Chapter 91 Pregnancy, a perfect ending! (The Finale)
The day before Empress Sun's birthday, news broke that Xie Yuanxun, the Prince of Zhenbei, had fallen seriously ill.
First, Xie Yuanhe was enraged and successively dealt with Consort Shu, Xie Xuansong, and the Chu Prince's faction, massacring the entire court. Then came the news that Xie Yuanxun was seriously ill.
For a time, the entire royal family and the capital were plunged into a tense atmosphere.
Especially in the imperial court, apart from the Crown Prince's faction, all officials were in a state of fear, like birds startled by the twang of a bow!
Empress Sun's birthday celebration, though still grand, had a touch of trepidation.
With the emperor in a somber mood, Empress Sun naturally had no heart to celebrate his birthday. In addition, Empress Dowager Shen was also unwell, so as soon as the palace banquet ended, everyone tactfully took their leave.
Xie Xuanyin personally accompanied Old Master Sun to Kunning Palace. Shen Ruoli looked at Song Xuerou, who was leaving in a hurry, and a smile flashed in her eyes.
She really didn't expect Song Xuerou to be so bold and shameless as to dare to show up in such a situation!
She underestimated this woman's ambition!
However, it's no wonder that Song Xuerou was so bold.
The real reason is that Shen Ruoli was so focused on dealing with Xie Xuansong and the others that she forgot to deal with Song Xuerou!
"Your Highness, I heard that Princess Consort of Chu was spared from being implicated by the Prince of Chu because she was pregnant. Even though the Song family severed ties with her, she still lives in the Prince of Chu's residence and remains Princess Consort of Chu."
As the leap month approached, he replied in a low voice.
"Princess Consort of Chu?"
Shen Ruoli stared at Song Xuerou's retreating figure, a playful smile on her face. "The King of Chu is dead, so she is now a widow."
"Nowadays there is no custom of being buried alive with the dead, but there is no one who calls herself a 'widow princess' either. Her final resting place should be the Heavenly Destiny Nunnery."
Xie Xuansong is dead, Song Xuerou should now spend her days with the ancient Buddha and the dim lamp!
If she were to commit suicide, it would be a capital offense;
If she survives, she will go from being the Queen Consort of Chu to a nun who practices Buddhism while still keeping her hair...
That would be the greatest torment for her!
"But she's pregnant..."
Runyue frowned. "Crown Princess, the Emperor will surely consider blood ties. After all, the child Princess Chu is carrying is practically the first grandson of the royal family!"
"Xie Xuansong is dead, who knows whose child she's carrying?"
Shen Ruoli glanced at her.
Song Xuerou has always been promiscuous and will stop at nothing to achieve her goals.
"I heard Xie Xuansong rarely touched her. How come she wasn't pregnant when Xie Xuansong was alive, but right after he died, news of Song Xuerou's pregnancy spread?"
"You mean..."
The leap month's pupils flashed.
"Xie Xuansong stayed in Fuzhou for several months before returning to the capital. So I also want to know how Song Xuerou's child came to be."
Shen Ruoli sneered.
That's fine then.
She had just been reborn when she stabbed Xie Xuansong, and then sent someone to deliver medicine to him.
That medicine was the perfect medicine to make Xie Xuansong "infertile"!
Since Xie Xuansong is infertile, whose child is Song Xuerou carrying?!
The leap month immediately thought of this as well.
They knew Xie Xuansong was infertile, but Xie Yuanhe didn't know!
Even Song Xuerou didn't know!
Therefore, she used her unborn child to avoid being sent to the Tianming Nunnery for spiritual practice, thus successfully staying in the capital and continuing to be the nominal Princess of Chu!
"Compared to her days at Tianming Nunnery, even though the title of Princess Consort of Chu was merely nominal, Song Xuerou would rather cling to this lifeline."
Shen Ruoli narrowed her eyes slightly, "Since this is the lifeline she has gone to such lengths to grasp, if I were to throw it away... do you think Song Xuerou would go crazy?"
She was actually looking forward to seeing Song Xuerou go crazy!
...
Perhaps it was because she was frightened by Shen Ruoli's "prey-watching" gaze at the palace banquet last time.
After Song Xuerou hastily fled back to the Chu Prince's Mansion, she did not step out of the mansion for two whole months!
On this day, her baby was finally three months along and the pregnancy had stabilized, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
As usual, a royal physician came from the palace to check her pulse and stabilize her pregnancy.
I thought it would be Physician Zhao again.
Who would have thought that the person who came in would be...
"Shen Ruoli?!"
Seeing Shen Ruoli sitting down in front of her, Song Xuerou almost went crazy!
She exclaimed in surprise, "How did you get in?!"
Before Shen Ruoli could answer, she cried out in a panic, "Help! Help! Protect the Emperor! Protect the Emperor!"
Song Xuerou clutched her stomach, looking nervously at Shen Ruoli.
But Shen Ruoli did nothing to her, only watching her go crazy with a half-smile.
After a while, Song Xuerou finally calmed down.
Since Shen Ruoli was able to swagger in, it means that outsiders had already been eliminated!
Now she is the Crown Princess, but she is just a "Princess of Chu" in name only, and she was even implicated by that fool Xie Xuansong. Song Xuerou is no match for Shen Ruoli at all!
So, feigning calmness, she asked, "What...what do you want to do?"
"I'm warning you, I'm carrying the eldest grandson of the emperor in my womb. If you dare to do anything to me, my father will not let you off!"
"The eldest grandson of the emperor?"
Shen Ruoli seemed to have heard a funny joke.
She raised an eyebrow. "If you are carrying the eldest grandson of the emperor, then... what is the identity of the child in my womb?"
"You're pregnant too?!"
Song Xuerou was startled, then stared at her in disbelief, "You're pregnant?!"
Didn't Xie Xuansong previously send Qingying to deliver medicine to Shen Ruoli? Could that medicine prevent her from getting pregnant?
It seems this woman is truly blessed by nature!
She actually got pregnant under these circumstances!
In comparison, the child she had worked so hard to have seemed like a joke!
"If you can get pregnant, why can't I?"
Shen Ruoli retorted, "Don't you know that Xie Xuansong has long been infertile? So, is the child in your belly the eldest grandson of the emperor, or... a bastard?"
"you!!!"
Song Xuerou was stunned!
Her body stiffened, then her face turned ashen, and she avoided Shen Ruoli's gaze with a panicked look.
"What nonsense are you spouting! If you dare to talk such nonsense again, I'll tell Father Emperor! Don't think that just because you're the Crown Princess and pregnant, Father Emperor will protect you!"
"Are you really not afraid of Father finding out that you cheated on Xie Xuansong and are pregnant with an illegitimate child in an attempt to confuse the royal bloodline?"
Shen Ruoli rested her chin on her hand, not afraid at all that Song Xuerou would dare to do anything to her.
She had waited these past few months to lull Song Xuerou into a false sense of security.
After the last palace banquet, Song Xuerou fled in panic, knowing that Shen Ruoli would definitely not let her go, so she was worried day and night.
But Shen Ruoli did absolutely nothing!
To this day!
The knife that had been hanging over Song Xuerou's head finally fell!
"I have already handed the adulterer over to my father. You may do as you please."
Shen Ruoli didn't want to waste words with her.
She threw down a knife, got up, and left.
Before coming here, she wanted to force Song Xuerou to cut open her abdomen so that her child could also experience the pain her child had suffered in the previous life.
As a mother, she couldn't be as ruthless as Xie Xuansong and Song Xuerou!
She hates them, but she is not them.
Therefore, Shen Ruoli gave Song Xuerou the opportunity to choose for herself.
When she came out of the Chu Prince's residence, Feng Qing followed her with a faint smell of blood, saying that the Chu Princess had followed the Chu Prince in death.
Shen Ruoli looked up at the dark sky and murmured softly, "Feng Qing, it's already spring, why is the weather still so unpredictable? Look, it looks like a thunderstorm is coming."
"But Princess Consort, it is often after a thunderstorm that the weather turns sunny and clear."
Feng Qing helped her into the carriage. "His Majesty has issued a decree today, announcing his abdication in favor of Your Majesty in the middle of next month. That's why Your Majesty has been so busy these past few days..."
Before he could finish speaking, Xie Xuanyin's voice rang out from outside the carriage, "Why are you coming to such an unlucky place when you're pregnant instead of staying in the palace?"
Shen Ruoli lifted the curtain and met Xie Xuanyin's doting gaze.
She smiled gently, "Let's cut ties with the past and look to the future."
Her future includes Xie Xuanyin, her children, her parents, brothers, and sisters.
In this life, Shen Ruoli and Xie Xuanyin finally have a happy ending!
End of article.
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