Qiao Zhen: [What do I do?! What do I do?! Hurry up and come in, you idiot! The midwife is going to cut my belly with scissors!]

Chu Chu let out a long howl, then kicked her short legs and rushed into the delivery room, which was a complete mess.

Madam Ge hurriedly sent people to capture Chuchu, but Chuchu was fat and short, with rough skin and flesh. It was also recklessly kicking its legs and wouldn't allow anyone to get close to Qiao Zhen.

Qiao Zhen gripped the bedding tightly, the sweat on her forehead making her look weak and disheveled. "If you don't protect me today, I will take my child and die together!"

Madam Ge was so angry that her chest heaved. She ordered her men to surround Qiao Zhen's bedside with screens, and then had a swift and strong man drag Chu Chu out. "Guards, restrain her and cut open her abdomen to remove the child!"

The midwife meekly agreed, then cut open Qiao Zhen's belly and took out the baby. "It's a boy, where's the mother?"

Madam Ge looked at Qiao Zhen coldly: "Take good care of her. Use everything the Ge family has. If she's not tough enough, she'll die in childbirth."

Perhaps it was the candy that the God of Taibai had given her that worked, and Qiao Zhen managed to save her life. However, because she was weak, Madam Ge never brought the child over for her to see.

Even after Qiao Zhen finished her postpartum confinement, Madam Ge still used the excuse that Qiao Zhen was weak and might bring bad luck to the baby to prevent her from seeing the child.

Qiao Zhen was so angry she felt like her lungs were about to explode. She packed her things, took her one hundred taels of silver, and had Chu Chu carry her away from the Ge residence. "Let's go find Pan Zhao."

Chu Chu: [Where are we supposed to look? The world is so vast, are we going to be searching for a needle in a haystack? (。??︿??。)]

Qiao Zhen: [Where's the target-locked cheat?]

Chu Chu: [Unless it's a special case, it can't be used.]

Qiao Zhen immediately exploded: "Isn't this a special situation? We can't even contact Taibai Shangshen anymore, someone must be behind this! Forget everything else, use everything you can! My son has been kidnapped, isn't that serious enough?!"

Chu Chu: [Okay, let's go find the target now.]

Chu Chu carried Qiao Zhen from the capital, and almost a month has passed, but the two of them still haven't reached the south gate.

Qiao Zhen: [Can you hurry up? It'll be ages before you get to Pan Zhao!]

Chu Chu: [(ó﹏ò?) But you're really heavy! And my legs are so short, and my body is so fat and heavy. I'm already overweight, and now with you on top of that, how can I possibly walk fast?]

Qiao Zhen looked at the inn by the roadside, so she took Chu Chu there to get some water and something to eat to replenish her energy.

By the time Qiao Zhen has eaten and drunk her fill, she should be able to calm down. If she leaves now, Madam Ge might be hoping she never comes back, and then find a young and beautiful new woman for Pan Zhao so that her son can recognize another woman as his mother.

Qiao Zhen: [Chu Chu, pack your things, we're going back now.]

Chu Chu: [Aren't we going to look for Pan Zhao?]

Qiao Zhen: [Why are we looking for him? What good will it do? We should be going to Madam Ge and annoy her. My son is in her hands. Even if she's the King of Heaven, she has no right to take my son away!]

So Qiao Zhen and Chu Chu returned to the Ge residence, but the gatekeeper stopped them.

Qiao Zhen looked coldly at the servant, "If you won't let me into the mansion, at least let me take my son away, right?"

The servant said with a smile, "Our mistress said that it's not easy for you to raise a child, so she asked the Ge family to take care of him for you."

Without saying a word, Qiao Zhen collapsed at the entrance of the Ge family mansion, looking every bit the street ruffian. She yelled at the top of her lungs, "You damned bastards! Everyone come quick! The lady of the Ge family is snatching a child! The lady of the Ge family is snatching a child!"

A crowd gradually gathered at the entrance of the Ge residence. Among them, a man who seemed to enjoy the spectacle asked, "Hey girl, what happened?"

Qiao Zhen sobbed, wiping her tears with her sleeve. She said, "My husband is a soldier in General Ge's camp. When he went to war with General Ge, he left me at the Ge residence to work as an embroiderer. Last month, I gave birth to a son, but Madam Ge refuses to give him to me! If I don't have a son, what will I do when my husband comes back?! Isn't this going to kill me?!"

Qiao Zhen's rouge and powder weren't waterproof, so when she cried, her makeup and eyeliner smudged. She simply used her tears to wash off her makeup. "Everyone, be the judge! She dares to do such a heinous thing right under the emperor's nose!"

The onlookers' attention was drawn to her makeup. The men stared in disbelief as Qiao Zhen transformed from a charming beauty into an ugly woman with a pointed mouth and monkey-like cheeks, looking somewhat lewd. The women, on the other hand, pointed and whispered about Qiao Zhen's appearance, while also wanting to ask her for advice on her makeup.

Qiao Zhen sat on the ground, crying incessantly. She wished more and more people would gather around her. "Heavens! Earth! Why are you doing this to me! My child, whom I carried for ten months, you just took him away like this!"

She cried her heart out, and several times she couldn't catch her breath. Her cuffs were so wet they could be wrung out.

This matter quickly alarmed Emperor Maoyuan in the palace, so he immediately changed his clothes and went to join the fun under the identity of Mao Yuan. He pushed and shoved his way into the crowd, "Sister-in-law Pan, what are you doing here?"

Qiao Zhen, as if seeing a savior, tearfully recounted the events, embellishing the story, "Brother Mao, my sister-in-law is in a terrible state! My husband shouldn't have joined General Ge's camp, he shouldn't have joined the army. Madam Ge is heartless. I thought Madam Ge was kind to me, but who knew she wanted to steal my son? Since I gave birth, she hasn't let me see my child even once!"

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