Mu Beichen was suddenly stunned, his whole body stiffened. This question was like a sharp blade that pierced his heart in that instant, and he felt that he could no longer speak.

He wanted to hold her in his arms to comfort her, but when he looked up, he saw a fierce and murderous aura boiling between her brows. Her scarlet eyes and furious expression seemed to devour his soul!

"That woman Su Ruan is heartless and insane. She has tried to kill me multiple times. You know how these things happened. My unborn child was murdered before it was even born. If it weren't for you, Su Ruan would never have had the chance to do it. Mu Beichen, I was truly blind to marry a heartless person like you!"

Yu Qianqian's anger and resentment surged to a fever pitch. After speaking, she suddenly raised her hand and slapped Mu Beichen hard across the cheek!

Startled, Mu Beichen took a few steps back, leaning against the wall as if boneless, looking at her with disbelief and surprise, and said, "Qianqian...you said you regretted marrying me, that was just said in anger, right?"

"I admit that this accident was all my fault, but seeing you poisoned and losing your child, my pain these past few days has been no less than yours. If I could do it all over again, I would never let this happen again." Mu Beichen walked over quickly and hugged her tightly without thinking. His eyes were filled with deep pain, and tears fell silently to the ground.

"Qianqian, Qianqian, you can scold me and hit me whenever you want, just please don't leave the palace, don't leave me!"

When they met eyes, Yu Qianqian's face turned ashen. Even though she was held captive in the arms of the man she hated most, she gave up struggling and rested her face on Mu Beichen's shoulder. She spoke in a calm tone, "I still remember when I was six years old, my mother said before she died that if I met a good man in this life, I could entrust my life to him. The only thing I must not do is marry into the royal family. In the face of imperial power, there is no such thing as the relationship between ruler and subject. Even wives and children are as insignificant as grass."

Hearing her incredibly calm tone, yet uttering the most heartbreaking words, Mu Beichen suddenly felt a buzzing in his ears, and the hand tightly gripping her slender waist trembled slightly, as if he were about to perish with her in that instant.

She forcefully pushed him away from her embrace, forcing him to look her in the eye: "Look at me properly, look at me. Besides this half-life and this broken body, what do I have left? Along the way, in order to help you and protect you, I lost two children, and all the people who loved me are no longer alive. And now, why are you still clinging to me?"

After speaking, she looked at herself again and smiled softly. The smile was mixed with coldness and ruthlessness, appearing and disappearing in Mu Beichen's eyes like a fleeting flower.

He stood upright, facing away from the beaded curtain, the cold voice of Yu Qianqian echoing in his ears. He stared at Yu Qianqian's unfamiliar and indifferent face, and suddenly felt as if cold swords were piercing his heart. Unconsciously, tears welled up in his eyes once again.

Unable to bear the pain in his heart and mind any longer, Mu Beichen rushed to Yu Qianqian in a few strides, his voice breaking into a hoarse scream: "Qianqian...please, please stop talking!"

Yu Qianqian remained expressionless and composed in front of him, but her tone grew increasingly impassioned as she spoke: "Mu Beichen, the thing I regret most in my life is marrying you, and I regret even more that I still chose to trust you after experiencing betrayal after betrayal."

"Mu Beichen, I hate you, but I don't blame you, because I was wrong this time. I was wrong to value our relationship too much. People say that it's not appropriate to be sentimental in the imperial family. It turns out that these are all true."

After saying this, she realized that she still couldn't suppress her emotions and turned her back to Mu Beichen. At this moment, her eyes were full of tears, which slowly flowed down her cheeks and fell to the ground silently.