With the Eighth Prince spoiling the fun, the Dragon Boat Festival banquet ended quickly.

Everyone took their leave, fearing that they might accidentally displease the emperor.

The Shen family was the same. Yan Bao looked at the emperor with a dignified face and did not dare to be too presumptuous.

She and the Thirteenth Prince waved their hands and left with Madam Shen and the others.

The Thirteenth Prince returned to Concubine Li's palace. Concubine Li praised the Thirteenth Prince for his good work and said that since the Emperor liked him, if anyone bullied others in the future, he could treat them like this. Anyway, the Emperor would not bother with a fool.

Thirteenth Prince: “…”

"Where are the golden rice dumplings? Bring them to mother to see." Concubine Li did not expect that her son would become more and more capable.

Today he got the good reputation from the emperor again and became the first prince to own a golden rice dumpling.

No wonder the Eighth Prince was jealous and wanted to snatch it away.

Looking at the lifelike golden rice dumplings, Concubine Li felt that she could eat two more.

The emperor felt more and more disgusted with those ambitious princes, so he simply let the beauties accompany him. They entered the palace because it was fresh, and mainly because there were no princes yet, so it was easy and pleasant to get along with them.

The concubines who had princes and princesses would flatter his children and praise them in front of him.

If it was really that good, why would he envy the daughter of the Shen family?

The look in Chief Minister Shen's eyes, as if he was afraid that he had snatched his daughter away, made the emperor angry.

It was also thanks to Prime Minister Shen, otherwise we would have no idea that the ten-year-old Eighth Prince had the ambition to kill the king.

Haha, what an ungrateful person.

Soon, Concubine Liu Lingyuan came. She had dimples in her smile, bright almond eyes, and was sweet and lovely. She was the beauty that the emperor liked recently. He smiled and stretched out his hand to Concubine Liu.

Concubine Liu walked over with a smile: "It's my turn to sleep with you tonight. The pills sent by the Third Prince really arrived just in time. If they can give me a child as the Concubine said before, then after ten months, I will be honored as a mother with a child."

emperor:"......"

"If I give birth to a smart son who wins the Emperor's favor, I might be crowned Empress. On the contrary, my son will become the Crown Prince, and after the Emperor passes away, I will be the Empress Dowager, second only to him?!"

Even though the fate has not been decided yet, Lady Liu can still let her imagination run wild.

The emperor didn't know how to complain. Being able to read minds was not a good thing. For example, now, he wanted to relieve his unpleasant mood.

After hearing what Lady Liu said, I felt even worse.

pill?

very good.

The emperor pretended not to know. When Concubine Liu thought she had won and was about to take the fertility pill with tea, the emperor grabbed her wrist and the pill fell to the ground and rolled to the emperor's feet.

Concubine Liu was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she was terrified and desperate: "Emperor...Emperor!"

"What are you eating?"

Concubine Liu was terrified. She knew that the palace hated the use of medicine the most. Many concubines used too many medicines in order to have children, and gave birth to unhealthy fetuses. In the end, they were secretly executed.

Later, the palace issued an order prohibiting the abuse of drugs unless they were prescribed by the imperial physician.

Lady Liu certainly couldn't admit that it was a drug that could make people pregnant. She said, "Yes...it's a tonic."

"Tonic?" The emperor's eyes turned cold. "Let me ask again, what is it?"

Concubine Liu knew her lie had been exposed, and she was so frightened that she knelt before the emperor, kowtowed and begged for mercy: "I deserve to die. I didn't take this medicine myself. It was...it was given to me by the Third Prince, who said it would help me get pregnant."

The emperor already knew the third prince from her thoughts, but it was still a bit uncomfortable to hear her say it in person.

"Why did the Third Prince harm you?" The emperor suspected that this beauty had an affair with the Third Prince, and his face suddenly turned ugly.

The thought of father and son sharing the same woman made the emperor furious: "Tell me, what is your relationship?"

Concubine Liu trembled in fear: "Your Majesty, I have nothing to do with the Third Prince. It was the former Concubine Shu who arranged this. The Liu family received the former Concubine Shu's favor, so we can only obey her."

"Very good, she does have some skills." The emperor did not expect that woman was involved in this. Fortunately, Concubine Liu and the third prince were innocent.

But after today, they are no longer innocent.

The Third Prince wanted Concubine Liu to be favored so that he could make other plans. How could the Emperor not let him get what he wanted?

The emperor understands imperial power best.

He also fought his way up from being a prince to the position of emperor. He thought his sons could avoid the tragedy he experienced back then. It seems that power can really make people lose control.

That night, the emperor did not punish Concubine Liu, but made her take the pill he had stepped on, and asked her to sleep with him.

It's just that there's less fun and more calculation.

Concubine Liu was trembling with fear.

The emperor set up a trap with himself.

No one knew what happened tonight except the emperor and Concubine Liu.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the third prince became famous. The fact that he had a white butt and a birthmark spread throughout the capital and even the whole country within just two months.

Someone asked privately, can the third prince still get married in this condition?

If this were a woman, she would have drowned long ago to prove her innocence.

The third prince did not.

The Third Prince is a man after all, so he is fine with being looked at, as long as his future wife doesn't mind.

Many young ladies from aristocratic families in the capital were still willing to do so. After all, the Third Prince was now hated by the Emperor. Once Concubine Shu fell, her two sons would also be despised.

The third prince had reached the age to get married, but unfortunately after the Dragon Boat Festival, the ministers who were interested in marriage kept silent.

Those women who wrote many love letters to the Third Prince and sent him sachets and handkerchiefs all seemed to be indifferent to him. Some of them even started to look at other young men and no longer wanted to marry the Third Prince.

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