Emperor Yi Min exclaimed " Ahh, an interesting talent, though your mansion has some issues Minister Go but your daughter is surely interesting".
Concubine Mei while holding her belly elegantly went down the platform, from where she was previously sitting.
Soon, a stage was set, with game board and chess pieces various desert and fruit wine was also brought down
Concubine Mei chose white pieces and HwaHwa chose black pieces, slowly the game progressed, previously Concubine Mei was relaxed as she was proud of her skills even emperor appreciated her talent, what could this little girl do.
But with each move it was clear that Concubine Mei was in the defensive, HwaHwa was in offensive. Now everyone was discussing the game, even emperor was intrigued.
HwaHwa was slowly drinking her fruit wine with a single sip she knew that the wine was poisoned, If she alone get poisoned then Go family will make this a cause and claim someone tried to poison Concubine Mei and mistakenly poisoned HwaHwa. When all of this would be intentional by Go Kang as he will get benefit from Concubine Mei and her family for directing her misfortune to his adopted daughter and HwaHwa would be dead that is two bird with one stone.
But If she did not initiate the game request same thing would happen as the server was same and benefits would go to Go Kang for being a person taking misfortune in place of Concubine Mei.
But what if both of them were poisoned the what would Go Kang do.HwaHwa's ability to recover from poison was not known to Go Kang. Now it was upto HwaHwa to use it for her sake.
But she required for concubine Mei to have her drink to be poisoned too.If both of them would be poisoned then Go Kang would become reason for giving assasin a chance to poison the Concubine by playing the game and his benefit would not be possible but if it is upto HwaHwa she could use it for her benefits,for her freedom.
Otherwise with only her drink poisoned blame would be shifted but with both her and the Concubine poisoned it would be interesting.
To make everyone believe that Concubine Mei drank the poison she needed to drink Concubine Mei's wine from her vessel to be poisoned as well.
In between a crucial point of the game, she deliberately ate some almond give to her and then started coughing and choking as her fruit wine glass was empty. Concubine Mei indicated her maid to serve from her own wine flask. Thanking Concubine Mei she drank from her wine glass, slowly she sprinkled the poison in Concubine Mei wine flask .
As for the type of poison, it was same as she had been given by Go Kang, it was a poison that was known as black heart it was deadly poison of Shadow clan and she had its antidote hidden in her bracelet.Thankfully LinLin has trained her enough to identify and detoxify the poison.
This poison being a part of shadow clan was interesting means that La Kun had missed some disloyal servants.
After making her move she waited, as for herself she had been immune to many poisons including Black heart, but she would have to make herself poisoned as to finally make her move, she needs her life in jeopardy with Concubine Mei.
She looked at Concubine Mei pregnant belly, she had a way to protect the foetus, just that Concubine Mei would suffer for a few minutes.
As game was coming to an end HwaHwa noticed Concubine drinking from her wine flask and slowly ingested shadow poison.
Suddenly Concubine Mei was coughing and blood was spilling from her lips, her eyes panicked looked at HwaHwa in doubt as she saw the young girl also coughing blood. Her eyes widened as a scream spilled out of her lips, making everyone panicked.