After traveling through time, the adults were completely in my hands

The Yue State delegation led by Jing Yu traveled day and night and finally returned to the imperial city. Before entering the palace, Jing Yu asked Jin Dou to change into the clothes of his personal guard to avoid arousing suspicion.

Because he was worried about his mother's health, Jing Yu reported the situation of the diplomatic mission to his father, and then led Jindou and hurried to the temple where his mother was.

The temple where the Empress moved was not far from the capital and was a royal temple.

Jindou followed Jingyu into the temple and came to the room where the Queen was. The palace maids and guards standing outside the room knelt down hurriedly to salute when they saw the Prince coming. Jingyu waved his hand to let them stand up, then pushed the door and walked in.

Nanny Li, who had been taking care of the queen, was standing by the bed in the room. When she saw the prince come in, she was very excited and knelt down quickly and said, "Your Highness the Prince."

Jing Yu waved his hand and said, "Get up," and then hurried to his mother's bed.

Jindou also walked over and saw a woman lying on the bed with her eyes closed. She was as thin as a skeleton, and her pale face without any blood had a faint bluish-gray color, as if she was a dying person.

No one would have thought that this woman was once the mother of a country and the most favored in the harem.

Jindou was sighing in his heart when he heard Jingyu ask Li Ma, "Has anyone come to see the Queen Mother these days?"

"Your Highness, the Imperial Concubine and the Taoist Priest have been here twice."

Nanny Li looked at the Empress lying on the bed and whispered, "Your Highness, I have always felt that every time the Imperial Concubine and the Taoist priest come to see the Empress, her condition gets worse. However, every time they come, they ask everyone in the room to leave, so I don't know what's going on."

After hearing what Nanny Li said, Jing Yu slowly clenched his hands that were hanging at his waist into fists. Ever since his mother suddenly fell ill with a strange disease, he suspected that it was the Imperial Concubine and the old Taoist priest who were behind it. However, he had no evidence and could only watch his mother suffer torture every day. He felt heartbroken but was powerless to do anything.

"Mother," Jing Yu lowered his head and whispered softly in the Queen's ear, "Mother, your son is here to see you."

Nanny Li also came forward and called softly, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince has come to see you. Please open your eyes and take a look."

Perhaps because of the bond between mother and child, the Queen's eyelids moved, and then she slowly opened her eyes. However, her two deep-sunken eyeballs were empty and lifeless, revealing a sense of numbness.

"Mother!" Jing Yu was overjoyed when he saw his mother open her eyes, and called out again quickly.

It’s a pity that the Queen Mother just looked up with dull eyes and didn’t respond to Jing Yu’s call.

Jindou was standing by, carefully examining the Queen. He saw a very obvious gray line just above the Queen's eyes, and a gray line also prominent at the philtrum below her nose. Her face was pale, and the whites of her eyes were also bluish-gray.

Oh, the person who persecuted the Queen was so cruel.

Seeing Jindou sizing up his mother, Jingyu couldn't help but ask, "Jindou, have you found anything?"

"Your Highness, the Queen must have been hit by the twin curse," said Jindou.

"Twin Curse?" Jing Yu was stunned.

"Yes, I saw the curse mark on the Queen's face," Jindou said, looking at the gray mark on the Queen's face.

"This twin curse is..." As the crown prince of a country, Jing Yu is knowledgeable and experienced, but he has never heard of this name.

"It's an extremely sinister and evil spell. The person who casts the spell can manipulate the person by chanting the incantation, causing them to lose their mind and speak nonsense. Furthermore, because the spell is lingering in the body, the person will suffer from pain day and night, but will not die immediately. Life and death are completely controlled by the person who cast the spell."

When Jing Yu heard this, his face darkened.

Jindou continued, "The so-called Twin Curse is that when the person who casts the spell casts it on someone else, the spell also enters their own body. This way, they can sense and control the other person at any time and in any place."

After listening to Jindou, Jingyu looked at his mother lying on the hospital bed, and his heart was broken for a moment.

My mother is a kind-hearted, gentle and honest person. Although she is the mother of a country, she has always been kind to others and has never bullied the weak. But now, she is being tortured by such vicious and evil magic.

Thinking of this, Jing Yu couldn't help but be filled with anger. He wished he could find the person who cast the curse immediately and cut him into pieces.

After trying hard to calm down, Jing Yu asked Jin Dou: "Is it possible to break this curse?"

Jindou nodded, looking at the miserable state of the Empress being tortured by the curse caster, and said to Jingyu: "Your Highness, when I unleash the evil curse, the curse caster will surely suffer a backlash. When that happens, this person will look ten times more miserable than the Empress!"

The Twin Curse can only be lifted by the person who cast the curse, but there are some curse-breaking experts who can use some spells to draw out the evil curse from the body of the cursed person.

The person who casts a curse is most afraid of encountering this kind of curse-breaking expert, because once the evil curse in the body of the cursed person is drawn out by someone else, the evil curse will return to the body of the person who cast the curse and backfire on him. At that time, the two curses will combine, and the pain will be twice that of the person who was cursed before.

Although Jindou did not dare to call himself a master, he knew some methods of inducing curses, and he was confident that he could draw out the evil curse from the Queen's body.

At this time, in the imperial concubine's palace, Imperial Concubine Ji, wearing a green gauze skirt, was reclining on a soft couch.

There were two palace maids beside her, one was standing by, gently fanning with a silk fan, and the other was kneeling beside the soft couch, carefully massaging Concubine Ji's legs with her hands.

Concubine Ji fiddled with her fingers, which had just been stained with bright red kodan, and said lazily to Taoist Wuwang who was sitting below, "Master, are you sure that the spell you cast will not be discovered by the Crown Prince?"

Taoist Wuwang stroked his beard with his hand and said with a firm face: "Don't worry, my lady. The curse I cast can only be broken by me."

"Okay," Noble Concubine Ji nodded with satisfaction. She extended her hand and asked the maid beside her to help her sit up. She said, "In two days, it will be my birthday. There will be a grand banquet in the palace, and all the civil and military officials will be invited to congratulate me. I have already agreed with the Emperor to propose that I become the next empress at the banquet."

Concubine Ji looked at Taoist Wuwang and said, "I hope you will be careful and cautious these next two days and not let the Crown Prince catch you in any way."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty," said Taoist Wuwang, "I have planned everything thoroughly and will never let the Crown Prince find out anything."

Concubine Ji nodded and said, "In that case, I thank you very much, Taoist priest. When I become the queen, I will definitely not treat you unfairly."

Upon hearing this, Taoist Wuwang smiled flatteringly: "Your Highness, your Royal Concubine is blessed with great fortune, and I will do my utmost to help you."