Chapter 74 She's given me a ladder, so hurry up and get down.
"How could you be alright!" Madam Yao cried uncontrollably: "That wicked assassin actually poisoned the sword. The imperial physician said that the poison would kill on contact with blood. If you hadn't been in the palace at the time and provided timely treatment, even if the entire Imperial Hospital had been mobilized, it would have been too late to save him."
Yu Zhiyi listened quietly, waiting for her to get to the point.
However, Yao kept rambling on and on, but never quite got to the point that Yu Zhiyi wanted to hear, which made her a little puzzled.
However, she couldn't ask right now and could only pretend not to know.
Du Ziheng hadn't returned home to change his clothes for two days, and now his beard was unkempt, with two dark circles under his eyes: "Mother, I've already sent someone to notify the imperial physician. Zhiyi has just woken up and is still very weak. Let's wait until she's fully recovered before we talk about anything else."
Prime Minister Du also said, "Yes, after the imperial physician has examined her, let Yi'er rest well first."
"Oh right! Look at me!"
Yao patted her forehead: "Yi'er, don't speak or move for now. We'll talk about it when you're healed."
Yu Zhiyi: "..."
Has her ability declined, or are all the imperial physicians in the palace incompetent?
Why couldn't they see that she had been injured in the most important reproductive organ of a woman, and that she could no longer have children?
At this moment, the imperial physician arrived.
After taking Yu Zhiyi's pulse, the imperial physician said, "Young Madam Du is very fortunate; she has passed the most dangerous period. She only needs to rest for a while to fully recover. However..."
Before the imperial physician could finish speaking, Madam Yao suddenly interrupted him: "Imperial Physician Zhang, thank you for your hard work. After Yi'er leaves the palace, I will trouble you to make several more trips to the Prime Minister's residence."
Yu Zhiyi narrowed her eyes slightly: "Imperial Physician Zhang, is there something wrong with my body?"
The three members of the Du family froze. Prime Minister Du glanced at Physician Zhang indifferently. Although his expression was calm, Physician Zhang unconsciously straightened his spine.
Yu Zhiyi's expression was calm yet resolute: "Although people in the Xuanmen sect cannot divine their own fate, we are not only skilled in divination, but we also have brains. You are definitely hiding something from me, and it concerns my health."
"If you don't tell me now, won't it be even more painful when I find out myself in the future?"
Prime Minister Du looked away, unable to bear it any longer, and Madam Yao began to wipe away her tears again.
Du Ziheng was silent for a moment, then walked to the bedside: "Okay, I'll tell you, but you have to promise me you'll stay calm. You have to believe that no matter what happens, our family can face it together. We won't look down on you."
Du Chengxiang waved to Imperial Physician Zhang, who tactfully withdrew.
Yu Zhiyi frowned: "You tell me."
Du Ziheng sat down on the edge of the bed and tried to take Yu Zhiyi's hand.
Yu Zhiyi avoided the question with a blank expression.
Du Ziheng paused, then tucked the blanket around her: "The angle of that sword strike was extremely tricky, piercing right into your uterus. If it were just a sword wound, there would have been a chance to heal. But the sword wound was poisoned, and although the imperial physicians worked together to save your life, they couldn't save your uterus..."
"Get to the point."
Du Ziheng paused slightly before saying, "You may never be able to have children again."
Yu Zhiyi suddenly looked up and took in the expressions of the three members of the Du family.
Madam Yao was still crying, Prime Minister Du's back looked desolate, and Du Ziheng's face was full of pain and guilt.
She spoke very calmly: "The Du family cannot be without offspring, nor can it accept a daughter-in-law who cannot have children. Let's get a divorce."
Du Ziheng looked up with a mocking gaze, only to meet those exceptionally calm eyes.
The pain in his heart was shattered by the coldness in those eyes, then quickly mixed together, coalescing into an unknown emotion.
"Don't overthink it, I don't want to get a divorce."
As Du Ziheng and Yao Shi's duet began, Prime Minister Du, though silent, breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing his wife and children's words.
Yu Zhiyi asked in bewilderment, "What use is a wife who can't have children?"
She didn't feel that it was a sin for a woman not to have children, but she understood that it was a deeply ingrained idea in the world.
She deliberately created this opportunity so that they could get a divorce in a natural way.
To put it bluntly, she didn't want to play along with these people anymore.
In her past life, she followed Zhang Tianshun's nonsense for the rest of her life because of her master's words.
She found it quite boring and didn't want to compete with other women for a man.
The Du family is very good; being the mistress of the Du family means enjoying wealth, honor, and the respect of the world.
Her in-laws were also very kind, making her feel a sense of family love and warmth she had never experienced before.
However, there is an irreconcilable conflict between her and the Du family.
She didn't want to have children, and she especially didn't want to share a room with Du Ziheng.
In the past, she could use the affair between Du Ziheng and You Bingyue as an excuse to avoid having a peaceful time.
But now, You Bingyue has left the Prime Minister's residence and will certainly not be able to return in the short term.
This leisurely life won't last long.
No matter how good Yao is, she is still her mother-in-law, not her own mother, so she will care about the continuation of the Du family line.
Rather than ending things on bad terms because of the child and eventually growing to hate each other, she might as well find a pretext to resolve this unexpected marriage in advance.
But she didn't expect that the three members of the Du family would disagree.
Perhaps they dared not accept the proposal because she had just "saved" the emperor and did not want to anger him or bear a bad reputation.
The more she thought about it, the more she realized it made sense, so Yu Zhiyi said, "Don't worry, I won't let you be stigmatized. Or, we can get a divorce first, and after things calm down, I'll leave the Du residence, and then..."
"Not at that time!"
Du Ziheng stood up jokingly: "I will not divorce you. No matter what you become, I will never divorce you!"
He quickly left the room and said to the palace maid outside the door, "Heat up the medicine."
After giving the instructions, I went outside for a walk to clear my head.
Yu Zhiyi: "..."
She then looked at Yao.
Madam Yao wiped away her tears and sighed, "Yi'er, we are not an unreasonable family. You did not want to become like this. It is not your fault. We have no right to despise you, nor will we."
"As for the children..."
Yu Zhiyi interrupted her: "What if I said I don't accept Du Ziheng taking a concubine?"
Yao was taken aback.
With a firm resolve, Yu Zhiyi looked up at Madam Yao and said, "I was unaware of Miss You's situation beforehand, but regardless of whether I knew or not, I was the one who interfered in their relationship first. I have no right to stop them from being together, so I can turn a blind eye."
"But I can't accept my future partner having other women."
His pale face held an extraordinary determination.
To put it bluntly, the reason she did all this was to bid a dignified farewell to the Du family.
Yao treated her quite well, and she didn't want to upset her like she had upset Meng.
So, while she's already handed over the ladder, hurry up and climb down it.
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