478 Bruises

"Your Grace!" A handmaiden dashed down the hallways before dropping to her knees in fear. The double doors to the Empress's estate parted open, but the entrance was blocked by a maidservant.

"Such insolence and this early in the morning too!" the Empress's maidservant barked out irritably. "Speak! What do you want?"

"L-Lady Ge Beining, s-she has been poisoned with aphrodisiac!" Lady Ge Beining's handmaiden pleaded out with shaking eyes. "Lady Ge Beining saw the five intruders in her room and escaped from her bedroom window to search for help, but then someone came up from behind her and force-fed her aphrodisiac!"

"What did you just say?" the Empress harshly demanded from the doorway. 

The Empress glowered at the handmaiden. She was informed of the unfortunate incident yesterday and how the Crown Princess was poisoned at Lady Ge Beining's estate. If Lady Ge Beining was also poisoned yesterday, then why didn't she hear about it?