've done such disgusting things behind my back?"

"Otherwise, given your advanced age, if your medical skills were truly excellent, you wouldn't have waited until these past few years to enter the Imperial Medical Academy. You should have been in the same batch as Physician Ming long ago."

One of the maids stepped forward with an innocent expression. She tugged at Song Miqiu's clothes and blinked, "Imperial Physician Song, how did you manage to seduce the Emperor? Teach us, we also want to rise to the top!"

"Comparing her to a phoenix is ​​a bit too insulting to the phoenix."

One after another, they spoke, which angered Song Miqiu to the point that a cold glint appeared in her eyes. She then forcefully pressed the acupoints on the bodies of several palace maids.

As the other person recoiled in pain, Song Miqiu slapped them hard across the face.

Not satisfied with that, Song Miqiu used all her strength to give them a good beating, and the people who had been standing in front of her immediately became obedient.

They quickly raised their hands in surrender, crying, "We were wrong! We were really wrong!"

Song Miqiu looked down at them and spat, "You dare to talk about others without any real ability? You've really got some nerve!"

"If I ever see you talking badly about me again, it won't be so simple! Then I'll let you experience the Imperial Physician's revenge!"

Song Miqiu cursed several times before she finally felt relieved. She let out a heavy breath and turned around to see the Seventh Prince standing not far away, staring at her.

This gave Song Miqiu quite a fright.