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Chapter 112 Plans (Part One)
Hailey worked fast. After just two days, she came across the book which Harper had preparedespecially for her. Based on what she discovered in the medical book, she decided to perform a bloodtest on Sue. To her surprise, the result matched the description written in the medical book.
"My Lady..." Abigail, Hailey's maid, was too shocked to finish her words.
"Mother was poisoned!" Hailey exclaimed. "Harper probably wasn't expecting that I would actuallycheck the medical books or even borrow these medical books from her. Otherwise, she would havealready disposed of this medical book long ago."
"My Lady, are you implying that Lady Harper poisoned Lady Sue?" Abigail asked, confused.
"Of course. Who else could it be?" Hailey said in a cold tone. "Think about it. Who's benefiting mostfrom Mother's illness?"
"Of course it's Lady Harper, My Lady. She has taken over the domestic affairs of the mansion eversince Lady Sue has gotten ill. Right now, she holds a power that's befitting her identity," Abigail said,taking a guess. "Even if we know that Lady Harper poisoned Lady Sue, we don't have any evidence toprove it."novelbin
"This is the evidence!" Hailey blurted out as she waved the medical book she was holding in her hand."Harper is the best physician in the mansion. It will be easy for her to do some research and make thepoison, Nightmare. I must tell Father about the truth. Now that she dared to poison Mother, I'm sureshe would have no qualms about poisoning Father as well. Father is going to hate such a vile woman."
"That's right. Prime Minister Charles will seek vengeance for Lady Sue," Abigail nodded.
Without delay, Hailey went to see Charles, who just got back home from the imperial court session. Hisface darkened almost instantly at the sight of Hailey scurrying toward him. "What is it? What is so
urgent?"
"Father, it's serious. Someone has poisoned Mother!"
As soon as Hailey said those words, Charles felt his eyelids twitch. Were people aware that hepoisoned Sue? How could they have found out? Nightmare was a type of poison that couldn't possiblybe discovered by any test. Apart from that, Kelly, his first wife, had also been given the same poisonand no one had ever suspected and found out about it even after all this time.
"What on earth are you talking about? That's nonsense. Your mother is ill because she has beendepressed for a long time. No one poisoned her!" Charles snapped at her. The thought of what peoplewere going to say if they found out the truth made him shudder. How could he possibly look his son anddaughters in the eye ever again?
"Father, believe me. It's true. Mother has been poisoned. They used a poison called Nightmare. I havea feeling that Harper did it in order to take control of the mansion," Hailey quickly said despite havingno evidence to back it up.
"Nonsense!" From what she said, it was apparent that Hailey didn't know. This made Charles feel sorelieved. "How can you say such things with a straight face? Why are you being so mean to yoursister? She is not as bad as you think."
Hearing him say that made Hailey feel a bit anxious. She brought out the medical book, showed it toCharles and said, "Father, take a look at this. This is the medical book I found in Harper's study. Itclearly records the poison called Nightmare, its symptoms and the way to test it. I have already done atest on Mother. She was indeed poisoned with Nightmare. Given the fact that it is a very gentle poison,whoever wants it to work has to add it into Mother's food or drink every day. Father, please give yourcommand. We're going to catch this person."
Taking the medical book, Charles went ahead and read it carefully. This sent a shiver down his spine.This book belonged to Harper, so she must have read it already. Had Harper ever doubted about Sue'sillness? If that were the case and she found out about Nightmare, would she begin to suspect that hehad done the same thing to Kelly? No! No! That couldn't be! Harper was still an infant when Kelly died.There was no way for her to know about it. Right now, all he had to do is make sure Hailey wouldn't saya word to others about her suspicion and the contents of the book. If he managed to do that, everythingwould be just fine.
"Well, your mother was not poisoned, dear. Poison, Nightmare, these are all just utter nonsense. Youshouldn't be reading this kind of book." Saying that, he proceeded to tear up the medical book to get ridof the evidence. Hailey's eyes were wide open in disbelief as she watched this. Sue's life was on theline and yet her father didn't even care about it, not even a bit. What was worse, he simply tore up thebook that could have helped them save her mother's life.
"Father, Mother was really poisoned. Please trust me on this..."
"That's enough. I don't want to hear you talking about this anymore. The family physician had alreadysaid that your mother is just suffering from a bout of depression. She is still mad at me because I didn'tsave your sister. It's all my fault. When she comes to her senses, she will make a full recovery. Stopoverthinking things. You'd better think more about how you're going to won the favor of the crownprince." Charles gave her a talking-to. After all, he knew better than anyone else whether Sue wasreally poisoned or not as well as the type of poison Sue had been given. If he hadn't poisoned Suehimself, he would have probably believed Hailey's words that Sue had been poisoned by Harper.
"Then Father, please excuse me." Gritting her teeth in anger, Hailey took her leave. She had alreadymade up her mind about catching the perpetrator red-handed, but no matter how hard she tried toprotect Sue, Sue was still getting weaker day by day, which could only mean that Sue was still being
given regular doses of the poison. If things continued going on like this, Sue was going to die verysoon.
All of this was making Hailey both anxious and angry. If Sue were to succumb to the poison, she wouldlose her status. After so many years of planning and calculating, Sue was still a mere concubine on theofficial records, which meant Hailey was only a concubine's daughter. Sue had been trying very hard topersuade Harper into making Hailey Kelly's daughter on the records, but Harper strongly disapprovedof it. That was the reason why they wanted to get rid of Harper in the first place. However, Harpermanaged to survive.
"My Lady, what are we supposed to do next? I boiled the herbs myself. I had my eyes on it during theentire time and I was sure no one touched it, but it was still poisoned. What should we do? If it keepsgoing on like this, Lady Sue wouldn't last very long." Abigail was getting so worked up. They still hadn'tcaught the person who was poisoning Sue. On top of that, they didn't even have any idea how thatperson did it. Now, Sue was spending more time sleeping than awake. Her condition was worsening atan alarming rate.