"Jealousy...why would you harm her?"
The Third Prince's wife had already prepared her reason before coming: "I don't want my seventh brother to be bewitched by such a vixen."
"Slap!" The Third Prince slapped his wife across the cheek without hesitation: "Mind your own business!"
"Why is Third Prince so eager to shut me up!" The Seventh Prince sneered. "It seems that Third Prince's wife is too idle, which is why she has been persecuting Jia Hua's reputation and sowing discord between my husband and me. Since I have no children, I have no chance of the throne. Does Third Prince know anything about this matter?"
"Seventh Prince, you're really wronging me by saying that," the Third Prince protested with a bitter face.
The Seventh Prince then asked, "Only Jia Hua's death proved his innocence. Third Brother, how do you think I should trust you? This matter has nothing to do with you?"
Without hesitation, the Third Prince pointed at his wife and said, "This wicked woman is ruthless and cunning, plotting against my seventh brother's wife. I will not show her any favoritism. You shall punish her today!"
The Third Prince's wife was suddenly stunned, staring blankly at the Third Prince. The Third Prince didn't even glance at her, his face still showing an indignant expression, as if he was afraid of getting involved with her.
The Seventh Prince looked at the Third Prince's wife: "If the pulse was disordered due to poison, then what is the antidote?"
Before the Third Prince's wife could speak, the Third Prince snatched the antidote from her arms and handed it to the Seventh Prince, who then passed it to the female physician beside him: "Investigate!"
After taking the test, the female doctor said, "It is indeed the antidote, but..."
She drew out her words and sighed, "The antidote is also mixed with a drug that prevents children from ever being born. If the princess takes it, she will never have any children in this life."
"How could that be?" The Third Prince's wife exclaimed anxiously, vehemently denying that the antidote was real.
The female doctor said irritably, "How could I have misheard something after all these years of treating patients? If you don't believe me, just have someone check it again and you'll know."
The Third Prince's wife refused to believe it and cried out that she was innocent, while the Seventh Prince said, "Summon the imperial physician!"
Soon the imperial physician arrived, and after taking the antidote, he confirmed that it contained a drug that would prevent children from having children.
"Third brother, is this your way of compensating me? Or are you going to cut off my lineage?" the seventh prince asked angrily.
The Third Prince was also bewildered. How could the promised antidote possibly contain a drug that would kill off children?
He couldn't help but resent Empress Yan in his heart for her reckless behavior. After thinking for a moment, he had no choice but to tough it out. He looked at the Third Prince's Consort with a cold expression.
"No, no..." The Third Prince's wife was about to refuse when the Third Prince interrupted her: "You wretched woman, you are also a mother, how could you be so cruel as to cut off the Seventh Prince's offspring?"
A single sentence reminded the Third Prince's wife to think of the child's sake.
The Third Prince's wife suddenly shut her mouth and kowtowed to the Seventh Prince: "Seventh Brother, Seventh Brother, this medicine was bought from outside. I really didn't know that something that shouldn't have been mixed in was added. I swear."
The Third Prince quickly chimed in, "Seventh Prince, I'm handing this man over to you. You can do whatever you want to vent your anger."
Even death?
"She deserved it!" The Third Prince gritted his teeth, looking as if he wanted to kill his wife with his own hands.
The Third Prince's wife was both terrified and chilled.
After years of marriage, he pushed himself to his death without hesitation, showing no intention of pleading for mercy.
"You've been married for many years..."
"She deserves to die, Seventh Prince. You don't need to consider my feelings. We are brothers, and I have severed all ties with her now." After saying this, the Third Prince turned and left.
He did not hesitate for a moment despite the Third Prince's wife shouting angrily behind him.
The Seventh Prince glanced at the kneeling Third Prince's wife, feeling no sympathy whatsoever, and too lazy to utter a single word, before turning and entering.
The female physician has already given the antidote to Princess Jia Hua.
Princess Jia Hua felt much better, and soon the pregnancy pulse disappeared. She looked up at the Seventh Prince and said, "Release the Third Prince's wife."
The Seventh Prince was surprised: "She ruined you."
"She is not the culprit."
"But she was involved."
Princess Jia Hua nodded: "I know, but she has already learned her lesson. If we release her, she will definitely become estranged from the Empress's faction. This matter still needs to be investigated by the Third Prince."
The Third Prince's wife went to great lengths to please Empress Yan, but in the end, she was pushed out to take the blame, and the Third Prince showed her no mercy.
How could the Third Prince's wife not hate him?
Releasing the Third Prince's wife is far more valuable than killing her.
"As you wish."
Soon the Third Prince's wife was sent back to Fengyi Palace. The Seventh Prince sent word that the Seventh Prince's wife was virtuous and generous, and that she cared about her sibling relationship and would not hold it against him.
The matter of having the Third Prince's wife copy scriptures a thousand times to denigrate the sins has been dropped.
Upon hearing this, the Third Prince's Consort was both shocked and delighted. Having just escaped the brink of death, she turned her gaze to Empress Yan and clearly saw the fleeting murderous intent in Empress Yan's eyes.
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