"I'm sorry, I've made you laugh again." Shen Jiao smiled.

Wei Lan was struck dumb.

She couldn't believe she had lost so badly. She just couldn't believe it; this was not her usual level of ability.

She roared fiercely, "You just happened to run into me when I wasn't in good form, what are you so smug about? Never won before!"

Shen Jiao has never seen a player who is both bad and makes excuses in the game, but she has seen at least 50.

She helplessly spread her hands: "It's not that I've never won, it's just that I've never lost."

There are very few talented and beautiful girls like her anymore.

Wei Lan was immediately enraged, a surge of anger rising to the top of her head, burning her with extreme discomfort.

Her prized chess skills turned out to be a complete disaster.

The confidence that was once as firm as a rock shattered into dust at this moment.

In the next two matches, Wei Lan performed poorly due to his own shortcomings, and his losses were truly unremarkable.

With the sound of the drumbeat, the outcome was already decided.

"We won! We won! Your Majesty has won!"

"Let's see who dares to mock the Great Yan again! Hahaha... Thanks to Your Majesty, thank you Your Majesty for avenging our shame!"

"I want my father to erect a stone statue of the goddess. As long as I pray diligently enough, my descendants will be as intelligent as the goddess!"

Some people were happy while others were sad. Those who had bet on Wei Lan to win hugged each other and cried. They had lost all their possessions. Would they have to join the Beggars' Sect in the future?

Thus, the Four Flowers Banquet came to a successful conclusion. According to the rules, the winner of the Four Flowers Banquet would receive a reward personally presented by the local emperor.

Shen Jiao stood on the high platform, receiving everyone's attention, but her ears were empty. She obediently winked at Ji Yan not far away, as if to say: Praise me! Praise me! Praise me now!

You are so lucky to have married such a clever, gifted, and extraordinary lady as me without lifting a finger!

Shen Jiao sighed, wondering why there wasn't a competition for poetry and prose. If there were, she would have to write at least five hundred poems to boast about!

Lost in her thoughts, she suddenly heard a cry of alarm: "Your Majesty, be careful!"

Before Shen Jiao could react, she was knocked to the ground by someone.

Ignoring the chaos around her, she stared in shock at the culprit—Liang Heng.

Liang Heng winked at her, then pulled out a bag of blood wrapped in a pig's stomach from somewhere and poured it all under her skirt.

Shen Jiao frowned in disgust: "What kind of show is this now?"

Liang Heng blurted out: "The 'Mother of the Nation, as Beautiful as an Angel, Was Attacked by Thieves During an Awards Ceremony and Suffered a Miscarriage on the Spot!'"

Shen Jiao: "What kind of blood is this?"

Liang Heng: "Chicken blood."

Shen Jiao thought for a moment: "I'm carrying a chick?"

Liang Heng nodded: "That's right, it's Xiao Ji!"

"..." Shen Jiao remained silent for a moment, then realized that the surroundings had become a complete mess.

Some were hiding and fleeing, while others were shouting "Assassination! Help!" In short, it was quite a lively scene.

The assassin who first attacked her had already been pierced through by Ji Yan's sword.

The assassin was dressed as a eunuch, and it took Shen Jiao several glances to recognize him as the young eunuch who had been serving her earlier.

Shen Jiao: "???"

Good heavens, in the midst of my elation, death was right beside me?

The assassin was so close to her, yet Liang Heng pushed him away. Shen Jiao sincerely praised, "I didn't realize, Xiao Liang, that you still have such skills after being a woman for half a month."

Liang Heng: "...Can I say that I was thrown here by His Majesty, who was quick-witted and agile?"

"I see, but have you considered one thing? Isn't this a bit too much blood? Is this really a miscarriage? Or is it postpartum hemorrhage?" Shen Jiao pursed her lips in disgust.

"That's exactly the effect we wanted."

There were already guards surrounding Shen Jiao to protect her. She and Liang Heng whispered to each other for a while without anyone approaching, so they naturally knew exactly what the life-saving doctor Liang was doing.

"It's done." Liang Heng smeared chicken blood on his hands as well, making them look quite creepy.

Before Shen Jiao could remind him that there were chicken feathers on the back of his hand, he stumbled to his feet, his eyes red and swollen, and shouted, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened! The Empress has miscarried! It's all my fault, it's all my fault for being so incompetent in medicine, I couldn't save the little chicken... Your Highness!"

Having said that, disregarding everyone's gaze, he rushed out as if he had been greatly shocked.

Shen Jiao guessed that he had gone to process the pig's stomach, but since the act had already gone this far, she naturally had to continue.

She wailed, "Waaah... my poor little chick, no, waaah... my poor child, you didn't even have a chance to come into this world, and now I, an old woman, am burying my child..."

Ji Yan, who had already rushed over and picked up the frizzy hamster, was speechless.

He silently thought: Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

Shen Jiao opened her hands, which were covering her face, a crack in the screen: "It's no exaggeration, the general public loves this style."

Since her own frizzy hamster liked it, Ji Yan let her have her way, leaving behind the words "kill without mercy" before hurriedly carrying Shen Jiao back to the palace.

As the last actor to finish, Wang Fu naturally had to stay behind to clean up the mess. With tears streaming down his face, he pointed to a pool of blood and said, "Quickly clean up the remains of the little chick... no, the little prince, so that the Empress won't see them and be reminded of him!"

The guards dared not delay and cleaned the ground thoroughly, leaving no trace of blood.

The change happened so fast that the comedy turned into a tragedy, and no one could react in time.

The Shen and Gu families were extremely anxious and at their wits' end.

Murong Chen, who had been hiding in the shadows the whole time, smiled smugly upon seeing this.

It's gone, it's gone... Hahaha... This bastard is finally gone.

Having watched the show to his heart's content, he decided it was best not to linger and turned to leave. However, when he turned back, he found himself face to face with Wang Fu and his group.

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