"Your Highness, I pay my respects to you."
Zhou Beichen frowned. Looking at Zhou Beichen's imposing appearance without anger, the angry look that Concubine Xian gave her, and the imperial doctors in the hall, all kneeling on the ground, motionless, the queen's heart skipped a beat and she had a bad premonition.
"Queen, what else do you have to say? Look at the good things you have done."
A cold voice came, and Zhou Beichen slammed the table. The queen tried hard to smile to maintain her gentleness.
She prayed in her heart that Zhou Beichen had no idea what she had done.
"Your Majesty, I have been under house arrest these days. I really don't know what has happened. I beg Your Majesty to understand what I should say or admit."
"Also, someone in the harem has taken advantage of having three children to gossip about me in front of the Emperor. Once they have children, they have a weakness, and at the same time, ambition. Concubine Hui must be relying on her three children to dare to speak ill of me to the Emperor. Her ultimate goal is to take my position as Empress. The Emperor should severely punish such a person."
Her heart was pounding, but the queen remained calm when questioning people.
In just a few words, tears fell like rain, making people feel pity for her.
Shen Nian’an: “…”
Queen, you are such a nice person. You don’t forget me even at this time.
After glaring at the queen, Shen Nian'an knelt down aggrievedly, knocking his head with a "bang bang bang" sound.
"Your Majesty, the heavens can bear witness to my feelings for you, and the sun and the moon can testify to them. Although I have children, I have never been disrespectful to the Empress. How dare I have any inappropriate thoughts about the position of Empress? Please understand."
When the queen saw that Zhou Beichen didn't say anything, she felt that the situation was not good and started crying with tears and snot.
"Your Majesty, I really don't know what I can say. I haven't done anything wrong. Please help me."
“Wuwuwu…”
Shen Nian paused, "You queen, you are really playing dumb."
“Bang, bang, bang!”
After knocking his head more than twenty times in one breath, Shen Nian'an almost knocked himself unconscious. Zhou Beichen really couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he glared at the queen who was howling like ghosts and wolves.
"Okay, please stop crying. I've gotten used to your acting these days."
Acting drama?
With just one sentence, the queen was so shocked that she forgot to cry. She and the emperor had been married for ten days and had been in love for a hundred days, but the emperor asked how he could say that to her.
"Your Majesty, I didn't. What I said was sincere."
Zhou Beichen was too lazy to pay attention to her. He picked up the bag of medicine residue that the imperial physician had examined from the table and threw it on the queen's head.
"You didn't, huh! Look at this! This is the medicine you gave to all my concubines to induce them to get pregnant early. You actually gave it to them secretly to prevent me from finding out. Queen, you are so brave."
Zhou Beichen was furious and walked straight forward to slap the queen. After a crisp and earth-shaking sound, the queen fell to the ground. She covered her red and swollen face, looked at Zhou Beichen in disbelief, and burst into tears.
"Your Majesty, I have been with you for ten years. Even if I have not made any contributions, I have worked hard. How can you treat me like this now?"
The emperor slapped her in front of so many people. Did he really not give her any face at all?
With a cold snort, Zhou Beichen helped Shen Nian'an, who was kowtowing "bang bang bang", to his feet. Seeing the redness and swelling on her forehead, Zhou Beichen yelled.
"Where are the imperial doctors? Come over here and take a look at Concubine Hui's forehead. What do you think?"
Watching the imperial physician carefully treating Shen Nian'an and Zhou Beichen's worried eyes, the queen was jealous and crazy. Why? On what basis did this happen? In order to get the position of queen and for her Chen Lang, she paid so much, but why did Shen Nian'an come so easily to her?
"Your Majesty, Concubine Hui's forehead is fine."
Shen Nian'an was a little embarrassed. Zhou Beichen waved his hand, signaling the imperial physician to go down, and threatened again.
"You must not spread the news of what happened today, or I will kill all nine generations of his clan."
"Yes, yes, I understand. I will obey your command."
The ministers wiped the sweat from their foreheads and left quickly.
The queen looked at everything in front of her, tears blurred her eyes again, she crawled towards Zhou Beichen, pushed Shen Nian'an away regardless of her status, and hugged his thighs herself.
He spoke with tears in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, do you know? I know this. On the second day after I married you, you tricked me into drinking a potion that would render me infertile for life. At that time, I only wanted to follow you wholeheartedly and be your eternal wife. So, when I drank the potion, I did so without hesitation, willingly."
Zhou Beichen's expression changed. Over the years, he always felt that he owed this woman. It was all because of him that this woman could never have her own biological child.
The Queen twitched, looked up at his cold expression, and continued.
"I know that the Emperor gave me that medicine because he was afraid that the Ye family would become too powerful to be his own. I understand this, and so, all these years, I have never blamed the Emperor. I only blame myself for doing everything I could to marry the Emperor, and for forcing my father to pressure you, a young man who was still young and inexperienced. This led to such a huge mistake."
Zhou Beichen's fingers trembled slightly. The queen's heart suddenly filled with joy. She shed a few tears and continued speaking.
"Your Majesty, I cared about you too much and was too afraid of losing you, so I was jealous and crazy, and gave the sisters in the harem that medicine. Your Majesty, please consider the loyalty of the Ye family and the years of love between you and me. Please forgive me. I promise that from now on, I will turn over a new leaf and become a new person."
Zhou Beichen was somewhat moved. It had been more than ten years. He was not a nobody. How could he not have any sympathy for someone? Especially when he knew that the queen knew that it was a trap set by him but still tried to fall into it, he felt that the queen should not die just because of her unwavering devotion to him.
"Alas, Jiao'er, for so many years, I..."
Zhou Beichen slowed down his tone and actually reached out his hand to help the queen up.
Shen Nian'an felt something was wrong, and her expression became serious, and Concubine Xian immediately knelt on the ground, crying at the right time.
"Oh heaven, oh earth, I, your virtuous concubine, was only devoted to worshipping Buddha, oblivious to the world outside. I only wanted to worship Buddha so that I could have a child. But I never thought that I would never be a mother in this life. I can no longer be a mother..."
“Wuwuwu…”
Queen: “…”
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