Chapter 113 Three-way confrontation
Such a strange question made Pei Tingyue take two steps back. She moved her lips and asked, "What does this mean?"
Looking at the confusion in her eyes, Concubine Shen suddenly felt a sense of pleasure from the bottom of her heart.
This bitch dared to laugh at me, so I will suffer with her.
Concubine Shen pressed on, and suddenly grabbed Pei Tingyue's arm, "To tell you the truth, the emperor doesn't want you to have this child at all."
Pei Tingyue felt pain from being pulled by her and frowned, "What right do you have to say that! Ever since I became pregnant, the Emperor has taken great care of me and even given me such generous rewards. How could he not be looking forward to this child?"
She wanted to break free and leave.
Concubine Shen's hands became more and more powerful, pulling her to stop her from leaving. Concubine Shen's face was full of craziness. "Really? Then did you know that every time you went to the emperor's bed, the emperor ordered people to put a cold medicine in your bath water that would make women infertile?"
This sentence successfully stopped Pei Tingyue from struggling.
She turned her head almost inch by inch, her teeth chattering uncontrollably, "A cold medicine for infertility?"
"Yes, I'm afraid the emperor would never have thought that even after giving you this medicine, how could you still be pregnant with an imperial heir?"
Pei Tingyue's face turned pale and she shook her head, "You're talking nonsense!"
Seeing her like this, Concubine Shen felt a sense of relief, as if she had gotten her revenge. "If you didn't believe me, you wouldn't have asked me again, and you wouldn't have reacted like this."
Pei Tingyue didn't say anything.
At this moment she was extremely stunned and confused.
Concubine Shen exerted force on her hands, pulling her to her side, and asked with obvious malice, "Not only the cold medicine, do you know why the emperor favors you?"
Pei Tingyue hadn't reacted to the previous attack yet when she was asked again. She looked up in a daze.
Concubine Shen laughed: "That rumor is indeed wrong. It's not because you look like me that you are favored, but because you are just a shield set up by the emperor for me!"
Pei Tingyue's lips were bitten and bleeding. She stared at Concubine Shen with blood in her eyes, "Shield?"
Concubine Shen kindly explained, "Yes, a few years ago, the Emperor favored me greatly, which aroused the jealousy of the six palaces. He was afraid that I would be hurt again, so he used you as a shield. You are just a shield, without brains and family background, how can you be worthy of bearing the emperor's heir?"
"Think carefully about it. Ever since you were favored, how much ridicule and hardship have you endured? How many times have you been framed and slandered? I still have to thank you for shielding me from so many disasters these days."
"I don't believe it!" Pei Tingyue retorted subconsciously, but her reaction was completely different.
She seemed to have lost her strength and staggered backwards twice, but accidentally stepped on the hem of her skirt and fell to the ground, tears quietly covering her entire face.
Concubine Shen looked down at her condescendingly: "You don't believe it? Then go confront the emperor?"
Pei Tingyue seemed to have found a life-saving straw. She shivered and climbed up from the ground. Regardless of the dirt on her body, she dragged Concubine Shen into the palace.
She cried and said, "It must not be like this... It must not be like this..."
Concubine Shen looked at the palace gate that was getting closer and closer, and a trace of fatigue appeared on her face.
OK.
Today it is completely clear.
Let’s see who is more important in Ah Chen’s heart, his new love Pei Jieyu or his childhood sweetheart.
When the young eunuch guarding the palace saw this, he didn't dare to stop them and let the two in.
Pei Tingyue stopped in front of the imperial study. Looking at the handsome figure concentrating on handling government affairs at the desk, she suddenly lost the courage to go in.
She was timid.
She was scared.
Liang Yao was guarding in front of the imperial study. He was also stunned when he saw the two of them, but fortunately he quickly reacted and saluted.
"This servant has met Concubine Pei and Concubine Shen."
The sudden sound in the hall successfully made Xie Chen look up.
The first time he saw Pei Tingyue, her face was covered in tears, the corners of her lips were bleeding, and her skirt was dirty, his heart suddenly sank.
This person clearly left Chengming Palace safely, but he was only away for half a day, how did he end up like this?
Xie Chen glanced at Concubine Shen behind her and her eyes narrowed dangerously.
Was it Concubine Shen who bullied her?
Xie Chen put down the red brush in his hand and ordered, "Come here."
This sentence was said to Pei Tingyue, but Pei Tingyue failed to do as he wished and still stood in front of the door motionless.
Xie Chen frowned and repeated, "Tingyue, come here."
Pei Tingyue turned around and fled in fear at these words.
But after taking a few steps, Concubine Shen pulled her back, "Don't you want to believe it? The emperor is right here, why are you asking? Why are you trying to avoid it?"
Xie Chen suddenly realized something was wrong.
He suddenly stood up, strode to the door, and ordered in a cold voice, "Everyone get out!"
The palace maids retreated in an instant.
Pei Tingyue saw him approaching step by step and started crying uncontrollably. She broke off Concubine Shen's hand and tried to escape.
But at this point, how could Concubine Shen do as she wished and hold her hostage?
"Let her go." Xie Chen came up and ordered in a low voice.
Concubine Shen let go.
After being freed, Pei Tingyue turned around and wanted to run, but was pulled into a slightly cold embrace. She struggled violently, not even caring about status.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
Seeing her crying out of breath and so panicked, Xie Chen's eyes showed a hint of anger, and he asked Concubine Shen, "What did you do?"
Facing the emperor's rage, Concubine Shen felt a pang of pain in her heart.
Before she even started to make a choice, she seemed to have already lost.
I tried to hold back my tears, but they still fell bitterly.
She smiled sadly, "It's not what I did, it's what the emperor did. Can't the emperor see that Concubine Pei is afraid of resisting you?"
Xie Chen frowned deeply as he looked at the person who was struggling and resisting in his arms. He used a little force to hold the person in his arms, then reached out and gently stroked the pretty face.
He was just about to say something to comfort her when he saw Pei Tingyue avoid his touch with her face turned sideways, and he paused with his palm.
She was really resisting him.
Pei Tingyue cried tremblingly in between sobs: "I don't want to know anymore, I want to go back to the palace."
“Wuwuwu…”
She cried so sadly that Xie Chen's heart was a little confused. He could no longer contain his anger and shouted coldly, "What on earth is going on?"
Concubine Shen said softly: "I just told her a little bit of the truth."
Xie Chen looked at Concubine Shen with extremely cold eyes.
He vaguely guessed something.
Concubine Shen smiled crazily: "I told her that she was just a shield for me. Also, the emperor gave her a cold medicine that made her infertile."
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