Everyone looks sulky by hearing this. Things change so fast in such a short time. Wendy can’t imagine why this time is so complicated? “I thought the lotus soup could detoxicate everything, isn’t that correct? How possible?” She questions doctor Zhuge, then returns inside. The room is back to gloomy once again, from the joy of the newborn. Zack hugs Zena, weeping on the her bed quietly. Wendy moves to them slowly, she feels her pulses and she can’t feel anything! At the same time, Zena’s face and lips turn from pale to dark! It seems like one drop of dark blood ran out from her mouth before, then it dried and remained on her lips. Her eyes are opened widely, with bloodshot. It’s the same symptom as poisoning. Perhaps, someone put something in her lotus soup?! Wendy doesn’t have time to think at this point, she calls the doctor around to make the acupuncture for Princess Zena as soon as possible, maybe, she still can be saved!
“Hurry! Prepare the water with salt! Bring a lot!” Wendy yells to the servants around. She doesn’t want to give her up. Because of her acupuncture points are still closed, so the poisonous parts might not spread that fast. She only needs to seize the time and get the poison out! Making every possible effort! “Holding her up gently for me, your majesty! Be very careful with her wound on the stomach!” She says to Prince Zack. Zack nods slowly, wiping his tears off and holds her up. After a while, the salty water comes, Wendy tries the water temperature with her index finger. Then she turns to servants for hot mung bean soup. That’s her last way to get Princess Zena back from hell, though she has not much confidence about it…
Wendy takes a golden spoon, then feeds the salty water to Zena’s mouth. However, her body doesn’t want to accept it, so the water always splits out! Everything seems hopeless now, if she can’t swallow it. “Princess, please! Please wake up and drink this! That’s the only chance I can take you back! Think about your seven-month-old baby, and your husband Zack! Your baby can’t grow without a mother! And think about your parents, what a heartbreak it is? So please, Princess, please wake up for the people you love!” Wendy cries as though that is HER on the bed, her cold body! And how her brother and parents gonna feel when they see her dead body lying on the cold morgue bed… She didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye to them.
She keeps feeding Zena water, then runs the external cardiac impression and artificial respiration, time after time no matter what! She must bring her back, for everyone! She can’t confirm she will rescue her, well, she can also confirm that Zena is suffering from the shock, and she is not dead yet. Besides, without the advanced technology instruments, she can’t do anything that’s true. So the only hope depends on the Princess herself, if she’s strong enough to wake up and breaks the limit, then she should be fine.
The King is also pissed waiting outside, he feels someone tries to challenge his authority under his eyes! He orders his guards to investigate clearly who tries to poison Princess Zena? About Sung, he doesn’t like this sort of plot either. He asked to join the investigation as well. The King agrees then Sung goes to search the whole palace for it with his people. At the beginning, they searched the people who took the lotus from the freezer, prepared it, and brought it to the Princess. He has checked anyone who ever touched the lotus, still, no one should be under suspected… The lotus was taken by the main servant eunuch, Wei, from the King, and two servants together from the freezer. Wei watched them the whole way. Then the lotus was sent to the Imperial Academy of Medicine. Next, the boiling part made by Doctor Chen, cause lotus is too precious to find in this country. Eunuch Wei watched the whole time standing there as well. At last, the soup was brought by maid Violet, who’s from Empress Ron, to Princess Zena directly, Wei was there also. So no one ever has a chance to touch this precious soup!
At first, Sung suspected Wei before, after he knew Wei didn’t get any chance to touch it and others told the same thing to Sung. So physically, he’s innocent. On the contrary, everyone of them could be the prisoner, cause they all proved for each other, that they were innocent! They are bounded as the hands in gloves.
On Wendy’s side, she already feeds her too much salty water, as well as mung bean soup! Zena can’t have them more, it’s enough. Mung bean soup is too cold for her body, for the pregnant woman. However, Wendy has no choice. There’s no such tool for cleaning her stomach here. Wendy has to reach into her throat to force her to split the poison out, which may reduce her vitality a lot. Zack sits aside, crying by covering his eyes; and shaking with his tears running down through his fingers to the ground. His heart breaks into pieces. On the other side, Wendy doesn’t give it up, she asks the doctor to help with rubbing Zena’s philtrum together as well. She also asks for Ganoderma soup for strengthen her heart, this may help her with poisonous and heart failure. Seeing Zena has spotted enough, she feeds her Ganoderma soup, one after one… until she can wake up.
It’s been like hours, everyone else is still waiting outside, with curiosity and anxiety. Except for Lacey, she hopes Wendy fails! She doesn’t dislike Princess Zena, only Wendy. If Wendy fails this time, then it’s less dangerous for her to survive here. At first Wendy saved the baby, and won the good impression of the Queen and Empress Ron, even the King started to adore her! If she succeeds again, she will win Prince Zack’s heart. Later on, she’s not gonna be easy to get on the Royal Princess position, Lacey thinks.
About other princesses here, most of them who have lived here long enough, just want Zena can survive and get well, women understand each other really well, especially in the palace! They are just tools sometimes, for helping with the generation for this country. That’s sad but true.
The Queen and Empress Ron are praying in the buddha hall. Both of them hope Zena would be safe and sound. However, the expression on Ron’s face looks quite abnormal, it’s too complicated to guess. The King is waiting back in his palace too. He understands Zack a lot, how much he worries, and how scares to lose someone he loves. A long time ago, the King himself experienced the same situation as Zack.
In the room, Prince Zack has stopped crying, his face has changed to fierce. He decides to suicide himself in front of everyone if Zena would die! He can’t live alone in this world, or marries to another woman. That’s how loyalty he is! He is loyal to this country, as well as to his woman! He is a true hero! If Zena survives this time, his’s mission is to take care of her and his son for the rest of his life.
Another hour passes by, Wendy still tries her best to save her, even the doctors feel hopeless aside. “Princess Yasmin, it’s enough, you may let her go… Don’t make her suffer anymore…” Zack gives up already, he’s tired. Wendy looks at him, anxiety, “Hey, don’t you give up on her! She is not dead yet, I knew it! She just needs to wake up herself!” Zack laughs, replies with hopeless, “She stopped breathing, Yasmin. No need to courage me around. Let her rest in peace.” He pushes Wendy away, then carries her up, “Zena, my Zena, let’s go home.” Zack stands up, walks toward the door.
“Please, please your majesty! She’s not dead, just the poison inside makes her stop breathing! I can save her if she wakes up! Let me try more, please!” Wendy stops him in front, she’s all wet inside and out. Zack shakes his head in sadness, keeps moving out. Suddenly, Wendy slaps him then yells, “Put her down! She is my patient now, you can’t take her away!” Her gesture shocks everyone in the room, the same as Zack. He looks at her angrily, “She is dead now! Why you make her suffer?”