How could the eunuch dare to say anything? He just vaguely said that he didn't know either.

When Concubine Cui heard that the Empress had fainted again, she sneered, "Master Huiji is right. These two are indeed disaster stars! What good can a person be who can give birth to a child like this?"

The maidservant beside her said flatteringly, "My Lady, what about us..."

Concubine Cui reached out and plucked a bright peony blossoming in the room. She brought it to her nose and took a deep breath, her lips curled slightly. "What do you mean by 'only a person with great fortune can control the jade grapes?' Look! This person has very little fortune! She can't control it."

After saying this, she threw the peony on the ground and stomped on it hard with her foot. "Tell father the news that Princess Xiyue's daughter and Princess Hua have caused the Empress to faint in the palace."

When the maid heard this arrangement, she whispered, "Yes."

Concubine Cui sat in front of the dressing table in a happy mood, touching her face in the bronze mirror: "I must take good care of myself..."

When you become the empress dowager in the future, you will be able to enjoy a few more years of happiness, right?

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The treatment was timely and Jiang Qianruo regained consciousness quickly.

She opened her eyes and looked at the curtains above the bed for a while before she realized what Ji Changying said.

"Where's Sakura?"

Jiang Qianruo sat up and turned to look to the side. Ji Changying was sitting there honestly, with a guilty look on her face: "Grandma, I'm here."

Jiang Qianruo waved at her: "Come here."

Ji Changying walked over: "It's all my fault for being too straightforward, I..."

"I don't blame you! Are you serious? Did she really say that?" Jiang Qianruo held her hand tightly and looked at her without blinking.

Ji Changying nodded, and Jiang Qianruo took a deep breath: "Take me to the Criminal Investigation Department, I want to see her!"

"Who do you want to see?"

Emperor Mingde's majestic voice sounded, and everyone in the hall knelt on the ground. Ji Changying bowed and stood up.

Emperor Mingde looked at her suspiciously. "What did you say to your grandmother? Why did you faint out of nowhere?"

Jiang Qianruo interrupted Emperor Mingde and said, "I'm going to the Criminal Investigation Department to see Nanny Lai. I'll tell you after I see her."

"That bitch caused He Hua to fall into a coma for several days. What are you doing seeing her now? If Xie Siheng hadn't said that He Hua had painstakingly rescued these people, I would have ordered them to be killed!"

Emperor Mingde looked disgusted when he heard Nanny Lai's name.

A mere lowly maid had caused the Queen to be bedridden and almost caused Hehua to lose his life. If I had known this earlier, I would have just killed her.

"Don't talk about anything else. I'm fine. I want to see her right now! I can't wait any longer."

Jiang Qianruo looked straight at Emperor Mingde, with a rare persistence in his eyes.

Emperor Mingde's brows knitted together as he watched her like this. They stared at each other for a long time before Emperor Mingde gave in. "Wait a minute, I'll have someone bring her here. Don't run back and forth."

After saying that, he glanced at Ji Changying and left the hall.

Ji Changying followed him out. Emperor Mingde passed on the message and stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back: "What did you say?"

Ji Changying looked around and found that all the eunuchs were far away.

"Are you sure you want to listen?"

Emperor Mingde squinted his eyes and looked at her: "I can't listen?"

Seeing him like this, Ji Changying smiled and said, "There is nothing in this world that you cannot bear to hear. So I will tell you!"

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The Emperor Mingde's face grew gloomier and calmer as he listened.

He thought that the prince was not born by the queen, but he did not expect that he might not be his.

He had never even thought that Prince Ping would be the Queen's son!

Ridiculous! This is absolutely ridiculous!

"Your Majesty, Nanny Lai is here."

Eunuch Liu moved aside to make way for the two guards behind who were carrying Nanny Lai.

Emperor Mingde sneered: "Carry him in!"

He stepped into the hall, and Ji Changying quickly followed him in.

The group entered the hall, and Emperor Mingde dismissed all the eunuchs.

Ji Changying stood aside and silently said in her heart, "You can't see me... You can't see me."

The result was that Emperor Mingde simply ignored her and had the Dragon Shadow Guards guard outside the palace.

After all the trouble inside and outside the palace, Nanny Lai finally came to her senses.

When he opened his eyes and saw Emperor Mingde and Jiang Qianruo sitting at the top, he was stunned for a moment.

"I never thought that you and I would meet again one day." Jiang Qianruo stood up and looked at Lai Ma. "I originally thought that I would never see you again in this life, but I didn't expect..."

Nanny Lai was silent.

"It turns out that you betrayed me all those years ago."

"When you watched me raising the princess, were you secretly laughing at my stupidity? When you saw me conceiving the Crown Prince and causing the Emperor and his wife to fall out, were you comforting me while secretly plotting how to destroy me even more thoroughly?"

"When I was heartbroken after seeing the Crown Prince pass away, was it because you stayed with me day and night to get through it, and at the same time, you felt secretly happy?"

Jiang Qianruo actually laughed as he spoke: "Even I want to laugh, what an idiot!"

Pain flashed across Lai Ma's face: "No! I didn't! I never laughed at the Empress!"

"But you did it, didn't you?" Jiang Qianruo looked at her fiercely, "Don't give me that helpless look! Tell me everything today! Otherwise, I will kill everyone in your Lai family, including your son!"

Nanny Lai was shocked all over, and when she saw Ji Changying in the hall, she immediately understood.

The princess really heard everything that day!

But she didn't expect that the princess would be so straightforward and told the queen without wasting any time.

Jiang Qianruo looked at her expression and sneered: "Tell me, start from the time you gave birth to the child."

Emperor Mingde listened without saying a word. He looked at Nanny Lai as if he was looking at a dead person.

Nanny Lai was silent for a while before she spoke with difficulty, "Back then, when I went to Huangjue Temple to burn incense, I accidentally ran into Huiji who was being bullied..."

When he met Huiji, he looked like a thin young man who silently endured being bullied. Lai Huichun was following Jiang Qianruo at the time and naturally couldn't bear to see such things, so he helped him a few times.

Now thinking about it, Nanny Lai doesn't know whether everything that happened back then was deliberately arranged by Huiji.

Anyway, the two of them became familiar with each other through these interactions, and gradually an unusual feeling developed between them. Later, they couldn't help but cross the line and secretly got together.

"Later, I found out I was pregnant. I was worried that my mother would notice, so I deliberately ate very little at every meal. Fortunately, the child was also very strong. I didn't have any major reactions and my belly was not noticeable."

"It wasn't until I saw it was getting bigger and bigger and my clothes could no longer cover it that I found an excuse, saying I was going home to see my parents off for the last time. I asked for the Queen's forgiveness and left the palace. I secretly went to Huangjue Temple and waited there for the birth."