Chapter 30 It’s over, it’s over, I’m going blind
The emperor looked at the swaying Concubine Chen and saw grievance, unwillingness, and forbearance on her face, but he did not see regret or guilt.
"You want a child? Then why can't you have the Queen's child?"
The aggrieved look on Concubine Chen's face froze for a moment, as if she had not expected the emperor to suddenly ask her this.
"Tell me why!"
The emperor's cold voice hit Concubine Chen's heart like a heavy hammer. She forgot to cry and just stared at him blankly.
[Of course it’s because of love. I can’t bear to see someone else receiving your favor and having your child.]
[I want to be a normal couple with you, but I am too greedy~]
The voice was so lifelike, and he even imitated the tone of the Concubine Chen's speech, that the people who were eavesdropping on the side almost laughed out loud.
The empress dowager picked up the handkerchief and pressed it to the corner of her lips. What the child from the Lu family said just now was right.
Such a person is indeed unworthy of bearing offspring, let alone being favored.
Otherwise, both the adult princes and the young princes would suffer the consequences.
Concubine Chen fell to the ground weakly and beautifully. She stared at the emperor in a daze, not knowing what had happened. Why did he, who had been so kind to her in the morning and was willing to come to Ronghui Garden early, treat her so coldly now?
"Your Majesty, please just think that I am too greedy. I can't help it..."
“That’s enough!”
The emperor was furious, not knowing whether it was because Lu Xinran had repeatedly guessed Concubine Chen's reaction or because this all seemed like a joke.
The concubine Chen lay on the ground and forgot to cry again. The panic and confusion in her eyes grew deeper and deeper.
In the suffocating atmosphere, Eunuch Fu noticed someone bringing He Youyi from a distance, so he ran out carefully and brought the person into the water pavilion.
"Your Majesty, Doctor He has arrived."
The emperor snorted, waited for He Youyi to kneel in front of him, and threw the medicine bag and residue at his feet.
"You want to confess yourself or do you want me to torture you?"
When He Youyi saw the medicine bag on the ground and the bloody bodies of several palace maids nearby, he trembled and almost collapsed to the ground.
“Your Highness, I will tell you everything.
"Yes, it was the Concubine Chen who wanted a prescription that would make her pulse look like she was pregnant, and another prescription that would make her look like she was weak after giving birth. I found these two prescriptions for her."
[Tsk, you sound so innocent and obedient. If I tell you to die, will you go?]
Lu Xinlan: “…”
Please, please don't open the microphone anymore!
The emperor glanced at the Lu family coldly, and his expression became even uglier.
"If I remember correctly, you are my subject, not his!"
He Youyi fell to the ground with his lower lip trembling, not daring to make any more excuses for himself.
The Concubine Chen seemed to have suddenly gained strength, and she leaned forward and wrapped her weak arms around the emperor's legs.
"Your Majesty, I did deceive you, but I just love you too much. I just wanted to get a little favor from you. I will never dare to do it again. Can you forgive me?"
The emperor looked down at her, his tears smudged her delicate makeup, but the wolf-like look was still his favorite.
His fingers moved slightly, and he was about to subconsciously lift the strands of hair on her cheek, when the inappropriate voice in his heart sounded again.
【Let me think about what that stupid saying was. 】
[Oh, yes, you lost a leg, but she lost her love! ]
[I just love you too much, so none of the babies in other concubines' bellies can be born! ]
[Even the Queen can’t do that! 】
[I don’t want to have blood on my hands, stained with so many lives, but I love you! You must understand that I am right! ]
[Gee~ This is so disgusting! I really want to poke my eyes out. Why did I have to see such an eye-catching scene? ]
[It’s over, it’s over, I’m going blind. ]
emperor:"……"
Very good, I will make you really blind later!
The legs that were being held were suddenly pulled out, and another kick landed on Chen Fei's shoulder.
"Cao Wenxin, come and check her pulse again."
Three hours should have passed from the time Concubine Chen went to find him.
Finally realizing what was about to happen, Concubine Chen held her wrist tightly. Even though the evidence was there, she couldn't let the imperial physician diagnose that she had indeed used these soups.
"Emperor, I don't care if she wants to fake pregnancy and miscarriage to make you feel sorry for her. I just want to know why she wants to frame the Empress!"
Amid the chaos, the Queen Mother's suppressed anger spread throughout the scene.
If her eyes could turn into knives, Concubine Chen would have been chopped into pieces by now.
The emperor closed his eyes and said, "Mother, I will give you and the Queen an explanation after I return to the palace."
[Empress Dowager, hey, do you not understand your own son, or do you think you can take this opportunity to ask for something for the Empress?]
[The Queen first lost her child, then was repeatedly wronged and reprimanded.]
[After so many years and so many things, as long as the emperor still has a place for her in his heart, he will not let her become a joke.]
[After returning to the palace, she was given an explanation. What could she give? It was just a few polite words, and then some gifts were sent to Changchun Palace to let the concubines in the harem know that the queen still had some respectability.]
[It was a painless explanation, but the Queen still expressed her gratitude. ]
[Tsk, you only lost your child, but I lost my love~]
“That’s enough!”
The emperor was furious, "You..."
He raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the Lu family, then shook his sleeves and looked at all the guests in the pavilion.
"All of you get off!"
If we allow this young man from the Lu family to continue to stir up trouble, today's incident will only become more complicated.
"Stay! I need them to stay and serve as witnesses!"
Things have come to this point, and the Queen Mother has given up.
She couldn't control how absurd the emperor's son was. She wanted to buy some freedom for the empress.
The veins on the emperor's head were throbbing. Meeting the empress dowager's stubborn gaze, he took a deep breath and waved his hand to signal Eunuch Fu to take people to hold Concubine Chen to the ground.
"Why did you frame the Empress? I want to hear the truth, otherwise I will punish your entire clan!"
The Concubine Chen shuddered, then began to chuckle.
"Your Majesty, do you really not know or are you pretending not to know? Which woman in the harem would not want to be the empress? Who would not want their son to be the crown prince or the emperor, and for them to be the empress dowager and not have to look at other people's faces and be bullied?"
She just thought about what everyone else was thinking about and did what others dared not do.
It's such a pity, she almost succeeded.
If her father had not insisted on sending her to the palace, she would have married her childhood sweetheart, her cousin.
Give him children, take care of the household for him, and be loving and harmonious with him, instead of being trapped in the harem trying every way to get to the top and living a life neither human nor ghost.
"Your Majesty, I don't want to frame the Queen, but aren't these illusions given to me by you?"
If he had not repeatedly ignored and criticized the Queen, how could she have developed such ambitions.
After ten years in the palace, from a little beauty to the mistress of the palace, she was only one step away from having a son to reach the top.
What a pity.