When Gu Chengzuo saw Su Zhaoyi asking for help and showing weakness for the first time, he felt very happy that she needed him, but when he saw her frowning eyebrows and tears in her eyes but she didn't want him to see it, he stood up and hugged her with heartache to calm her down.

After comforting Danruo, he met with Minister Su and his sons and told them that the case would be immediately investigated by the Dali Temple and a result would come out soon.

Wang Ming, the Minister of the Dali Temple, arrested all the people in Siqibo's mansion.

When they went to Prince Jing's mansion to arrest Qi Yizi, Prince Jing stopped them and tried to use his title as prince to pressure them.

The Dali Temple Minister was in a dilemma. After all, the royal bloodline was thin nowadays, and the emperor only had Prince Jing as his brother.

At this time, Zhao Quan, the chief eunuch in charge of the imperial court, came with Gu Chengzuo's oral instructions.

He said frankly that King Jing did not dare to interfere with the trial of this case. If he did, he would be punished with the same crime as the other party.

King Jing spoke wildly in the street and showed a lack of moral character. From now on, he will be confined to his palace and not allowed to leave without imperial decree.

Zhao Quan brought the imperial guards and locked King Jing in the palace. Qi Yizhi was taken away by the imperial guards under King Jing's nose and imprisoned in the Dali Temple prison.

With the emperor's strong support, the Dali Temple worked day and night and finally concluded the case in less than two days.

The Siqi Earl's family had indeed committed the crime of deceiving the emperor and should have been executed along with all nine generations of his clan. However, many ministers pleaded for mercy on their behalf, as they did not want to discourage the hard-working people of the previous generations of Siqi Earl. It was just that it was too difficult for the current generation of Siqi Earl to have descendants.

Gu Chengzuo was eventually spared the death penalty because of his ancestors' military achievements, but he could not escape punishment for his crime.

Then let's confiscate their property and exile them. All nine clans of the Siqi Earl's family will be exiled to the bitter cold land of Mobei and serve as military households.

Among them, the accusations made by Su Danruo, the daughter of Shangshu Su, were also investigated one by one by the Dali Temple Minister.

Qi Yizhi, knowing full well that she was a woman, married Sudanruo, a fraudulent marriage, and their engagement was void. Half of the Siqibo family's property was confiscated, and the other half was given as compensation to Sudanruo.

Sultan accused Qi Yizhi and Zhou Yang of repeatedly plotting to murder her. Zhou Yang admitted all the charges and insisted that he had nothing to do with his master Qi Yizhi. He refused to change his words even under torture and finally committed suicide to apologize.

Qi Yizhi was pregnant with King Jing's child, so she could not be beaten with a stick.

The Dali Temple Minister had a sudden inspiration and used the torture of pinching, which caused the bones of all ten fingers to be exposed and the blood to flow continuously.

Qi Yizhi refused to plead guilty, saying that Zhou Yang committed the crime privately against her will.

At most, she was guilty of negligence. If it was intentional homicide, she would never admit it even if she died with her child.

After all, she was pregnant with King Jing's child, and the Dali Temple did not dare to push her too far, so they moved the matter to the morning court session.

Concubine Jing had already secretly spread the news that Gu Chengzuo was infertile.

The ministers believed it without a doubt. This was news from the palace. So many concubines failed to conceive, so it must be the emperor's fault.

But they couldn't tell the emperor directly that it was something he couldn't do. After all, as men, they all knew how embarrassing it was. They didn't want the emperor to get so angry that he killed a few ministers to vent his anger.

So they could only protect the child and then persuade the emperor to adopt him.

Both the loyal royalists and King Jing's faction spared no effort to protect the child.

Gu Chengzuo disagreed, so the ministers begged him to adopt a son since he had no children. Prince Jing and the emperor were the closest blood relatives, and this child was Prince Jing's eldest son and the eldest grandson of the late emperor. Although his birth was not glorious, there were too few children in the royal family.

Gu Chengzuo weighed the pros and cons in the court, and the final result of the game was that Qi Yizi first entered the Jingwang Mansion as a maid, and then was exiled after giving birth to the child.

After this incident, King Jing's reputation was completely ruined.

Usually, King Jing acts as a loving person to others, as he still can't forget his former fiancée, Sultan Ruo, and has no intention of getting married, which attracts the admiration of many noble ladies.

Now, she unexpectedly became pregnant with Qi Yizi, Sudanruo's fake husband.

Moreover, although Qi Yizhi refused to admit that she intended to murder Danruo, the portraits of King Jing in the secret room of her study were very old and there were love poems attached to them. So when she said that she did not instruct her subordinates Zhou Yang, few of the people who were watching the show believed her.

Prince Jing and Qi Yizhi had a child, and they used Sultan Ruo's name as a pretext and wanted Sultan Ruo to raise the child for them. Everyone was disgusted by Prince Jing and Qi Yizhi.

Many noble ladies who admired King Jing and wanted to become his wife now curse him as unlucky whenever they mention him.

It would be difficult for King Jing to marry a noble lady at this stage.

King Jing was in his mansion listening to the news from outside brought back by his servants, and he angrily smashed all the porcelain in the room.

"How did these untouchables on the streets know this? Who leaked it?"

The servants knelt on the ground trembling with fear, and the storytellers outside would occasionally receive various materials provided by a kind-hearted person.

The love story between Prince Jing and Qi Yizhi was widely circulated in the capital. Prince Jing looked upon Qi Yizhi to the point of disgust. If she had not been secretly in love with him for many years and had always wanted to get him, he would not have fallen into her trap and had a child with her.

He is now infamous, and when he inherits the throne in the future, there will be a stain on his reputation and he will be criticized by ministers. He is worried about this.

News came from the palace that her mother asked her to keep the child and abandon Qi Yizi.

She said that she had been deceived by Qi Yizi in the past three months. Su Danruo, whom she had always liked, now regretted it and would not be deceived by Qi Yizi again.

King Jing immediately ordered his servants to spread the news when they went out.

A prodigal son who returns is worth more than gold.

Sure enough, some people changed their views on King Jing. Every man makes mistakes. King Jing was just deceived by the scheming Qi Yizi.

Those with sharp eyes and clear minds saw the trick at a glance and waited to see what would happen next.

Sure enough, the servants in charge of purchasing goods for Prince Jing's mansion specially delivered the letter of repentance written by Prince Jing himself to the Su Mansion with great fanfare, threatening to hand it over to Su Danruo, the eldest daughter of the mansion.