Chapter 460
Now that she’d figured out the key to it all, Kelsey felt a huge weight lift off her shoulders.
Right away, Kelsey dispatched servants to Saint Jero Clinic to resume making the medicine.
However, Kelsey had gravely underestimated both the power of rumors and the resolve of the commoners.
Even the free herbal medicine went untouched because they were utterly convinced that masks were a cure-all.
After all, ever since people started wearing these masks, the spread of the disease had truly been prevented.
Some even scoffed at the idea of herbal medicine. “Why should I drink this bitter stuff when I’m perfectly healthy?”
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He then triumphantly brandished the mask in his hand. “This mask is all I need!”
The turn of events caught Kelsey and Willow off guard.
No matter how hard Kelsey and Willow pleaded, the commoners simply refused to listen.
After a day or two without incident, Kelsey and Willow gradually let their guard down.
Seeing the commoners stubbornly refused to drink herbal medicine, Kelsey and Willow gave up trying to persuade them.
The rumors couldn’t be contained. Instead, they spiraled out of control.
It wasn’t until the fourth day that everything took a turn for the worse.
Suddenly, a third of the Osborne family’s servants collapsed with illness, their symptoms identical to the plague: persistent high fever, violent coughing, and debilitating body aches with profound weakness.
Kelsey’s face drained of color with fright. She frantically ordered disinfection with spirits, but it was already too late.
By nightfall, Kelsey had collapsed with illness.
The disease progressed at terrifying speed. She was burning with fever and babbling deliriously, hovering at death’s door.
As the daughter-in-law, Willow dutifully attended to Kelsey’s bedside, serving water and tending to her every need.
Doctors came to the Osborne family wave after wave, yet none could find a remedy for Kelsey’s worsening condition.
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