Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

Given the emperor's current condition, the chances of him waking up are slim.

In the past, when the emperor died, his concubines were required to be buried with him.

The standard for selecting people was that "all concubines who had not given birth should be executed!"

Fortunately, Emperor Yingzong was benevolent and abolished the practice of concubines being buried alive with the emperor; otherwise, he would not have dared to use this method.

After all, just over a month ago, she had absolutely no idea whether she was pregnant or not.

Unexpectedly, she was quite lucky; she hadn't had her period for two months, and when Xu Kun took her pulse, it turned out she was pregnant.

In this way, Empress Fang had a reason to appoint herself as a concubine on behalf of the emperor in the name of bringing good fortune.

Strangely enough, when a woman becomes pregnant, she usually experiences some reactions, such as suddenly craving sour foods or even vomiting from time to time.

I didn't have any of these reactions.

Moreover, in the first few days of serving at the emperor's bedside, a strange thing happened to me.

On one occasion, he somehow fell asleep in front of the imperial bed.

After waking up, I felt a dull ache in my lower abdomen, but it wasn't very intense; it was milder than the pain I experienced after eating cold food during my period.

For the next few days, I experienced a dull ache in my lower abdomen similar to that of menstruation, along with a small amount of light red fluid discharge.

The amount is very small, roughly equivalent to the amount in the last two days before the end of menstruation.

Moreover, it was still about half a month before my period was due, and there's no reason why my period would come so early.

The key point is that all the symptoms disappeared after a few days, so it must have just been some other minor ailment.

Of course, that doesn't matter anymore.

Now that everything has settled, even if the emperor is dead, she is still a concubine of the late emperor, so there shouldn't be any problem protecting herself.

. . .

At the same time.

Lu Chen sat in front of the imperial couch, looking at the face on the bed that was almost identical to his own.

At this point, more than fifty days had passed since the night of the palace coup.

Prolonged bed rest and coma, sustained only by liquid food, caused the Jiajing Emperor, who was only in his thirties, to visibly become emaciated.

He was not fat to begin with, but now he looks very thin, and his cheeks are sunken.

In this era, if a patient in a coma remained unconscious for half a month, the family could basically start preparing for their funeral.

Even the emperor, with the best doctors and the best care, and with precious medicinal herbs like ginseng used to prepare liquid food to keep him alive at all costs, was already nearing his limit.

Ten days ago, Xu Kun only dared to promise himself that the Jiajing Emperor would hold on for another month.

If the Jiajing Emperor cannot wake up within twenty days, he may never wake up again.

In recent days, Lu Chen had actually used his mental power to carefully scan Emperor Jiajing's body many times.

The bruises from being strangled by a palace maid and the dozen or so wounds from being pierced by a hairpin that day have long since healed.

The body's injuries have healed, so why is the patient still unconscious?

The only thing Lu Chen could think of was that the problem was in his brain.

The feedback obtained by telekinesis is similar to tactile feedback. Lu Chen dares to perform minimally invasive surgery on his body because blood vessels, tendons, muscles, and even internal organs are all easily perceived through touch.

Moreover, these areas have a certain margin of error, so even if a minor mistake occurs during minimally invasive surgery, there are ways to remedy it.

For example, a little over a month ago, Lu Chen secretly used his telekinesis to press on Chen Furong's carotid aorta, which was guarding the imperial bed, causing her to faint on the spot. He then used his telekinesis to make her appear to be fast asleep because she was too tired.

Then, using his mental power, he gradually severed the nerves and major blood vessels in her uterine lining, simulating an endometrial ablation procedure performed in a modern hospital.

This is also the least invasive menopausal surgery. It is minimally invasive, and the postoperative feeling is similar to mild menstrual cramps. Most patients feel no pain at all after two or three days.

After recovery, the patient will no longer have menstruation, will not be able to get pregnant, and will have normal endocrine function, and will not enter menopause prematurely.

During this minimally invasive surgery, Lu Chen did make a few minor mistakes, but they did not affect the overall outcome of the surgery, nor would they cause the other party to lose their life.

But brain surgery is a completely different story.

Brain tissue is so fragile that even the slightest carelessness can lead to unpredictable consequences.

If it's about killing someone, using telekinesis to attack brain tissue would naturally have an immediate and effective result.

But if it's about saving someone, the difficulty is extremely high, and there's absolutely no chance of success.

This is also why Lu Chen has never done so.

After learning that Emperor Jiajing could only live for another month at most, Lu Chen finally decided to try his luck, even if it seemed hopeless.

Of course, the necessary preparations still need to be made.

During the days when Empress Fang was arranging to bestow the title of Consort Jing upon Chen Furong to bring good fortune to the Emperor, Lu Chen secretly used his mental powers to scan the brains of many people.

Try to remember as much as possible the sensation of your mind sweeping across different areas of a healthy person's brain.

Of course, the telekinesis was just a scan; no force was applied, so the other party couldn't sense it at all.

Now, it's finally time to give it a try.

He activated his telekinetic power instantly, entering beneath the skull of the Jiajing Emperor.

Soon, Lu Chen sensed through tactile feedback that the Jiajing Emperor's brain tissue was different from the brains of healthy people he had scanned in the past few days.

Some areas feel slightly harder to the touch than the same areas on other people's brains.

Using his limited amateur medical knowledge from before his transmigration, Lu Chen judged that these areas were very likely blood clots!

In later generations, the vast majority of neurosurgical procedures for this condition involved thrombectomy.

However, these blood clots in Emperor Jiajing's brain were not located near the outermost layer of the skull.

Even if it is removed through an opening in the skull, it will inevitably pass through some brain tissue whose function Lu Chen has no idea what, causing unpredictable secondary brain damage.

For more complex procedures, such as thrombectomy via the femoral or radial artery, the requirements for operational precision are even higher.

This requires the blood clot to move slowly, bit by bit, within the very thin blood vessels of the brain, without the slightest mistake.

After weighing the pros and cons, Lu Chen abandoned the most common surgical method used in later generations, which was to remove the blood clot from the body, and instead opted for a method of crushing the blood clot.

Later generations rarely adopted the treatment of thrombus fragmentation, not because it was technically impossible, but because the fragmented thrombus particles could very likely block smaller blood vessels in the surrounding area, causing a wider area of ​​cerebral ischemia.

But at this point, Lu Chen couldn't care less, because this was the last possible solution.

After identifying the largest blood clot, Lu Chen began to use his telekinesis to very carefully crush it bit by bit until the area felt completely indistinguishable from the surrounding tissue.

Then, the second and third blood clots were carefully crushed in the same manner.

Finally, after two hours, Lu Chen used his mental power to carefully scan every area of ​​Emperor Jiajing's brain and found no more lumps.

However, Emperor Jiajing on his imperial bed still did not react.

Lu Chen stood up and walked out of Renshou Palace.

I've done everything I could.

The rest is up to fate!