Consort Zhang knew she was finished. Her face was so pale that there was not a trace of blood left, and she no longer had the strength to argue.
The Empress looked on at her own masterpiece with satisfaction. This trick she had once mastered to perfection, and now, after years of disuse, it still worked just as well.
First, they were fed a packet of hallucinogenic drugs, then tortured. In such a state, half real, half illusionary, they would honestly spill everything when asked.
The Kitchen Maid, seeing that Consort Zhang had already fallen from grace, kowtowed non-stop to the Empress, and spilled all of Consort Zhang's wrongdoings in one breath.
From the first time she poisoned Lin Qianqing, to after the Madams entered the Prince Residence and she gave them infertility soups, drugged them.... She continued until she reached the last one, a young girl who had just entered the Residence.
