"Carry him," King Aenon ordered the guards and asked them to take him back to his room. Empress created a show over reacting which made Rivera quickly understand the intentions and played along.
"That's nice if you to worry about your husband, I was not expecting this," Rivera whispered while the men were busy helping The Emperor drink some water waking his conscious. He coughed badly.
"It is just that he caught cold from drinking the plum wine," The Empress told her old friend in her ear.
"And is it the elixir that takes the heat in your body away?" Rivera asked. Empress could not help but smile when she mentioned about the elixir. "Nothing seems changed," Rivera said and sat straight putting on the worried expression.