"How outrageous." The old emperor shouted angrily.

He has seen all kinds of beauties. Why would he covet her? Besides, he is already at this age, why would he still think about such things? It's not like he thinks he won't die soon enough.

Qin Ru was puzzled at first: "Is anyone talking? Who is being so presumptuous? Could it be that the old emperor is too old and is hallucinating?"

You should shut up soon, Tang Yiqian was tired, but he couldn't remind her.

The emperor said that he had never been wronged like this. As the emperor, if he was unhappy, he would naturally make others unhappy. So he put on a stern face and deliberately asked Qin Ruchu: "Qin, am I very old?"

Qin Ruchu: "System, system, I won't say what's in my heart, right?"

System: "No, he may be able to tell from your appearance that you are secretly in love with him."

Qin Ruchu said with a sigh of relief: "He is really a wise old man. He can see this."

The emperor slammed the table and said, "Qin 꿻."

"No, in my heart, Your Majesty is in the prime of life." Qin Ruchu said seriously.

"System, I feel so hypocritical that I can even say such nonsense. The old emperor has as many wrinkles on his face as chrysanthemum petals. He is not young at all. He has already stepped half of his foot into the coffin."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me." Tang Yiqian begged for mercy.

Qin Ruchu tilted her head to look at him, "What crime have you committed for no reason? I know, he must have done something wrong, otherwise how could the old emperor not wake us up for so long? So he deliberately brought me into the palace, to drag me to death with him? What a good man."

System: "Host, you are so smart. You can even guess this."

Tang Yiqian: "..." Please don't guess.

The emperor looked at Tang Yiqian jokingly. It turned out that Qin Ruchu also scorned him in her heart. It seemed that her husband was treated the same way as him. He instantly felt balanced and no longer angry.

Tang Yiqian was helpless. Thinking of the important matter, he said, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

He told him everything about Cheng Zhe.

"It's simply unreasonable." The emperor cursed and slammed the imperial desk heavily: "Bring the man up here."

Soon, the women, led by the guards, filed in and knelt before the emperor.

"Your Highness."

In fact, they had already cleaned up before coming, but no matter how much they cleaned up, it couldn't cover up their miserable state.

Waxy and dry hair, dull eyes, and a haggard face covered with scars here and there. Although he is in the prime of his life, he looks like an old man who is about to die.

There were even more scars on her neck, and I couldn't imagine what she looked like under her dress.

Even though he had heard Tang Yiqian say it once, he was still shocked when he actually saw it. The old emperor cursed, "What a beast!"

Qin Ruchu disagreed: "Please don't insult the beast, okay? Even beasts would disdain to associate with Cheng Zhe, he is worse than a beast."

In a short time, the old emperor had automatically learned to ignore Qin Ruchu's voice, and said to the kneeling women with a cold look, "Don't worry, I will definitely give you justice."

"Your Majesty, the Minister of Rites requests an audience."

The guard came in from outside and clasped his fists.

Qin Ru was pregnant for the first time. "Oh, the little one is coming to the old one."

The old emperor: "...Announce."

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Long live the emperor."

Minister of Rites Cheng Shihang knelt on the ground with his forehead touching the ground and saluted.

The old emperor did not let him get up, but asked expressionlessly, "Why did you come to the palace?"

Cheng Shihang cried, "Your Majesty, please do justice for me. My son died tragically. There is not a single piece of good meat on his body. He was mauled to death by wild beasts."

Qin Ruchu spat: "What a despicable and shameless villain, why didn't he say anything good about Cheng Zhe? He didn't deserve to die for what he did. Letting wild animals bite him to death and letting him die quickly is already a good thing for him."

The emperor thought that Cheng Shihang probably didn't know about what Cheng Zhegan had done, otherwise how could he have the courage to cry out for injustice, so he said, "My dear Cheng Aiqing, your son raped a woman, you can't blame them for releasing wild animals to bite him..."

"Who said that? It's totally unfair. My son usually keeps himself clean and doesn't like women. It must be a shameless woman who seduced him and ruined him when she failed. My son's death is so unjust." Cheng Shihang shouted.

Qin Ruchu was dumbfounded. "Oh my god, you are trying to turn black into white. I've learned something new."

The emperor glanced at Qin Ruchu, then looked at Cheng Shihang again: "Whether it is unfair or not is not up to you to decide."

“Yes, I am living proof that Cheng Zhe fell in love with me and took me away in public, regardless of the fact that I had a fiancé, just because I was a powerless commoner.” The woman closest to Cheng Shihang turned her head and looked at him with tears in her eyes and hatred on her face. If she could, she would bite him to death like she bit Cheng Zhe to death.

If he hadn't condoned it, how could Cheng Zhe dare to act so recklessly?

If a son is not well educated, it is the father's fault.

It's all his fault.

There is the first one, and there is the second one. "I was also caught by him on the street. I was shopping with my parents at the time, and he took me away. My parents wanted to save me, but he killed them alive. My brother went to redress his injustice, but was thrown into jail by the corrupt officials who were in cahoots with him, and was finally killed alive by Cheng Zhe."

At this point, the woman burst into tears, her cry was filled with sorrow and sadness. She didn't know what she had done wrong to deserve all this.

She is just a little prettier, is that wrong?

"I was secretly captured by him. My father was an official who went to Beijing to report on his duties. I went to the capital with him to see the world, and was accidentally seen by Cheng Zhe. I caught his eye and was captured by him just before I returned to Cheng Zhe." The woman couldn't help herself at the end. She originally had a bright future and might have found a good husband, but now it was all ruined by Cheng Zhe. Her second half of life was over.

As the women spoke one by one, Cheng Zhe's evil deeds were fully exposed, which was simply too numerous to mention.

The old emperor's face became more and more ugly, "Cheng Shihang, what else do you have to say?"

He called him by his name, not even calling him Cheng Aiqing, which shows how angry the old emperor was.

"Your Majesty, what they said is not true. I have witnesses." Cheng Shihang was well prepared and said calmly.

"Announce." The old emperor spoke. He wanted to see what tricks the emperor was going to play.

A group of people were brought to the imperial study by the guards, and the study was instantly packed.

When they saw the emperor, they knelt down and shouted, "Long live the emperor, long live the emperor, long, long live the emperor."

The emperor said nothing and handed the battlefield to Cheng Shihang.

Cheng Shihang pointed at a man who looked like a scholar and said, "You go ahead and tell me."

The scholar raised his head and looked at the first woman who spoke. "Your Majesty, my Lord, I am Zhang Caiyi's ex-fiancé. Why do I say ex? Because she tried to climb up the social ladder in front of me, and I broke off the engagement with her on the spot."