Shangguan Xu kicked Xue Wu, as if he had seen something dirty. "Xue Wu, you are so audacious! How dare you come before Her Majesty the Princess in this state?"

Xue Wu knew that what he was doing was very unruly, but Lu Jinshu had already begun to instigate Her Royal Highness to kill his daughter. How could he care less and burst into tears, "A thousand mistakes are all my fault. Even if there really is karma, then Her Royal Highness should just execute me! The Third Prince is innocent. She is just a newborn baby. She has done nothing wrong! Your Royal Highness, Your Royal Highness! I beg you to let her live."

Lu Jinshu looked at Xue Wu, who was kneeling on the ground in a panic, and said in a faint voice, "The Third Prince has been disabled since birth. This is a clear ominous sign.

Yet you are here begging Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess to spare her life, Xue Wu, you clearly have ulterior motives.

I know that as a father, you love your children, but besides being the biological father of the Three Princes, you are also the servant of Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess.

As a servant, the first thing you must do is to consider your wife wholeheartedly, rather than persuading her to keep an unlucky daughter and bring disaster to the entire Eastern Palace."

Xue Wu raised his head and glared at Lu Jinshu. "The person who will be executed as a bad omen is not your daughter, so of course you, Lu Cejun, can say these words easily. If my daughter really dies in the end, you will be the executioner who killed her. You will suffer from a guilty conscience for the rest of your life!" When he said this, he suddenly laughed crazily, "No, no, a vicious person like you has no conscience at all!"

Seeing that he seemed to have gone mad, Lu Jinshu didn't dare to provoke him any further. Instead, he got straight to the point. "If the Third Prince's physical disability is God's will, then a monster like him must be executed. But if his condition is a man-made disaster, then the injustice has its perpetrators, and the debt has its creditors. It's someone else who should be punished."

Ling Shumo keenly grasped the hidden meaning in Lu Jinshu's words. She frowned and said coldly, "What man-made disaster? Lu Jinshu, stop being so mysterious. What exactly do you want to say?"

Fu Yijing felt his heart suddenly skip a beat. He looked up and glared at Lu Jinshu, "Lord Lu, stop talking nonsense in front of Her Highness the Princess!"

Lu Jinshu ignored his anger and looked at Xue Wu with a half-smile, "Xue Liangjun, are you still not going to tell the truth to Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess? If you really want to do what's best for the Third Prince, then you should tell Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess about the things she forced you to do. That way, Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess will pity the Third Prince instead of treating him like a monster and executing him."

Fu Yijing stared at Xue Wu with an excited look, "What did I force you to do? Ever since you became pregnant, I've provided you with delicious food and drink, and had experienced servants take care of you during your pregnancy. I've considered every aspect of your life. Now, tell Her Highness the Princess, honestly, am I good to you?"

Xue Wu looked at Fu Yijing, then at Lu Jinshu, and finally he returned his gaze to his daughter's face. He chose to betray Fu Yijing to save his daughter, "Your Highness, Your Highness has given me a medicine that can make me more beautiful, but the price of taking this medicine is that it will make men infertile.

As you know, my body was severely frozen, making it difficult for me to conceive. I thought I would never get pregnant again, so I took brown pills that could improve my beauty without any scruples. Unexpectedly, I got pregnant with the Third Prince.

The Third Prince was born with a missing little toe and his toes fused together. This is because the pill was too potent. It was because I, as his father, was obsessed with beauty. It wasn't because the Third Prince was born unlucky."

Xue Wu's words still left room for interpretation. He implicitly said that he was obsessed with beauty and did not mention that Fu Yijing forced him to take drugs. He also did not mention that Fu Yijing killed his first child.

He thought this was a compromise, but Ling Shumo's expression had already changed. "When Pei Jiusheng took the Tianxian Baigu Powder to become beautiful, the entire Pei family was ordered by the Queen Mother to be confiscated and exiled. Fu Yijing, you are truly courageous! How dare you find these vicious drugs and give them to Xue Wu?"

Ling Shumo pointed at the infant Third Prince and said, "Xue Wu secretly took a poisonous drug, and it was fine if no one found out, but now it has brought disaster to my newborn child. Fu Yijing, do you think the East Palace is too peaceful, so you are deliberately looking for trouble? I really don't know what sin I committed in my past life to marry someone like you!"

Fu Yijing was almost in tears at this sudden change. He anxiously defended himself, "Your Highness, I admire you wholeheartedly. Everything I do is for you and for the benefit of the Eastern Palace. Since I married into the Eastern Palace, I have been diligently managing the internal affairs of the palace. Even if I have no merits, I have worked hard."

Ling Shumo pointed at Xue Wu, who was kneeling on the ground in a panic, and said, "Then how do you explain what he just said?"

Fu Yijing stared at Xue Wu coldly, and every word he uttered seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth. "Xue Wu, you can't just blame me because you feel sorry for the Third Prince, right? What about taking medicine that can make you beautiful but is harmful to your body? I don't know what you are talking about! You and Lu Jinshu colluded together and came here to play a double act to frame me. Xue Wu, what are you thinking?"

Xue Wu was also anxious. He could not bear such a serious crime alone. "I stopped taking the medicine that the Princess Royal gave me since I knew I was pregnant. But I still have those empty medicine bottles and the remaining medicine in the bottles in Yuehua Palace. They are all evidence that can incriminate you. How can the Princess Royal be so convincing now that he can confuse right and wrong in front of Her Highness?"

The attendant quickly presented the medicine to Ling Shumo. Xue Wu cried, "Although these medicines are toxic, they are also precious treasures. No one but the Princess and the Prince has such extraordinary means to obtain these medicines. If I were alone, even if I wanted to take these medicines, I would not have the channels or money to buy them."

Fu Yijing snatched one of the medicine bottles from the servant's hand and said angrily, "This medicine bottle doesn't have my name written on it. Even if I call it, it won't respond. Xue Wu, you are so eloquent, how can you slander me so calmly?"

Xue Wu opened his mouth to continue defending himself.

Ling Shumo's face darkened before him. "Xue Wu took forbidden drugs for his own selfish desires. This is a heinous crime. I have been demoted by the emperor to the position of a regular attendant. From now on, I will be confined to Yuehua Palace and not allowed to go out."

She looked at Fu Yijing coldly again, "Such a terrible thing happened during the time when Princess Fu Yijing was in charge of the harem. Fu Yijing, since you can't manage this family well, then you don't have to care about it. From now on, Lu Jinan will continue to be in charge of the East Palace. As for you, please stay in Fuyao Palace for a month to reflect on yourself."