No matter how loyal Chu Yue is, she is still a human being after all. She might be willing to die for the country, but she would never dare to die in such a cruel way as being torn apart by five horses.

Chu Yue was completely panicked at this moment. She subconsciously believed that Emperor Qin Huan had already found out something, so she painfully admitted: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I plead guilty! But, but this matter has nothing to do with Concubine Rong. I did it all by myself!"

Others might not know, but how could the Queen Mother and Nanny Chen not know what was going on with the poisoned wine? It was clear that this matter had nothing to do with Concubine Rong and Chu Yue, but now Chu Yue had confessed...

Emperor Qin Huan indeed discovered something strange. Bai Yuzhi watched him order people to take Chu Yue and Nanny Chen away together. He felt that he could rest assured to take care of the pregnancy and wait for the baby to be born, and then his mission would be completed.

"I am old, and I feel a little tired after sitting for a while. I will return to Shoukang Palace today and come to see Concubine Heng tomorrow."

Seeing that Nanny Chen was doomed to die, the Queen Mother felt very uncomfortable, but this matter was all caused by her. Now Emperor Qin Huan was determined to give Bai Yuzhi an explanation. If Nanny Chen did not die, no one could atone for the Queen Mother's sins.

"Queen Dowager, I will send you back to the palace."

Emperor Qin Huan would not tolerate any refusal, and the mother and son walked out of the Purple Palace side by side. On the way back, they had nothing to talk about. The atmosphere was heavy and stagnant. Finally, the empress dowager could not bear it anymore and spoke.

"Your Majesty, do you have something to tell me?"

"Empress Dowager, let's forget about the poisoned wine. I will sentence Nanny Chen to death. From now on, Empress Dowager, please take good care of Concubine Heng. As for the rest, I will make arrangements."

"Don't worry. I was fooled before and believed Jiang's slander. I mistakenly thought that Concubine Heng was not a good person. Now that Concubine Heng is pregnant, there is no one in the palace who is more loved by me than her," the Queen Mother said with some doubt. Given how much Emperor Qin Huan cherished Concubine Heng, it seemed impossible for him to leave her in the care of others. "Is the Emperor busy with matters at the front court lately?"

This peaceful and prosperous era had been developing for twenty years under Emperor Qin Huan's rule. The country had long been peaceful and prosperous, and all nations came to pay tribute. Logically, there shouldn't be any major events that would force Emperor Qin Huan to take personal action.

Emperor Qin Huan curled his lips coldly: "There are some ungrateful dogs. I must teach them a lesson, lest my prince be born to be bitten by vicious dogs."

After sending the empress dowager back to Shoukang Palace, Emperor Qin Huan returned to Zichen Hall again. Bai Yuzhi was browsing props in the system mall, and he thought she was bored and in a daze.

"Your Highness, please rest for two more days. The imperial physician said that you can go out after the baby is three months old."

Bai Yuzhi saw Emperor Qin Huan put his hand on her belly as soon as he entered the room, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes cutely: "Your Majesty, you are talking nonsense, my period is clearly in March."

It was indeed the time when the Empress Dowager Qianqiu arrived. The fake baby in Lady Jiang's belly was already three months old.

"You heartless little thing, I'm just worried that something might happen to you. You were pushed to the ground by Jiang, so you should have rested more."

If there was a mistake, Lady Jiang's attack really didn't cause any damage to the white jade. If one had to find a reason, it was that ever since she took the fertility pill and got pregnant, Emperor Qin Huan basically came every few days. This was a real shock.

Bai Yuzhi blinked and stared at Emperor Qin Huan. The tyrant who was feared and revered by the people of the world seemed to realize something. He suddenly bent down and gently put his head on Bai Yuzhi's lower abdomen.

"It is the Emperor who has wronged you. When you are released, the Emperor will give you everything."

Bai Yuzhi narrowed her eyes in a smile and pretended to pat her belly: "Mother too, mother loves you even more than father does, right, baby?"

The three-month-old belly hadn't risen or fallen significantly yet. Even if the baby in the white jade belly was gifted, it couldn't respond to the two adults. Emperor Qin Huan looked at her gently: "You and I will love him very much."

At this point, Bai Yuzhi suddenly remembered a ritual that must be performed during pregnancy, which is -

"Your Majesty, do you hope the baby will be a prince or a princess?"

Emperor Qin Huan was worthy of being Emperor Qin Huan. He didn't fall for it at all: "Does the Imperial Concubine want to give birth to a prince or a princess for me?"

This old fox, Bai Yuzhi actually wanted to have a daughter to see if he would pass the throne to her, but he had already taken the fertility elixir and couldn't change it even if he wanted to.

"Can't I give birth to both?"

It depends on what you do.

Emperor Qin Huan was stunned. It should be said that Emperor Qin Huan had already prepared himself for a life without children. The moment Bai Yuzhi was diagnosed with pregnancy was a surprise from heaven. He subconsciously thought that this was the only child he would have in his life. So when Bai Yuzhi asked him whether he wanted a prince or a princess, he actually preferred a prince.

But this was not because Emperor Qin Huan was trapped in the constraint that only the prince could inherit the throne.

Emperor Qin Huan was born a heretic; otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to raise an army in troubled times when he had nothing, and wouldn't have conquered so many small kingdoms before achieving the feat of unifying the world. Such a man wouldn't have lacked the courage to allow the princess to succeed him.

But Emperor Qin Huan was already forty years old, and it was uncertain whether he would still be alive when the princess grew up and could inherit the throne. Without his suppression, the group of veteran ministers who had followed him to conquer the world were all good and powerful generals. Whether the princess could successfully ascend the throne, or whether they would take the opportunity to rebel, was unknown.

So if Bai Yuzhi really gave birth to a little princess, Emperor Qin Huan would use more brutal means to deal with these people, which would be an extremely huge project.

If he were a prince, these obstacles would be easily overcome.

Emperor Qin Huan had thought of everything, but he hadn't expected Bai Yuzhi to say she wanted both the prince and the princess. Imperial Physician Xu, who examined Bai Yuzhi's pulse daily, had never mentioned that she was pregnant with twins.

"My concubine is greedy, but I can't bear to give up. A delicate woman like you would be in great pain if you gave birth to two children at once."

Bai Yuzhi didn't expect that Emperor Qin Huan had such a strange way of thinking. She clearly wanted to have another baby, but when it came to Emperor Qin Huan, the babies became twins.

"No, I mean, after giving birth to this one in my belly, we can still have another child."

Have another child.

This might not seem like a big deal to anyone, but Emperor Qin Huan knew the difficulties he faced in raising an heir.

It was a pleasant surprise for him to have a blood-related child in this life. Emperor Qin Huan had always thought that it was because he had killed too many people and destroyed too many cities in his life, which led to the retribution of the cycle of cause and effect being realized on his descendants. Bai Yuzhi was a couple, and she was like a little fairy from heaven, who actually became pregnant with his child.

Emperor Qin Huan said in a hoarse voice: "Okay, we can have another one."