Ever since Lin Qing was recommended to enter the palace to perform acupuncture and nurse the Empress Dowager's phoenix body back to health, she would occasionally be summoned into the palace, and by the logic of loving the house and its crow, Empress Dowager Wang also favored her a little.
Thus, Lin Qing had recently been entering the palace more often than Song Ci, this old and feeble one.
"The Empress Dowager is quite all right, only now that summer has set in, her appetite is a bit poorer, though it's nothing serious. Her body still needs careful conditioning, after all, it has suffered damage." Lin Qing said this somewhat tactfully.
But Song Ci understood perfectly well what that damage was from—naturally it was that radiation incident.
A body that has been exposed to radiation, and is elderly on top of that—no matter how nicely you dress it up, it's still just talk.
